Time and History in UK-based Interfaith Solidarity Work
Published: 31 October 2023
Time and History in UK-based Interfaith Solidarity Work
Date: Thursday 9 November 2023
Location: 4 University Gardens, Seminar Room 203
Time: 16.30-18.00
Speaker: Professor Yulia Egorova, Durham
Abstract:
In this talk, building upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted among members of an initiative of Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I will discuss how my interlocutors thematize the temporal dimension of anti-minority discrimination and perceive contemporary materialities associated with it. Using examples of public debates about representations of Jewish history, I will discuss how in engaging the memory of traumatic past events activists of inter-faith dialogue reflect on their current conditions of minoritization and attempt a solidarity-based vision of their communities’ lives in the UK in the future.
Bio:
Yulia Egorova is Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics at Durham University (UK). Her research has focused on issues in the study of minority identities in relation to public discourses about race and religion and in the context of science and biotechnology. Her current projects explore the experiences of Jewish and Muslim communities in the UK and initiatives in interfaith dialogue. She is the author of Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race (OUP 2018) and a co-author (with Shahid Perwez) of The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India (OUP 2013).
First published: 31 October 2023