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14
Morality at the Margins. Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya
Date:
Thursday, 14 Nov 2019
Time:
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location:
303 International Center
Department:
Muslim Studies Program
Event Details:

Morality at the Margins. Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Sarah Hillewaert
November 14, 2:00 pm
Room 303 International Center

Sarah Hillewaert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto- Mississauga in the Department of Anthropology. She specializes in linguistic responses to globalization and urbanization, language and youth culture, language ideologies and semiotic ideologies, language and religion; Kenya, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Her teaching interests and responsibilities include linguistic anthropology, semiotic anthropology, anthropology of Islam, and studies of youth culture. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan.