Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Laboratory Sciences Building Parking available in Millbrook Garage 5:30 p.m. | Reception Rettner Gallery Muslims in the West: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities 6:00 p.m. | Presentation followed by Q&A Jerzewiak Family Auditorium, Room 300 RSVP by Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Teri Brickey | [email protected] alumni.artsci.wustl.edu | (314) 935-5224 Lab Sciences Building Please place this card on your dashboard to avoid ticketing. Yellow zones only; not valid in metered spaces or in the Danforth University Center parking garage. Featured Speaker: John R. Bowen Join distinguished faculty member John Bowen for an exclusive discussion about the myths, challenges, and opportunities surrounding Muslims in the West. Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences John R. Bowen has been studying Islam and society in Indonesia since the late 1970s, and since 2001 has worked in France, England, and North America on problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular on contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and civil law. His most recent book on Indonesia is Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (Cambridge, 2003). His Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves (Princeton, 2007) concerned debates in France on Islam and laïcité. Can Islam be French? (Princeton, 2010) treated Muslim debates and institutions in France and appeared in French in 2011. A New Anthropology of Islam from Cambridge and Blaming Islam from MIT Press appeared in 2012, and European States and their Muslim Citizens from Cambridge in late 2013. He is currently writing Shari’a in Britain, to appear from Princeton. He also writes regularly for The Boston Review, and for media in France, Britain, and the United States. Awarded a Guggenheim prize in 2012, Professor Bowen serves as a recurrent Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. 7425 Forsyth Blvd. Campus Box 1202 St. Louis, MO 63105