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Norwegian kick off event
9.-10. of September we held the Norwegian and local part of the kick off events for the CanCode-project. It was planned as a physical event to be held in May, but then postponed. The workshop was also held in the frame of the long-standing seminar on Islamic law in Bergen.
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Published: 16.09.2021
In the CanCode project we so far held several kick-off events. The first were a series of interviews with leading scholars in the field (here) and two Zoom webinar panels (with recording here).
Program
Thursday 09.09
- Eirik Hovden: “CanCode-prosjektet: En introduksjon
- ”Monika Lindbekk: “Codifying Family Relations: the case of Egypt”
- Olav Elgvin: “Islam på norsk: Oversettelse og kanoniseringsprosesser”
- Niels Vinding: “‘Producing Sharia in Context’ A presentation”
- Lena Larsen: “‘New Directions in Islamic Thought: The Best Interest of the Child’ - the project”
- Amund Bjorsnes: “Codification as Semantic Barrier: Some Examples from the Koran.”
- Christian Mauder: “Canonized Law, Courtly Culture, and Political Power in Late Mamluk Egypt”
- Knut S. Vikør: “Canonization rather than codification? Ibrāhīm Bayyūḍ on marriage”
- Rania Maktabi: “Codifying protection against harm after 2011: Comparing legislation of laws on domestic violence in Lebanon, Morocco and Kuwait”
Friday 10.09
- Marianne Bøe: “Reflections on the emerging discussions on Islamic feminism in the Norwegian public”
- Ragnhild J. Zorgati: “Tunisia: Sharia - et avsluttet kapittel?”
- Nora S. Eggen: “Kanon og kode i nye kontekster. Refleksjoner omrking bruken av hadith i Covid-informasjonsarbeidet”