The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature

This symposium aims to enrich understanding of contemporary European
literature by addressing how Muslim and Muslim-born writers address the
place of Islam in their work. Where do writers place Islam
geographically, spatially, and in memory? What role do its concepts and
cultural practices play in literature? How large is its role as a
shaping force in literature, and what power does this literature have?
In focusing on these literary themes, we seek to move beyond the
hot-button controversies and turn our attention to categories that
transcend them.

Keynote Address
“Writing as Children of Illiterate Migrant Workers in Western Europe: the Making of Individuality and Integration"
Azouz Begag
Novelist, sociologist, film director, French Minister for Equal Opportunities (2005), Chevalier de L’Ordre National du Mérite, Chevalier de La Légion d’Honne

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Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters.