Market (Pazaryeri) in Istanbul

Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies at Portland State University

Dear all,

We have created the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies homepage at Portland State University and this has been transferred from Virginia Tech. You will find detailed information at the following web address: http://www.pdx.edu/sociologyofislam/

We have also updated our academic advisory and editorial board.

Academic Advisory Board:
http://www.pdx.edu/sociologyofislam/advisory-board

Editorial Board:
http://www.pdx.edu/sociologyofislam/editorial-board

We would like to post your Islam and Muslim Societies related syllabi on our website, if you would like to send them to us as a word document. You will see other syllabi in the syllabus section of the homepage. This homepage will also help our students to select Islam and Muslim Societies related courses.

Please also visit the new Religious Studies website at Portland State University:
http://www.pdx.edu/religiousstudies/

Dr. Jennifer Schubert from the Religious Studies program is presenting the Religious Studies Program's first public event. You will find this lecture information on our website: http://www.pdx.edu/sociologyofislam/lectures

Peace and salaam to all,

--
Tugrul Keskin

Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies
And Center for Turkish Studies
Portland State University
International Studies-INTL
East Hall 309
632 SW Hall Street
Portland, OR 97201 - USA
Office: 503-725-3495

Editor of Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies
Book Editor of Societies Without Borders

Civilized us, uncivilized them: The Dichotomoy of Imperialism

Turkish Immigrant Cruelly Beaten by the Norway Police As His Mother was Left to Die by the Norway Doctors.

Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies: SUMMER 2009

Classical Social Theory: 9th European Sociological Association Conference

9th European Sociological Association Conference
European Society or European Societies?
September 2 - 5, 2009
Lisbon, Portugal

Friday, September 4, 2009

5A Classical Social Theory: The Classical Canon, Mannheim and Troeltsch

Chair: Henning Bech

Robert Fine: Marx and the Radical Critique of Antisemitism
WARWICK UNIVERSITY

Tugrul Keskin: Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies in Neoliberal Globalization
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Isabelle Darmon: The notions of 'type of man' and 'personality' in early German
social and cultural sciences: lessons from a selective comparison between Ernst
Troeltsch and Max Weber
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Richard Simon: Scientific Specialization as Utopian Practice

The Lion of the Desert: Omar Muhtar

The Lion of the desert: Omar Muhtar

The Most Strange of Creatures by Nazim Hikmet

The Most Strange of Creatures

Like the scorpion, my brother,
You are like the scorpion
In a terror-stricken night,
Like the sparrow, my brother,
You are like the sparrow
In inconsiderable restlessness.
Like the mussel, my brother,
You are like the mussel
Closed tight and tranquil.
You are terrible, my brother,
Like the mouth of an extinguished volcano.
And you are not one, alas,
you are not five
you are some millions.
You are like the sheep, my brother,
When the butcher dressed in your wool
when the butcher lifts his Staff
you hurry yourself to get back in the flock
and you go to the slaughterhouse running, almost proud.
You are the most strange of creatures, in short,
More strange than the fish
who lives in the sea without knowing the sea,
And if there is so much misery on the earth
it is thanks to you, my brother,
If we are starved, worn out,
If we are flayed till the blood flows,
Pressed like a bunch of grapes to yield our wine,
Will I go so far as to say that it is your fault, no,
But for many it is so, my brother.

Nazim Hikmet Ran
1901 Selanik -1963 Moscow

The United States of Corporation

Madrassas in India

If you are interested in Madrassas in India and Pakistan, please visit the following website that is updated by a colleague of mine, Yogi Skand:

http://www.madrasareforms.blogspot.com/

or Islam in India

http://www.islampeaceandjustice.blogspot.com/

Australian Aboriginal Genocide

Forgotten People of our planet: Australian Aboriginal Genocide

Australian Aboriginal Genocide

Public Lecture on the US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan at Virginia Tech

Movie Marathon: Imperialism, Oil, and Religion: American Foreign Policy and Islam, Virginia Tech

Nazım Hikmet - Akrep Gibisin Kardeşim

American Presidential Election

A Public Lecture: A New Voice of Islam for World Peace and Hope: The Gulen Movement by Dr. Hasan Ali Yurtsever

African Movies at Virginia Tech

Panel: American Foreign Policy and Neo-Imperialism in Central Asia

Dear all,

This year, CESS (Central Eurasian Studies Society) conference will take place at Georgetown University and Gary Wood and I have organized a panel on American Foreign Policy and Neo-Imperialism in Central Asia. Dr. Kemal Silay will be a discussant in the panel. You are very welcome to come. Please share and distribute widely, apologies for cross-posting.

You will find the panel information below.


Central Eurasian Studies Society
Ninth Annual Conference, September 18-21, 2008
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/

American Foreign Policy and Neo-Imperialism in Central Asia
Friday, September 19, 2:00-3:45

Organizer: Gary Wood (Virginia Tech. University)

Chair: Tugrul Keskin (Virginia Tech. University)

Discussant: Kemal Silay (Indiana University)

1) Ajay Kumar Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University), “Export of Democracy: US Geopolitical Moves in Central Asia”

2) Azeem Ibrahim (University of Cambridge), “Motivational Drivers of US Policy in Post Soviet Era”

3) Tugrul Keskin (Sociology-Virginia Tech University) and Gary Wood (Sociology-Virginia Tech University) “New-Imperialism and Promotion of Democracy in Central Asia: Case of NED and NDI”

4) Reed Taylor (ASPECT-Virginia Tech. University), “Hizb Ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan: a Post-Colonial Critique”


Peace to you all,

Tugrul

Palestinian poet Darwish dies

http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/index.htm

I Come From There

Mahmoud Darwish

I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.

I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother,
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood,
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up,
To make a single word: Homeland....

Mao to Neoliberaism: Beijing 2008

Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden in China

China is an amazing place to see the transformation that has been embedded in global economic structures. Today, the Beijing 2008 Olympics began; however, the Olympics remind me of Moscow in 1980, when unfortunately, politics could not be separated from sports.

Peace,

Tugrul Keskin

Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter

SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM & Muslim societies
SPRING 2008 Newsletter No. 1