Performing Beyond the Frame: Muslim Comedy and Stereotyping

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Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Wtih Amina Yaqin.

This talk is part of a Public Lecture series organised by Cardiff University's Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK.

Amina Yaqin is senior lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies and Chair of the Centre for the Study of Pakistan at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She has recently co-authored (with Peter Morey) Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University, 2011) and co-edited a special issue of Interventions entitled, 'Muslims in the Frame', July 2010, 12:2. A co-edited collection of essays is currently in press with Routledge on Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing. She is currently working on her monograph entitled Imagining Pakistan and a co-authored book on Trust, Muslims and Cultural Dialogue.

Date: Tuesday 28 February 2012
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Venue:  Lecture Theatre 0.36, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

This talk is free and open to all but booking required. To book a place please register your details by emailing events-islamcentre@cardiff.ac.uk adding 'Public Lecture Series' in the subject line.