Abstract
The Islamic Otaku Community (IOC) is an Islamic fan-based community, which encourages young Muslims—male and female—who are actively engaged in otaku fandom to stay committed to Islamic norms and values. Hijab Cosplay can be perceived as a unique site which brings together two worlds, the sacred/ascetic activities of being a Muslimah and the secular/hedonistic activities of the otaku, in which young Muslimah not only choose, appropriate and reproduce characters from Japanese anime, manga and games, but also (re)claim their femininity as Muslimah in relation to it. In this talk, I aim to discuss how Muslim femininity is remediated through the practice of hijab cosplay, which is posted and circulated on the IOC fansite, and how the female dressed body as a mediation of femininity is actively mediated in another medium. Since the goal of remediation is to refashion or reform the earlier version of the medium, I consider the ways in which young Muslimah attempt to refashion and reclaim Muslim femininity through fandom practices. Since cosplay is not confined to the act of costuming, but is also immersed in wider fan practices, I also look at the remediation of Muslim femininity in Islamic Mangaka (fan arts and fans writing produced and posted by IOC members).

1st International Conference on Sufism (ICS):
Building Love and PEace for Indonesian Society “Rahmatin lilalamin“

 Date: Friday, November 18th, 2016
Time: 08.00 – 16.00 WIB
Venue: Room Persatuan, 3rd floor Faculty of Philosophy Universitas Gadjah Mada

Abstract
Acknowledged by UNESCO in 2009 as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, batik is produced through an introspective creative process in which the artist uncovers a truth and presents local wisdom and beauty.  In this way, it can be an effective means to communicate symbols, ideas and messages about peace, respect and interreligious tolerance in order to counter the growing radicalism in Indonesian society.  Aniek Handajani will present her new book Batik Antiterorisme Sebagai Media Komunikasi Upaya Kontra – Radikalisasi Melalui Pendidikan dan Budaya (co-written with Eri Ratmanto and published by UGM Press, 2016) as well as several works of batik she has commissioned in order to encourage public discussion about terrorism and peace.
Speaker
Aniek Handajani is a staff at the East Java provincial office of the Ministry of Education and an English lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Islamic University, Lamongan. She earned her Masters in Education at Flinders University in Australia and is an educator and activist for inter-religious peace. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Inter-Religious Studies (ICRS),  UGM, researching terrorism and deradicalization.

Anang Alfian | CRCS UGM | SPK News
“Kita tidak akan mencoba mengurangi keragaman karena itu sia-sia, dalam konteks negara demokratis, semua punya hak dan kewajiban yang sama”.
Uraian Zainal Abidin Bagir, fasilitator SPK dari CRCS UGM, itu menjadi titik tolak diskusi para pertemuan SPK hari ketiga pada Kamis 6 agustus 2016. Bertempat di Disaster Oasis Kaliurang Yogyakarta, Bagir mengawali diskusi dengan memperkenalkan beberapa pendekatan terkini dari berbagai mahzab pengelolaan keragaman seperti seperti John Rawls (nalar publik), Abdullahi An-Naim (nalar kewargaan), Bikhu Parekh, Tariq Modood (kewarganegaraan multikultural), maupun Chantal Mouffe (“pluralisme agonistik”). Berbagai pendekatan ini memberikan gambaran bahwa metode pengelolaan keragaman pun tidak tunggal. Ide pluralisme kewarganegaraan ditawarkan sebagai pisau analisis dan perumusan model pengelolaan keragaman yang mampu menjawab tantangan Indonesia saat ini. Lantas fasilitator yang akrab dipangggil Pak Zain ini mengajak semua peserta memikirkan kembali paradigma pengelolaan keragaman yang tidak hanya mewadahi kerukunan tetapi juga mendorong ke arah keadilan sosial. “Isu pluralisme tidak semata-mata sebagai isu koeksistensi, yaitu kerukunan dan  perdamaian tapi juga keadilan sosial” ujar Pak Zain.
Pada sesi berikutnya, Trisno Susanto memfokuskan bahasan pada politik keragaman di Indonesia dengan mendalami masalah-masalah hukum terkait dengan RUU Kerukunan Umat Beragama (KUB) dan RUU Perlindungan Umat Beragama (PUB) . Menurutnya, Indonesia menganut prinsip governed religion yaitu agama sebagai sesuatu yang dikendalikan oleh pemerintah. Namun, pada pelaksanaanya hal ini menjadi sangat problematis. Posisi penghayat, misalnya,  tidak mendapat jaminan hukum di hadapan RUU PUB. Ini berbeda dengan pemeluk enam agama yang diakui di Indonesia. Padahal pengakuan terhadap legalitas identitas ini menjadi penting ketika berhadapan dengan kebijakan publik.
Yang unikmenarik, pada sesi diskusi bertema“ Konseptualisasi Pengelolaan Keragaman” ini para peserta tak hanya mendengarkan suara sumbang terhadap kebijakan pemerintah, tetapi juga upaya- upaya pemerintah  yang sebenarnya sudah sejalan dengan kepentingan keragaman, “Pemerintah sebenarnya sudah mengutamakan pranata adat untuk penyelesaian masalah di wilayahnya sendiri,” cetus Fahdli, salah satu peserta SPK. Menurutnya, masalah yang kerap terjadi adalah tidak tersampaikannya aspirasi karena distorsi berbagai kepentingan. Untuk itu, advokasi harus dikawal dari bawah hingga ke atas, bahkan sampai pada implementasinya.
Antusiasme peserta semakin terlihat ketika mereka menjabarkan berbagai perspektif mulai dari peran pemerintah, diskriminasi yang terjadi, hingga berbagai pengalaman mereka di daerah. “Penghayat di Brebes itu gak bisa dimakamkan di pemakaman Muslim,” sebut Wijanarto, peserta dari Dinas Pariwisata, Pemuda dan Olahraga, Kabupaten Brebes. Tak dapat dipungkiri memang, diskriminasi terhadap identitas minoritas masih menjadi pertanyaan yang terus mencari jawaban penyelesaian. Materi pengelolaan keragaman ini tak hanya berusaha membantu khazanah teoritis para peserta sebagai aktivis dan pegiat kemanusiaan dalam advokasi mereka tetapi juga menjadi langkah awal dalam memahami tantangan pengelolaan keragaman yang makin kompleks di Indonesia.
 

Abstract
The establishment of Islamic economics as an academic discipline has been motivated by a belief that the Islamic worldview differs from the worldview of Western capitalism. This premise seems to put Islamic economics in total opposition to conventional, or Western, economics. In the coming presentation, the speaker will argue that such an impression is wrong: although the Islamic worldview does differ from the worldview of Western capitalism, Islamic economics as an academic discipline was established to realize the Islamic worldview and can stand together with conventional  economics established in the West Arguing that each can benefit from the other. The speaker will introduce a new framework for Islamic economic analysis that lays a foundation for the complementarity between Islamic and conventional or Western economics. This new  framework can resolve the dilemma faced by Muslim economists and help to establish Islamic academic disciplines alongside their Western peers.
Speaker
Akhmad Akbar Susamto is a lecturer at the Departemen of Economics and a faculty member at the master program specialize in Islamic Economics, Graduate School, UGM. In additional to conventional [Western] Economics education background, he has a strong interest in Islamic Political Economy, Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance. He earns his bachelor, master’s and PhD degrees in Economics from UGM, Monash University and Australia Nasional University respectively.

Abstract
Tony Albert is a politically-minded artist provoked by stereotypical representations of Aboriginal people and the colonial history that attempts to define him, and what Aboriginality is, in the present. Interrogating contemporary legacies of colonialism that have impacted the lives of Aboriginal peoples in his homeland of Australia, he mines popular culture imagery and art historical source material while drawing upon personal and collective histories. His talk will explore Australian politics in relation to his own art practice. Examining the legacy of racial and cultural misrepresentation, particularly of Australia’s Aboriginal people, Albert has developed a universal language that seeks to rewrite historical mistruths and injustice.
Speaker
Tony Albert has spent the majority of his life in Brisbane, but has strong family connections further north to the Girramay and Kuku Yalanji people of the rainforest region of Australia. In 2004 he completed a degree in Visual Arts, majoring in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, at Griffith University. His work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions throughout Australia and he is currently artist-in- residence at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta.