October 15-16, 2020
Online event hosted by Michigan State University's Muslim Studies Program.
Schedule:
Thursday, October 15, 2020:
8:00am-8:10am EST: Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:15am-10:00am EST: Islam and Environmental Activism-Part I: Looking to the Sources
Natana Delong-Bas (Boston College), “Intertextual Scriptural Reading as Inspiration for Interfaith Cooperation in Water Conservation and Management”
Abdalmajid Katranji (Michigan State University), “The Quran and the Environment: The Impact of the Qur’an on Environmental Policy in the Muslim World”
Sarra Tlili (University of Florida), “Ecology of Wonder”
Sami Al-Daghistani (Columbia University; Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; Center for Advanced Study of Religion in Oslo, Norway), “Islamic Sources on Environmental Issues: A Polyvalent Perspective”
10:15am-12:00pm EST: Islam and Environmental Activism-Part II: Assessing Problems and Proposed Solutions
Jonathan Brockopp (Penn State University), “Climate Change in the Muslim World: Starting a Conversation”
Gretel Van Wieren (Michigan State University), “Religion and Food for a Hot Planet”
Lauren Baker (Northwestern University), “Rethinking What Counts as ‘Green’: Contrasting Rhetoric of Environmental Political Action in North Africa”
Qudsia N. Shah (Institute of Ismaili Studies), “Between Expedient and Ethical: Muslim Approaches to the Environment”
Friday, October 16, 2020:
8:00am-9:45am EST: Indonesian Scholarship on Islam, Conservation, and the Environment
Ariyadi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya), “Religion, Forest Conservation, and the Concept ofRahmatan lil ‘alamin”
Gatot Supangkat (Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta), “Muhammadiyah's Perspective on Environmental Management and Protection Sustainability”
Muhammad Tri Ramdhani (Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya), “The Role of Islam in the Cultural Ceremony of the Tiwah Dayak Ngaju People of Central Kalimantan”
Siti Maimunah (Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya), “The Role of Islam in Developing a Forest Case Study in Mungku Baru Palangka Raya”
Atus Syahbudin (Universitas Gadjah Mada), “Is there an Islamic Tree Species?”
Ariyadi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya), “Religion, Forest Conservation, and the Concept ofRahmatan lil ‘alamin”
10:00am-11:45am EST: Global Case Studies: Indonesia, Gambia, and Afghanistan
Karyanti (Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya) (co-author: Lilik Kholisotin), “The Role of Women in Forest Conservation: The Case of Ibu Siti Maimunah of the Muhammadiyah”
Abdoulie Jabang (Michigan State University), “Transforming and ‘Healing’ the Environment: Founders, Migrants, Farmers, Muslim holy men, Women rainmakers, and Colonial Meteorologists in the River Gambia, 1890-1970”
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University), “A Deep History of Water in Afghanistan”
M. Jamil Hanifi (Michigan State University), “An Historical Ethnography of Water in Pre-Industrial Kabul”
11:45am-12:00pm EST: Closing Remarks