The Religion, Culture, and Social Movements Research Cluster presents:
Charles Hirschkind: A Workshop on Ethics & Politics
Charles Hirschkind focuses on religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. In The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia, 2006), he explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.
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Professor Hirschkind is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
For information, contact Josh Brahinsky at jbrahins@ucsc.edu.