Fifth Annual International Conference on Islamophobia Studies
Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 - Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 | 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Booth Auditorium, Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley
Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
the Middle Eastern Law Students Association invite you to the
Fifth Annual International Conference on Islamophobia Studies:
Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge
Conference Dates:
April 17, 2014, 11:30 am
April 18-19, 9 am – 6 pm
Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Benefit Concert:
April 18, 2014, 7:30 pm
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA
More info: http://www.islamophobiacon.com/
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Join us free of charge for the Fifth Annual International Islamophobia Conference April 17-19, 2014 on the legendary Berkeley campus, the location with a reputation for activism and for challenging ideas and authority. The theme of the conference will be “Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge,” inspired by Edward Said’s work on Orientalism. Latent Islamophobia is founded upon an unquestionable certitude that Muslims trend “towards despotism and away from progress.” They are constructed and “judged in terms of, and in comparison to, the West, so it is always the Other, the conquerable, and the inferior.” Manifest Islamophobia “is what is spoken and acted upon.” For example, the obsessive pre-occupation of everything related to Islam and Muslims, congressional and parliamentary hearings criminalizing Muslims and violations of their civil liberties and rights, domestic and international surveillance programs exclusively on Muslims and Arabs, extra-judicial use of force on Muslims and Arabs, interventions, military campaigns, and policies rationalizing its exercise, are, in essence, what we see and bear witness in the Muslim world. The conference will also highlight genres of scholarly and artistic production over the period of a week that explore the maintenance and extension of existing power paradigms by bringing together academics, thinkers, practitioners, researchers and artists from around the globe who engage, question and challenge the existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations.
Conference Co-Sponsors: American Cultures Engaged Scholarship, Asian American Studies Department, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Council on American Islamic Relations, Graduate Theological Union, Center for Islamic Studies, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies, Diversity and Social Justice Committee at Mills College, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Zaytuna College
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
| April 17th
Thursday
Opening Session Booth Auditorium 11:30am
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Opening and Welcoming Remarks:
HATEM BAZIAN, Conference Convener and Director, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project
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5th Annual Islamophobia Conference
Conference Theme:
“Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge.”
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| 12:00-1:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel One
State Policies, Violence, Culture and Muslim Encounters
Chair: Munir Jiwa, Director, GTU Center for Islamic Studies
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1. JAIDEEP SINGH, Cal State, East Bay
Producing Hate Violence: Interrogating the Role of the Media and the State
2. KAMEL MEZITI, Doctor of the Sorbonne University, Paris, France French « Laïcité », a “modern” tool of stigmatization of Muslims
3. KHALED A. BEYDOUN, Critical Race Studies Fellow, UCLA School of Law Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity
4. MELINDA Q. BRENNAN, Indiana University Bloomington Unintelligible White Bombers: Animus and Deadly Boundaries
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| 2:00-3:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Two
Islamophobia, Ideological Conflicts and Representations
Chair: Mahan Mirza, Dean of Faculty, Zaytuna College
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1. SAEED A. KHAN, Wayne State University, Michigan
Islamophobia, the Conservative Movement and the Creation of the Muslim Menace Through a Reassessment of Self vs. Other Discourse: More “Self” than “Other?”
2. FATIMA DADABHOY, Senior Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR Greater LA Chapter Islamophobia Mosque Construction: The role of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and its Loopholes
3. SANA SAEED, Senior Editor, Islawmix Memes, Hijabs and the Shaykh: Constructing Islam and Muslims Through Humor, Headlines and Click Culture
4. MAHA JACOBS, California State University, East Bay The Meme of the “Ungrateful” Muslims
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| 4:00-5:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Three
Gender, Sexuality, Class and Colonialism in Transnational Latent and Manifest Islamophobia
Chair: ZaraZimbardo, Interdisciplinary Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
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1. PAOLA BACCHETTA, University of California, Berkeley
Queer Trajectories of Latent and ManifestIslamophobia in Italy and France
2. HUMA DAR, University of California, Berkeley Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Indian Occupied Kashmir: Queerphilic Imperialism and Hindu-homonationalism
3. FOUZIEYHA TOWGHI, University of California, Berkeley Latent Islamophobia and the Epistemic Limits of Human Rights Discourse on “Honor Killings”
4. MINDY WYNN TAUBERG, University of California, Irvine Can There Be Mutual Avowal Between FEMEN and Muslim Women Against FEMEN in the Debate Over Equality for Women?
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| 6:00-7:30PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Four
Chair: Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
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1. HOURIA BOUTELDJA, Parti des indigènes de la république, France
The European Extreme Right and Islamophobia: A Decolonial Perspective Houria Bouteldja
2. ZAHRA BILOO, Executive Director, CAIR Northern California Growing in Faith: California Muslim Youth Experiences with Bullying, Harassment and Religious Accommodation in Schools
3. YAMAM SALAHI, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian Law Caucus Remorse without reform: the lingering logic of the Korematsu case
4. IBRAHIM BECHROURI, French Institute of Geopolitics of the University Paris VIII The Institutionalization of Islamophobia: What Narratives led to the Surveillance Program of Muslim of the NYPD?
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| April 18th
Friday
9:00-10:45AM Booth Auditorium
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Panel Five
Examining Islamophobia in the Diverse Contexts
Chair: Mahan Mirza, Dean of Faculty, Zaytuna College
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1. HUMERA JABIR, McGill University, Canada
Fuelling Hatred: A Critical Look at the Quebec Charter of Values Debate
2. Sumbul Ali-Karamali, Author of Muslim Next Door and a Lawyer Examining the Frames in Secondary Education
3. METTURSUN BEYDULLA, Fatih University, Turkey Islamophobia in Eastern Asia: An Example from China
4. ANTONIA OLMOS ALCARAZ, Granada University, Spain Muslim Immigrant Students in Spain: An Ethnographic Approach to Representation of Identities and Otherness |
| 11-12:45PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Six
Muslim Women: Site of Islamophobic Discourse and Citizenship
Chair: Victoria Robinson, Director, American Cultures Program, UC Berkeley
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1. AZEEZAH KANJI, Noor Culture Center and Graduate of University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.
The Stranger at the Gate: The Niqab and Discourses of Citizenship in Canada
2. JEAN FRANCOIS BRAULT, Paris 8 University, France Islamophobia Against Veiled Muslim Women in France: Should we talk about Veilophobia
3. HEATHER RASTOVAC, UC Berkeley Fraught Frames of Freedom: French Representations of Exilic Iranian Dancer Afshin Ghaffarian
4. Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Decolonizing Racism and the Muslim Question |
| Lunch Break 12:45 – 1:45PM
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| 1:45 -3:45PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Seven
Orientalism, Othering and the Security State: Structural Islamophobia
Chair: Nalini Ghuman, Associate Professor of Music, MillsCollege
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1. ILYSE R. MORGENSTEIN FUERST, University of Vermont
Muslim Subjects and Citizens: Discursive Ties, Lingering Orientalism, and Islamophobias
2. DEEPA KUMAR, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Rutgers University Islamophobia in the Obama Era: Liberalism and the National Security State
3. VARSHA BASHEER, University of Kerala, India Cracks in ‘Secular Modernity’: Exploring Orientalism and its Indian Implications
4. ARUN KUNDNANI, New York University and John Jay and Queens Colleges, NY Racialization and radicalization: Islamophobia and the surveillance of Muslims in the US
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| 4:00-5:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Eight
Manifest Islamophobia and the Shaping Public Consciousness
Chair: Som Pourfarzaneh, Associate Director, GTU Center for Islamic Studies
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1. AHMET TEMEL, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shariaphobia, A Recurring Obsession: Sharia as a Means to Justify Islamophobia
2. NANCY A. KHALIL, Harvard University Jihad: American Media and Muslim Theology
3. ALEJANDRO BEUTEL, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding What Makes a Coalition Effective? Three Cases of “Success”: Implications for American Muslims and their Advocate Allies
4. SAHER SELOD, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Flying While Muslim: Muslim American Men and Women’s Racial Experiences in U.S. Airports
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| Dinner Break
6:00 – 7:15 PM |
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| 7:30 – 9:30PM
Zaytuna College 2401 Le Conte Ave Berkeley, CA
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Songs for the Spirit Concert
The Aswat Sacred Music Ensemble http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/566882
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The Aswat Sacred Music Ensemble is the sacred music arm of Aswat, the Bay Area’s premier Arab music ensemble.
The musical voice of Arab America in the Bay Area is Aswat, which is sponsored by Zawaya. True to Zawaya’s commitment to pluralism and inclusion, Aswat is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious music ensemble that reaches out to the diverse Bay Area community with folkloric, classical, contemporary, and sacred Arab music. Aswat’s doors remain open to all who want to participate in the exciting, enriching exchange between Arab Americans and other communities through the universal language of music. For more information about Aswat, please visit www.zawaya.org.
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| April 19th
Saturday
9:00-10:45AM Booth Auditorium
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Panel Nine
Media, Public Policy and Case Studies of Responses
Chair: Munir Jiwa, Director, GTU Center for Islamic Studies
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1. COLIN McLAUGHLIN-ALCOCK, University of California, Irvine
Al-Jazeera and the Lara Logan Story: Power and Positionality in American News Coverage of the Arab Spring
2. KALIA ABIADE, Center for New Community, Chicago, IL Following the Anti-Immigrant Roadmap: Using Fear and Security Rhetoric to Win State-Level Policy Fights
3. CHLOE DIAMOND-LENOW, University of California, Santa Barbara Constructing the Human(e) and Inhuman(e): “Savings” Dogs from Iraq
4. WILLIAM BARYłO Muslim Charities in Europe: redefining a positive image of Islam in the public sphere at a grassroots level. Case study of France and Poland.
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| 11:00-12:45PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Ten
Islamophobia in Australia, Austria, Belgium and the UK
Chair: Elsadig Elsheikh, Haas Institute for Fair and Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley
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1. HALIM RANE, Griffith University, Australia
Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Australia: Media, Policy and Public Opinion
2. FARID HAFEZ, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Commemorating 100 Years of Islam in Austria: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of a Tolerant Austrian ‘we’ During the ‘Islamic Commemorative Year’ in 2012.
3. CORINNEE TORREKENS, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Rising Islamophobia in Belgium: How Muslims (Counter-)React?
4. HISHAM AIDI, Columbia University FAVELA (CRESCENT) RISING: Funkeiros, Orishas and Afro-Brazilian Muslim Protest
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| Lunch Break
12:45-2:00
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| 2:00- 3:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Eleven
Islamophobia Through Muslim Eyes
Chair: Colleen Keyes, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, Zaytuna College
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1. FAROOQ HASSAN, Visiting Researcher at ACMCU Georgetown University
American Muslim Minority: Victims of Islamophobia of a Pluralistic Society in the 21st Century
2. ITRATH SYED, Simon Fraser University, Canada Religiously Marked Bodies in the Multicultural Sphere
3. JILL CLARK BRADEN STUART, Solomon College, USA “I Wouldn’t Want Him in My House:” Manifesting Islamophobia on a College Campus
4. HAWA Modern Techno-Primitives: Post 9/11 Representations of Suicide Bombers”
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| 4:00-5:45 PM
Booth Auditorium
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Panel Twelve
Racism and Islamophobia: What is the Connection?
Chair: Ustadh Abdullah Ali, Faculty, Zaytuna College
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1. BENJAMIN OPRATKO, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
“…two entirely different things”? Concepts of Racism in Recent Literature on Islamophobia
2. NADIA MOHAMMAD, Editor at Altmuslimah.com Waiting for our turn: Beyond “hodies and hijabs”
3. HATEM BAZIAN, IRDP Director, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College |
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
American Cultures Engaged Scholarship, Asian American Studies Department, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Council on American Islamic Relations, Graduate Theological Union, Center for Islamic Studies, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies, Diversity and Social Justice Committee at Mills College, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Zaytuna College
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