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Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Booth Auditorium
8:30am – 8:40am Welcome & Conference Opening
UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
Panel 1: 8:45am – 10:30am
Title: Muslims and Islam, a Political Discourse
Chair: Elsadig Elsheikh, Global Justice Program, Haas Institute for Fair and Inclusive Society
Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, A Graduate School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore –Un-Tipping the Balance: Understanding Islamophobia in Asia
Yassir Morsi, School of Global Urban Social Science at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
The Reluctant “Muslim”
Selma Muhic Dizdarevic, Department of Civil Society Studies Charles University, Czech Republic.
Islamophobia without Muslims – the case of the Czech Republic
Erdoan Shipoli, E. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Securitization of Islam in US foreign policy after 9/11
Panel 2: 10:45am – 12:30PM
Title: Diverse Manifestation of Islamophobia: A Global View
Chair: Munir Jiwa, Director, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.
John L Esposito, Director of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Islamophobia and Radicalization
Damir Skenderovic, Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Islamophobia in Switzerland: historical roots and continuities
Omar Salha, Centre for Islamic Studies and Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London
Power and empire: re-orientalism of the Muslim object in popular culture
12:30 PM – 2PM Lunch Break
Juma’ Prayers are held on campus at 1:15PM at Hearst Gymnasium, a short walking distance from Boalt Hall School of Law and volunteers can provide direction.
Panel 3: 2PM – 3:45PM
Title: Islamophobia, Settler Colonial Discourses, Violence and Demography
Chair: Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Varsha Basheer, University of Kerala, India
The Lynch Republic: Brahminic Nationalism and its expendable “Others”
Heather Porter Abu Deiab, San Francisco State University
Islamophobia’s Transnational and Settler Colonial Realities: Gaps within Ethnic Studies Narratives
Houria Bouteldja, Parti des Indigenes de la Republique (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, France
Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love
Muhammed Mashkoor, International Institute for Population Sciences, India
The Number Question; Muslim Demography and Islamophobia in India
Panel 4: 4:00PM – 5:45PM
Title: Gender Exceptionalism, Feminisms and Justice: North American Islamophobia
Chair: Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED Studies and RRS/Ethnic Studies, SFSU
Azza Basarudin, UCLA & Khanum Shaikh, CSUN,
Between Feminism and Securitization: Gendering Countering Violent Extremism Initiative in Southern California
Juliette Galonnier, Sociology, Sciences Po (Paris) and Northwestern University (Chicago).
The Genealogies of Racialized Islamophobia: Muslim Converts’ Past and Present Encounters with Race in France and the United States
Zoya Islam, Queens University
Canada, Muslim in Canada: An Examination of Muslim Exceptionalism through the Discourses Surrounding Honor Violence and Female Genital Mutilation
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
Muslim Women, Gendered Islamophobia and the Fashioning of Sartorial Nationalism in Canada.
Saturday 23rd, 2016
Booth Auditorium
Panel 5:; 9:30am – 11:15am
Title: Islamophobia Impacts on Public Health: Theorizing the Field.
Chair: Ahmad Diab, Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Rania Awaad, Stanford University School of Medicine
A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Muslims’ Responses to the Chapel Hill Shootings: Reactions, Coping, and Impact
Khadija Khaja, School of Social Work, Indiana University
The Human Costs of Islamophobia: Countering it Effectively
Hina Tai and Amelia Noor-Oshiro, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Apologetic Faith Syndrome: Conceptualizing Islamophobia in Public Health
Hammad Khan, UC Davis School of Medicine
“Islamophobia: A Case Study on Media, Mental Health, and Chronic Stress.”
Panel 6: 11:30am – 1:15PM
Title: The Muslim Subject in Media Discourses and How to Respond to it?
Chair: Colleen Keyes, Student Affairs, Zaytuna College
Anisa Mehdi writer/educator, Producer/Director, “Inside Mecca,” National Geographic
The Arts and Islamophobia: Countering Otherization
Yousri Marzouki, Aix-Marseille University and Qatar University
Characterizing online negative stereotypes in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack: The case of Islamophobia in tweeting behavior
Rhonda Itaoui, Western Sydney University’s Religion and Society Research Centre, Australia
Islamophobia and the spatial mobility of young Australian Muslim’s in Sydney
Silmi Abdullah, Human Rights Officer, NCCM – National Council of Canadian Muslims
UNITING AGAINST HATE
1:15PM – 2:15PM Lunch Break
Panel 7: 2:30PM – 4:00PM
Title: Race, Racialization, and Bigoted Rhetoric: A Tipping Point!
Chair: Ramon Grosfoguel, Latino/Chicano Studies, UC Berkeley
Iman Sediqe, Sociology Department, Northwestern University
Coloring the Crescent: A Process of Hyphenization, the Intersection of Race and a Racialized Muslim Identity
Saeed A. Khan, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Wayne State University, Michigan.
Intersectionality of the Tipping Point in Islamophobia Discourse and the Tipping Point in Western Ontology: Orientalism Meets Occidentalism
Adnan Husain, History Department, Queen’s University, Canada
The Formation of a Crusading Society (Medieval Paradigms & Modern Prejudice, Part 2)
Elsadig Elsheikh, Global Justice Program, Haas Institute for Fair and Inclusive Society
Condemning the Rhetoric is Not Enough: The Genealogy of Demagoguery and Islamophobia
Panel 8: 4:15PM – 6:10PM
Title: Muslim Identity Formation in the Age of Securitization.
Chair: Khalid Kadir, International & Area Studies, UC Berkeley
Shannon Erwin, Executive Muslim Justice League, Graduate from Harvard Law School and Nancy A. Khalil; MJL Co-Founder, Anthropology Department, Harvard University.
Unmasking and Resisting Structural Islamophobia: Community Responses to CVE in Boston
Mehmet F. Bastug, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University
The Effect of the Perceived Islamophobia on the Identity Formation and Acculturation Attitudes of Muslim Minorities in the West
Robert Beshara, Consciousness and Society Program, University of West Georgia
An Archeology of Terrorism: Islamophobia as both a Fundamental Fantasy and a Counter-discourse.
Munir Jiwa, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.
Changing Heartsand Minds: Aesthetic Capital, Liberal Proselytizing, and Lessons in Civil Conversion
Khemilat Fatima, Institute of Political Studies at Aix-en-Provence, France
To be or not to be Charlie? That is the political and legal question. The various public policies adopted after 2015 Paris attacks
Closing 6:10PM
Hatem Bazian, IRDP
UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
