Dear colleagues,

Please join us for Thursday’s workshop session:

Timothy Gutmann (Divinity School): “Enforcing Intimacy: Tradition, Mass Education, and the Person Question”

Thursday, January 28th, 12:00pm-1:30pm

Swift Hall room 106

Abstract: “This presentation summarizes some of the main issues in chapter three of the dissertation “Traditions and Progress”. Work on this chapter is ongoing. The focus is on the question of religious minorities in Egypt around the turn of the 20th century. The chapter addresses the theme of the enforced intimacy of the classroom and the novelty of teaching across differences. Exploring the interaction of “the [minority] question” and the advent of mass education, the chapter engages recent work by scholars such as Aamir Mufti, Marwa Elshakry, Saba Mahmood, and Kathryn Gines.”

A vegetarian lunch will be provided.