April 21-22, 2011
All sessions begin at 9 am

University of California, Berkeley
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Law School

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
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Thursday April 21st, 2011

9:00 am – Opening Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Center for Race & Gender Welcoming Remarks
Papa Toumané Ndiaey, ISESCO Representative
Dr. Hatem Bazian, IRDP Director and Conference Convener

9:30 -11:00 am – Race and Racism in US Election: Wedge Issue and Who Benefits?
Prof. Abdulkader H. Sinno, Indiana University
Prof. Ling-Chi Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Shakir, Zaytuna College
Moderator: Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley

11:15am-12:45PM – Producing Islamophobia and Fomenting Fear
Thomas Cincotta, Public Research Associates
Max Blumenthal, the Nation Institute
Arzu Merali is Director of Research for the Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK)
Moderator: Wajahat Ali, Research and Writer at Center for American Progress

LUNCH BREAK

1:30- 3PM – Islamophobia Production in Europe
Prof. Kwame Nimako, University of Amsterdam, Islamophobia in The Netherlands
Houria Bouteldja, Founder and Spokeswoman for the Indigenous of the Republic Party, France
Dr. Sirin Adlbi Sibai Researcher in the Mediterranean Studies Workshop, Univeridad Autnoma de Madrid
Moderator: Prof. Ramon Grosfougel, UC Berkeley

3:15 – 5:00 PM – Islamophobia, Citizenship, Patriotism and the Security State
Prof. Nadine Naber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University, AMED Program
Prof. Maxwell Leung, California College of the Arts
Moderator: Prof. Marianne Farina, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, GTU

DINNER BREAK

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Thursday Evening Community Partnership Program
Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director
Arzu Merali is Director of Research for the Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK).
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Co-Founder Zaytuna College
Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University, AMED Program
Max Blumenthal, the Nation Institute
Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley and Co-Founder Zaytuna College
Moderator: Prof. Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union

Friday April 22nd, 2011

9:00 AM 11:00 AM – Islamophobia: Media Production and Re-Production of Racism
Prof. Suad Joseph, University of California Davis
Prof. Dina Ibrahim, San Francisco State University
Prof. Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union
Moderator: Prof. Nargis Virani, Arabic and Islamic Studies at New School of NY

11:15 AM – 1:00PM – Clash of Civilizations Discourses and Muslim Otherness
Prof. Ramon Grosfogual, UC Berkeley
Prof. Keith Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Prof. Maxwell Leung, California College of the Arts

3:00 PM – 4:45 PM – Islamophobia and the Security State in Post 9/11
Veena Dubal, Staff Attorney,National Security & Civil Rights Program, Asian Law Caucus
Zahra Billoo, CAIR SF Bay Area Executive Director
Sumbul Ali-Karamali, Author of the Muslim Next Door
Moderator: Prof. Marianne Farina, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, GTU

5:00 PM- 5:30PM – Closing Remarks and IRDP Future Plans
Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley

Sponsoring Organizations: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Institute of International Studies, GTU Center for Islamic Studies, Zaytuna College, American Cultures Engaged Scholarship, SFSU Arab and Muslims Ethnicities and Diaspora Initiative, Boalt Law School Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law and American Muslims for Palestine