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Global Halal ConferenceProgram (Feb. 19-21)Michigan State University Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:30 - 4:00 – Welcoming/opening remarks (303 International Center)4:00 - 5:30 – Panel 1: Re-imagining Muslimness in DiasporaAliyah KhanGood Muslims, Bad Muslims, and the Secret of the New York White SauceAchmat Salie HalaaloweenAlysa Perkins Islam Homosexuality and Sexual boundaries in an immigrant cityShabana MirDancing in front of boys can taint you: Muslim American women on campus6:00 - 7:30 – Opening KeynoteJohn EspositoIslam and Shariah in American Popular Culture: Halal or Haram?Friday, February 20, 20159:00 – 9:15 – Welcome9:15 – 10:45 – Panel 2: Global Halal MarketsElif Izberk-BilginFaith-based marketing and the emergence of the global halal industrySharif IslamThe semiotics of halalSally HowellMosqueing the Marketplace in HamtramckRyan Calder How do we study the “halal revolution”? A map of existing investigations on global halal and agendas for future research11:00 -12:00 – Keynote 2Kecia Ali Redeeming Slavery: ISIS and the Quest for Islamic Morality1:30 – 3:00 – Panel 3: Ethics and TraditionsNathan TaborThe Bottle Let me Down: Intoxicants and Poetry Recitation in 1700s Safavid and Mughal LandsMoustafa ElsayedPermissibility of the Maulid: Historical and Contemporary DebatesTazeen Ali &#38; Evan Anhorn The (Im)permissibility of Jihad and Hijrah: Western Muslims between Text and ContextYasmin MollNatural Pleasures: Ethical Entertainment in the Islamic Revival3:15 – 4:45 Panel 4: Negotiating Halal in the ArtsAlaya Forte &#38; Asmaa Soliman 'Halalising the Arts: How European Muslims Negotiate Religion and the Arts'Peter G Morey '"Halal Fiction" and the Limits of the Postsecular'Leila Tarakji The Halal Question in Muslim American LiteratureAmina Yaqin 'The permissibility of Sufi rock music in Pakistan'7:00 – 9:00 – Keynotes 3 and 4 (Kellogg Center, Auditorium)Ingrid Mattson Let’s Get Real: The Body as the Locus of Ethical ActionSherman JacksonBeyond Halal: Shariah and the Challenge of the Islamic SecularSaturday, February 21, 20159:30 – 10:45 – Panel 5: Law, Power, and BelongingUmut Korkut &#38; Hande Eslen-ZiyaReligion, Discourse and Power, and Haram versus Halal in the Eyes of the Beholder: The case of Turkish Friday Mosque SermonsMohsen M. Mobasher Migration, Religion, and the Politics of the Permissible/Impermissible: Conversion as a political strategy for obtaining residency among Muslim Iranian asylum seekers in Europe and North AmericaLiyakat TakimFiqh for Minorities: Shi'i Law in the Diaspora11:00-12:30 – Panel 6: Halal Meat Industry in International Contexts Shadia Husseini de Araújo“Even more halal”? Interpretations of the permissible and the Brazilian halalchicken industryOliver Leaman Controversies about halal: a British debatePetra Kuppinger Hidden Halal: Notes From GermanySarah E. RobinsonSourcing Zabiha-Halal Meat as an Expression of Piety: Taqwa Eco-food Cooperative’s Care Ethics in Action