24.08.2020 Online ENIS/MIDA Summer School 2020 on 'Contesting Authority: Knowledge, Power and Expressions of Selfhood'

Originally planned as being the ENIS/MIDA Spring School that was meant to be held in Catania in the Spring of 2020 was reorganized into an online school due to the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The aim of the online school was to "address two closely interrelated aspects of Islam in the digital age. Firstly, how (past and contemporary) technological revolutions have informed the performance of selfhood (including gender), the modes of engagement with society, and the political consequences of shifting boundaries between public and private spheres. Secondly, it addresses the construction and transformation of religious authority and religious knowledge production, and concomitant questions of legitimacy, power and discipline, under changing circumstances."