Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
88 Freelands Road
Oxford OX4 4BT
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Olivia Luce is a DPhil candidate at the History Faculty, University of Oxford, writing her thesis on “Muslim and French Intellectuals in Paris: an analysis of their interaction from 1930 to 1962.” Her research focuses primarily on student migration from the Maghreb, situating the interaction of twentieth century intellectual currents with Islamic thought within the socio-political history of Paris’ intellectual milieu.
Her work deals with narratives of modernity in cultural encounters, the effects of globalisation on the development of ideas and on the perceptions of moral values and collective behaviour. Her work also includes comparative religious thought, particularly between Islam and French Catholicism in the mid-twentieth century.
She has co-organised the conference "The Public Role of Muslim Intellectuals: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges" at St Antony's College with Pegah Zohouri Haghian. She is also responsible for launching the website www.islamicintellectualhistory.com
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
History Of Religion
Islamic Thought
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Islamic World
Maghreb
Specialties
Narratives Of Modernity In Cultural Encounters
The Universalisation Of Social & Religious Values
Global Interactions And Identity Formation
Languages
French (fluent)
English (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2008
| History
| Royal Holloway, University of London
BA
| 2007
| History
| Royal Holloway, University of London
Abstracts
Malek Bennabi and Muhammad Hassan Wazzani – on the fringes of Maghrebi nationalism.
‘An Apprenticeship in Modernity’ – Questioning a traditional paradigm in the study of Islamic cultural encounters with Europe in the mid-twentieth century
