Beyond Islamophobia
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 7 June 2014Time: 10:00 AM
Finishes: 8 June 2014Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Conference
The conference will seek to identify possible paths beyond the current impasse, thinking about what is needed for Islam and Muslims to gain greater acceptance in civil society, how understand can emerge, and how trust can replace mistrust in intercultural relations.
Programme
| Time | Speaker's Name and Panel | |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 7 June 2014 | ||
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Registration | |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 10.00 -11.00 | Panel 1: Islamophobia, the Law and the State | |
| Maleiha Malik, Sharia Courts, Minority Legal Orders and Liberal Democracy | ||
| Houria Bouteldja, Islamophobia is a state racism | ||
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Panel 2: Historical Roots of Islamophobia | |
| Peter Gottschalk, Islamophobia: An Imperial Inheritance | ||
| AbdoolKarim Vakil, Present at the Creation?: Islamophobia and the Making of Muslims | ||
| 12.15 - 1.45 | Lunch | |
| 1.45 - 2.45 | Panel 3: Education and Community Empowerment | |
| Sarah Soyei, Creating Critical Thinkers: Educating Young People to Reject Islamophobia | ||
| Shenaz Bunglawala, Engaging Communities in Challenging Islamophobia? | ||
| 2.45 - 3.00 | Break | |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Panel 4: Challenging Islamophobia: Gender and Art | |
| Amina Yaqin, Intercultural and familial tales of trust and mistrust: the “halal” romance of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret | ||
| Madeline Clements, Seeing Beyond? Engagements with Islamophobia in Pakistani art exhibited in Britain in the post-9/11 decade | ||
| 4.00 - 4.15 | Faiza Butt introduces Second Glance/Double Take art exhibition | |
| 4.15 - 6.00 | Salah D. Hassan introduces Migrations of Islam: Muslim American Cultural Expression in the 21st Century | |
| Sunday 8 June 2014 | ||
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Registration | |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Panel 5: Islamophobia and Governmental Policy | |
| Chris Allen, Islamophobia in the British Policy Spaces: in retrospect and prospect | ||
| Nathan Lean, A Manufactured Prejudice: The Three ‘I’s of Islamophobia in America | ||
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Panel 6: Internet and New Media | |
| Fiyaz Mughal, On-line Hatred & Anti-Muslim Prejudice | ||
| Asmaa Soliman,Young Muslims in Germany and their Usage of New Media to Counter Islamophobia | ||
| 12.15 - 1.30 | Lunch | |
| 1.30 - 2.45 | Keynote Address | |
| John L. Esposito, Islam, Islamophobia & the Role Media in America | ||
| 2.45 - 3.00 | Break | |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Panel 7: Islamophobia and Literature | |
| Geoffrey Nash, Islamophobia, Postcolonialism, and Contemporary British Literature | ||
| Peter Morey, Muslim Misery Memoirs: Exotic Suffering, Truth and Genre | ||
| 4.00 - 5.00 | Panel 8: Islamophobia, Race and Racism | |
| Sherene Razack, Law’s Preoccupation with the Muslim Psyche: How Muslims Are Bodies Outside the Law | ||
| Stephen Sheehi, Post-Islamophobia: Islamophobia in Post-Racial America | ||
| 5.00 | Closing Remarks | |
Abstracts and Biographies
Full programme and additional abstracts will be available in due course.
Registration
The conference is free and open to the public. Registration essential to guarantee a place.
Registration is now closed. Any available seats will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Exhibition: Second Glance/Double Take
A small exhibition, linked to the Muslims, Trust and Cultural Dialogue research project's "Beyond Islamophobia" conference, will run alongside the conference in the Khalili Lecture Theatre foyer. ‘Second Glance/Double Take’ brings together works by Lahore- and London-based Pakistani fine artists that connect in both bold and subtle ways with the themes of the conference, which aims to examine the different forms and shapes Islamophobia takes; how it can be understood; and how society might think and see towards the more trusting intercultural relationships that may be established beyond it. Read More
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