Hosted by the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies
WHEN & WHERE
March 25th\, 6-8 PM
SFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hstings Street
Vancouver\, BC
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This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Isl am to shield them from racism. The author explores the joys and sorrows of growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household\, wedding grand historical narratives of colonialism and migration to the small intimate heartbreaks o f modern life. In revisiting the beliefs and ideals she was raised with\, C haudhry invites us to reimagine our ideas of self and family\, state and ci tizenship\, love and loss.
Ayesha S. Chaudhr y is the Canada Research Chair in Religion\, Law and Social Justic e and Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Ca nada\, and a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow. She has held residential fellow ship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at UBC and the Radcliff e Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of The Colour of God (Oneworld\, HarperCollinsIndia\, 2021) and Domestic Viole nce and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics\, Law\, and the Muslim Discourse on G ender (Oxford University Press\, 2014). Dr. Chaudhry’s research focuses on Islamic law and theology.
Catered dinner will be serv ed to all registered attendees. While quantities last.