Muslim Futures – Muslimische Zukünfte
A one-day conference conceived by Dr. Amani Abuzahra organized in the frame of the Erasmus + project and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. An event in the scope of Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia to Pandemic towards Convivial Epistemologies (FWF AR 679, 2021–2025).
Who has the privilege to dream – and who does not? What circumstances need to be created to think about Muslim futures? At a time when racist discourses and policies are affecting Muslim imaginations, how does this affect visions for Muslim futures? How do Muslims shape their identities and presence in a world that is increasingly characterised by anti-Muslim racism, among many other challenges? Can Muslim Futurism be used as an approach to support the development of future strategies by and for Muslims and demonstrate the important role that art and culture can play in this? In this context, collective imagination processes would be understood as a project of decolonisation.
11:30–12:00 Plenary lecture I: Dr. Thabang Monoa, University of Cape Town
The Future as Our Will to Power: Creating Potentialities for Self-Sovereignty
This presentation immerses itself in the registers of (Afro)futurist thought to think through what might it mean to enact power and autonomy through the work of imagination.
12:00–12:15 Response by Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Conviviality as Potentiality (AR 679), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
12:15–12.30 Q&A
Workshops in the afternoon (registration mandatory).
The full programme and details can be found here!
A plenary lecture by Dr. Thabang is organized in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, head of the research project Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia to Pandemic towards Convivial Epistemologies (FWF AR 679, 2021–2025), in the framework of the Erasmus + project and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Mandatory registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/tagung-muslim-futures-muslimische-zukuenfte/
