A lecture by Yasmin Moll
Ingraham 206
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of anthropology at University of Michigan. She is an anthropologist of religion and media with a focus on the Middle East as well as a practicing visual ethnographer. She is interested in understanding the mass mediation of religious life and in approaching film as a medium of anthropological argument. More broadly, her research is informed by a conceptual attunement to difference and emancipatory politics in nonliberal traditions and within authoritarian contexts. Her upcoming book explores Islamic television channels as sites of critique in the revolutionary Egypt of the 2011 uprising. Her newest research revolves around two topics: a Henry Luce-funded collaborative project with Emory University on the global politics of “moderate Islam” and a co-creative, multi-modal project on Nubian cultural activism and material heritage across Egypt and Sudan, funded by the Humanities Collaboratory.