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In recent years, with the rising global connectedness of China’s Muslims, the topic of Islam in China has become of greater interest to academics, policy makers, and Muslim communities in the West. Rapid changes are now occurring in religious beliefs and practices across China against a backdrop of great diversity in local histories of transmission, socio-economic factors, language and life-ways. There is a clear need for research into Islamic practices in contemporary China with a focus on the local production of meaning.The aim of this conference is to draw together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars interested in the ethnographically grounded, theoretically informed study of local Islamic practices within Muslim communities across China. The conference will privilege sound as the key medium of investigation with the goal of providing new ways of understanding the nature of religious practice, meaning and power.&#160;10 January 20149.00amRegistration9.30 - 11.00amBut is it Music? Chair: Martin StokesArienne Dwyer (Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas); May the Pious Sing?Ma Qiang (Institute for Western Frontier Region of China, Shaanxi Normal University); Calling Adhan or Knocking Bangzi: Changing interpretation of sonic expression of Jahariyyah groups in contemporary ChinaMukaddas Mijit (University of Paris Nanterre); From spiritual soundscape to musical soundscape: Nurjan Hapiz, a brother who sings his beliefs11.00 - 11.30amCoffee11.30 - 1.00pmSound and MemoryChair: Jonathan LipmanAlexandre Papas (CNRS, Paris); Creating a Sufi soundscape: Recitation (dhikr) and spiritual audition (samā‘) according to Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbidī (d. 1542)Mutellip Iqbal (Sociology Department, Istanbul University); Continuity of Musical Tradition: Performance of Islamic Stories among UyghurMaria Jaschok, (Oxford University, Centre of Gender Studies); Women’s Mosque Education, Female Ignorance and Chants to Save Souls: Chinese Hui Muslim Women Remembering Jingge, Remembering their History1.00 - 2.00pmLunch2.00 - 4.00pmSounding Place Chair: Joanne Smith-FinleyXiao Mei &#38; Wei Yuqun (Shanghai Conservatory: Ritual Music Research Centre): The soundscapes between Hui and Han: a report from Linxia, Gansu provinceRahile Dawut (Xinjiang University): The Religious Soundscape of the Imam Asim Mazar festival in Khotan, ChinaMin Wenjie (Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou): An Investigation on Migrant Muslims &#38; Temporary Prayer Sites in Contemporary Tibet of ChinaAynur Kadir (SFU, Canada), Soundscapes of the Mazar shrines among the Tajiks of Xinjiang.4.00 - 4.30pmCoffee4.30 - 6.00pmDigital mediation and transnational flowsChair: Ruard AbsarokaRachel Harris (Department of Music, SOAS); Internet rumours and the changing Uyghur religious soundscape: the case of the Snake-Monkey WomanMu Qian (Independent scholar, Beijing); Islam and Chinese Popular MusicLisa Ross, (Independent artist, New York); Presenting a Uyghur Shrine Festival in New York6.00 - 8.00pmDinner8.00 - 10.00pm  Special viewing: Living ShrinesWith Lisa Ross (Independent artist, New York)Drinks and snacks provided.Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, 22 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DEVoir sur le site de SOAS