Come join PAS for our weekly lunch and lecture. Lunch provided by PAS.
Speaker: Ismaël Moya, Scholar of Islam in Africa with the French National Center for Scientific Research
Title: Islamic Fundamentalism from Below in Dakar, Senegal
Bio: Ismaël MOYA is a former economist who converted to social anthropology under the influence of his fieldwork in a poor suburb neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal. He is Chargé de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Center for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology in Nanterre (France). He teaches in France at Ecole des Sciences Sociales and Paris Ouest Nanterre University and in Cambodia at the Royal University of Fine Arts. His current research interests includes money, gender, ritual, social hierarchies, Islamic reformism, and forms of representation.
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