{jathumbnailoff}From Theorizing Islamophobia to Systematic Documentation
April 19th and 20th, 2013
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Conference Schedule
Co-Sponsors: Center for Race and Gender, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, GTU Center for Islamic Studies, Zaytuna College, Asian Law Caucus, Boalt Muslim Student Association, Arab and Muslim Ethinicities and Diasporas Initiative, Council on American Islamic Relations-National and Northern California, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Department, Ethnic Studies Department, Near Eastern Studies Department, American Culture Program at UC Berkeley, American Cultures Engaged Scholarship, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Northern California Islamic Council, American Muslim Voice, American Muslims for Palestine, Islamic Scholarship Fund, UC Berkeley Muslim Student Association, and UC Berkeley Arab Student Union.
Friday, April 19, 2013
8:30 am – 9:00 am- Opening
Hatem Bazian, Conference Chair and Convener
From Theorizing Islamophobia to Systematic Documentation
9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel One (Conceptualization Theme)
Eduardo Jose Hernandez, Temple University
Divorcing the Other: The foundations of White Supremacy in the Morisco Expulsion from Spain
Anaïd Lindemann, University of Lausanne, Switzerland- Lausanne Use of Islam in the Definition of Foreign Otherness in Switzerland: A Comparative Analysis of Media Discourses Between 1970 and 2004.
Maseeh Haseeb, Carleton University
A Contemporary Applicability of Orientalism within the Unfolding Discourse of National Security.
Itrath Syed, Simon Fraser University, Canada *Muslim Social Media Memes* 8th Panel Anaïd Lindemann, University of Lausanne, Switzerland- Lausanne Use of Islam in the Definition of Foreign Otherness in Switzerland: A Comparative Analysis of Media Discourses Between 1970 and 2004.
Chair: Munir Jiwa, Center for Islamic Studies, GTU
11:00 am – 12:45 pm Panel Two (Islamophobia in the European Context)
Corinne Torrekens, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Rising Islamophobia in Belgium: How Muslims (Counter-)React ?
Esra Ozyurek, University of California, San Diego
Between Islamophobia and Islamophilia: German Converts to Islam and their Relations to Born Muslims
Arzu Merali, IHRC – London
France and the Hated Society: Muslim Experiences
Susanne Leuenberger, University of Berne
“Mr. Blancho, are you the Bin Laden of Biel?” Swiss Converts to Islam Trigger Public Arbitrations of the “Integratedness” of Switzerland’s Muslim Population: A media Analysis.
Chair: Marianne Farina, Dominican School of Religion
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel Three (Islamophobia in the Asian Context)
Arun Rasiah, Holy Names University
Communalization of the State and Islamophobia in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka
Suleyman Elik, Istanbul Medeniyet University
The Rise and Fall of Political Islam: An Assessment for Islamism and Islamophobia
Varsha Basheer, University of Kerala, India
The Secular, the Radical and the ’practising‘ terrorist Muslim: Ruminations on Media-ted Muslim Identity and Creation of Islamophobia in India
Farzana Haniffa, University of Colombo
Minorities in the post war context : Islamophobia in Sri Lanka
Chair: Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Berkeley
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm Panel Four (Islamophobia in the Racial Context)
Oishee Alam, University of Western Sydney, Australia
“Islam is a whitefella religion, whatchya tryna prove?”: Islamophobia and the Racialisation of Muslims in Australia
Hakan Tosuner, European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder, Germany
Discrimination of Highly Educated Muslim Men in Germany
Serdar Kaya, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Anti-Muslim Sentiments in the West: A Comparative, Multilevel Analysis
Houria Bouteldja, Indigenous of the Republic, France
“Islamophobia : When Whites Lose Their Triple A-Rating”
Chair:Ramon Grosfoguel, UC Berkeley
5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner Break
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Panel Five (Countering the Islamophobic Narrative)
Sief Dana, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Narrating Islam: the Counter Narrative
Rabab Abdul-Hadi, San Francisco State University
“Colonial Feminism AGAIN! Geller, MUNI Ads, and Orientalism.”
Anwar Milbes Hijaz, University of California, Riverside
The Affect of Media Exposure and Group Familiarity on Tolerance of American Muslims
Rosemary Henze, San Jose State University
Just a Piece of Cloth A documentary film directed and produced by Rosemary Henze
Chair: Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
9:30 am – 11:45 am Panel Six (Constructing and Institutionalization of Islamophobia)
Maha Hilal, American University
Institutionalizing Islamophobia: The “War on Terror” and the Muslim American Experience
Randa Elbih, University of New Mexico
Pedagogy of Post 9/11 United States: Muslim American Students’ Experiences, Teachers’ Pedagogies, and Textbooks’ Analysis
Guest Speaker, UK
Faith Matters Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks)Project
Youssef Chouhoud, University of Southern California
To Hell with Islamophobia: Framing Soteriological Discourse in Muslim Context
Rochelle Terman, University of California, Berkeley
Muslim Women’s Rights in an Age of Islamophobia
Chair: Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, SFSU
11:45 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Panel Seven (Islamophobia, Law and Public Discourses)
Darakshan Raja, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
The Role of Islamophobia in Shaping Responses to Crime Victimization in the American Muslim Community
Keith Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
How (Anti)Terrorism Went Viral
Sajeed Khan,Lecturer, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Fellow, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Wayne State University
The Connection Between Islamophobia and Other Anti-Progressive Campaigns in the Midst of America’s Demographic Shift
Zara Zimbardo, California Institute of Integral Studies
Cultural Politics of Humor in (De)normalizing Islamophobic Stereotypes*
Chair: Abdullah Ali, Zaytuna College and UC Berkeley
3:00 pm – 5:00 PM Panel Eight (Islamophobia in the Age of War)
Pye Ian, Independent Scholar
“Argo as Pre-War Propaganda: Islamophobia, Incomplete Clandestine History, & Washington’s Marriage to Hollywood”
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Constructing the “Enemies Within”: Muslim Youth, Islamophobia and the Racial Politics of Canada’s ‘Home Grown’ War on Terror
Gilbert Caluya, The International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding University of South Australia
Terrorists on the Couch: Psychoanalysing Muslim Intimacy post-9/11
Tamirace Fakhoury, Lebanese American University Visiting lecturer for summer 2012/2013, UC Berkeley
“Debunking Islamophobia?: the discourse of Arab and Muslim student associations at UC Berkeley”
Chair: Mahan Mirza, Zaytuna College
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Concluding Remarks and end of panel section
7:30 pm-9:30 pm-Conference celebration and concert (details are below).
