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Emilio Spadola to speak on Islam in urban Morocco

Hosted by ITSF 4199: Religion and Society in North Africa

"From Veiled Writing to Technologized Voice: Amulets, Exorcism, and the Call to Islam in Urban Morocco"

Emilio Spadola
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Colgate University

Thursday, October 22, 2009
2:30PM, Room 306, The Gottesman Libraries
Teachers College, Columbia University

Emilio Spadola is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, USA. His articles and reviews have been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, American Ethnologist, Contemporary Islam, Journal of North African Studies, and Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam. His current book project is a historical and ethnographic study of religious power and proliferating mass media in urban Morocco from 1900 to present. Spadola received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2007 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia's Committee on Global Thought.