Material Religion Lecture Series: “Visual Piety and the Construction of Children in the Modern Islamic World” with Jamal Elias
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Scripture and the Arts program is proud to present our first speaker of 2019, Dr. Jamal Elias speaking on “Visual Piety and the Construction of Children in the Modern Islamic World.” Elias, the current chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UPenn, is a Walter H. Annenberg professor of the Humanities. Using a wide range of visual and written sources, Elias will investigate childhood in the modern Islamic world and explore the way concepts of innocence and cuteness influence social understandings of ethics, morality, and community. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, he will discuss important questions of gender, virtue, and devotion, as well as community, nationhood, violence, and sacrifice. In exploring a subject that has never been studied comparatively before, Elias will attempt to extend the boundaries of our understanding of emotion, religion, and visual culture and provide unique insight into Islam as it is lived and experienced in the modern world.
ScripArts Feb 2019 FlyerCo-Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public
When: Thursday February 21, 2019 at 5:o0 pm
Location: 147 Bay State Road, The Boston University Judaic Studies Center, room 201
Transportation: Closest T stop is the B Line on the Green Line at Blandford St.
Closest public parking lot is at 665 Commonwealth Ave, at the corner of Granby St. and Commonwealth.
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