Professor John Bowen
Visiting Professor, Dept of Anthropology

Professor Bowen will be giving three lectures on Islam, secularisms, and law in the contemporary world in Lent and Summer Term 2010. Contemporary Islam is a crucial topic of present debate, and the relationship between ordinary and clerical Muslims and European nation states is of special interest in the U.K. and mainland Europe. Leverhulme Visiting Professor John Bowen is one of the world's leading anthropological expert on European Muslims and has formerly worked on Indonesian Islam. He will be extending his highly-regarded work on Islam and the state in France into the U.K. context and current research will bring this comparative scholarship into focus through a series of Leverhulme Lectures at the LSE.

Professor John Bowen is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis

Tuesday 02 February 2010: Secularisms in Crisis
Chair: Dr Simon Glendinning
6.30-8.00pm New Theatre, East Building London School of Economics

Tuesday 02 March 2010: Studying Islam across times and place: how to compare?
Chair: Professor John Sidel
6.30-8.00pm, Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics

Tuesday 04 May 2010: Islam, secularisms and law across Europe
Chair: Professor Martha Mundy
6.30-8.00pm, Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics