IISRA 2023 CONFERNCE UC BERKELEY
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall
University of California, Berkeley
May 5 - 7, 2023
Conference Agenda
- Friday, May 5th
- Saturday, May 6th
- 9:00– 10:30 Panel Three-Literary and Cultural Production:
- 10:45– 12:15 Panel Four-Crescent Horizons
- 12:15 – 2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00– 3:30 Panel Five- Transnational Perspective on Gendered Islamophobia
- 3:45 – 5:15 Panel Six-France/ Quebec and Secular States Governing Islam
- 5:30-6:45- Panel Seven-Internalized Islamophobia: Destroying American Muslim Communities from within
- Sunday May 7th
- 9:00– 10:30 Panel Eight-Media, Schooling & Campus life
- 10:45 – 12:15 Panel Nine-European Horizons: Racialization of Space and Practice
- 12:15 – 2:00 Lunch Break
- 2:00 – 3:30 Panel Ten- Securitization
- 3:45 – 5:15 Panel Eleven- Islamophobia and Political Horizons: Structural Unbelonging of Muslims
- 5:30-6:30 AGM and Closing Plenary
Friday, May 5th
9:30 – 10:30 Opening and Welcome
UC Berkeley and IISRA Welcome:
Keith Feldman
Chair, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Leti Volpp
Director, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hatem Bazian
IISRA President, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jasmin Zine
IISRA Vice President, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Salman Sayyid
IISRA Vice President, University of Leeds, UK
10:45-12:15 Panel One- Islamophobia in the Great White North
Chair
Jasmin Zine
IISRA Vice President, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Yasmin Jiwani
Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
Concordia University, Canada
Naved Bakali
White Supremacist Mythologies in Canadian Educational Curricula: How Islamophobia Manifests and is Perpetuated in Canadian Schools.
University of Windsor, Canada
Eve Haque
Public Feelings, Secular Multiculturalism in the Memorialization of Aqsa Parvez
York University, Canada
Hassina Alizai
Learning To Teach While Muslim: Examining Islamophobia in Canadian Teacher Education
Queens University, Canada
12:15-3:00 Lunch Break and Friday Prayers
3:00 – 4:30 Panel Two - Disrupting Narratives of Islamophobia: The Qatar 2022 World Cup
Chair
Hatem Bazian
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Khalid Al Akhtar
The Politics of Narratives, a World Cup as Disruptive
Policy Planning Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Mohamed Abdulla Al-Kuwari
Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup, and decolonial sports-based Repertoires
Department of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Amna Khalid Al-Thani
Islamophobia, and discourses gendering Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup
Department of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Beverley Milton-Edwards
The Beautiful Game, for some not all: Contextual Framing of Islamophobia in Football
Policy Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
4:30 - 5:00 pm - Coffee
5:00pm - 6:30pm: Roundtable on Reporting Islamophobia
Moderator
Munir Jiwa
Founding Director, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA
Farid Hafez
Williams College, USA
Jasmin Zine
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Salman Sayyid
University of Leeds, UK
Elsadig Elsheikh
Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley, USA
Saturday, May 6th
9:00– 10:30 Panel Three-Literary and Cultural Production:
Chair
Kristin George
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Martha Gonzales
On the Discursive Importance of Muslim Speculative Fiction
University of California, Davis, USA
Fatima Van Hattum
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels
University of New Mexico, USA
Rayan Freschi
An Analysis of Michel Houellebecq’s Islamophobic Narratives: nature and impact of an Author’s “effective hostility” towards Muslims and Islam
CAGE Researcher, France
Ron Hirschbein
From Aladdin to Bin Laden
California State University, Chico, USA
Amin Asfari
From Aladdin to Bin Laden
California State University, Chico, USA
10:45– 12:15 Panel Four-Crescent Horizons
Chair
Khalid Kadir
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mattias Gardell
Extremizing the Mainstream and Mainstreaming the Extreme
Uppsala University, Sweden
Saul Takahashi
Citizenship in an age of Islamophobia
Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan
Anna Ardin
Democratic Muslims, Deceptive Islamists: The Portrayal of Swedish Muslims and Muslim organization by the Agency for Psychological Defense 2017-2022
Marie Cederschiöld University, Sweden
Mattias Irving
Anti-Muslim stereotypes in official Swedish documents, Who are the dangerous Islamists?
Södertörn University, Sweden
Salman Sayyid
Measuring Islamophobia
University of Leeds, UK
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch break
2:00– 3:30 Panel Five- Transnational Perspective on Gendered Islamophobia
Panel Chair: Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Where is Nuseiba: Islamophobia’s perpetuation of Missing White Woman Syndrome
Alisha Grech, University of Toronto, Canada
Islamophobia in Muslim Countries: A case study on Turkish Muslim Women
Nisa Efendioglu, University of Leeds, UK
The “perilous Muslim women”
Amina Shareef, University of Cambridge, UK
Kashmiri Muslim Decolonial Feminism and Azadi/Freedom: Indian "Feminist" Filmmakers & Scholars' Islamophobic "Moves to Innocence”
Huma Dar, San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley, USA
3:45 – 5:15 Panel Six-France/ Quebec and Secular States Governing Islam
Panel Chair: Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Secularization of Islam in France: Islamophobic discourses during the special commission in charge of reviewing the bill "reinforcing the respect of the values of the French Republic" Hassina Bourihane, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Law 21 in Québec: “Act Respecting the Laicity of the State” or Institutionalised Islamophobia
Protecting the “Blanchité” of the State?
Zeinab Diab, Université de Montréal, Canada
Islamophobia in Established Liberal Democracies,
Johanna Loock, University of Leeds, UK
Construction of the Muslim Other and Erosion of Rights in France
Yasmine Djerbal, Queen’s University, Canada
Political Football: Anti-Muslim Biased Media Coverage of the 2022 World Cup
Jibril Latif, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
5:30-6:45- Panel Seven-Internalized Islamophobia: Destroying American Muslim Communities from within
Panel Chair: Dalia Mogahed Director of Research, ISPU, USA
Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui, Sheridan College, USA
Rania Awaad, Stanford University, USA
Abed Ayoub, Esq. National Legal & Policy Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), USA
Sunday May 7th
9:00– 10:30 Panel Eight-Media, Schooling & Campus life
Panel Chair: Munir Jiwa, Islamic Studies Center, GTU, USA
Experiences of Muslim Students in Quebec Colleges,
Leila Bdeir, Vanier College, Canada
Let’s talk: Islamophobia Intergroup Dialogues on College Campuses
Fatima Hendricks, Occupational Therapist, South Africa
Grieving the Ungrievable: The Construction of Muslim Subject in Digital Mourning Spaces Zeinab Farokhi, University of Toronto, Canada
10:45 – 12:15 Panel Nine-European Horizons: Racialization of Space and Practice
Panel Chair: Farid Hafez, Williams College, USA
Islamophobia and Conversion: The Role Anti-Racism Plays in White Converts’ Experience of Islam Post 9-11
Sarah Mohr, GTU, USA
Islamophobia Six Zones
Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley
Islamophobia in France and "conspiratorial racialization" through the narrative of replacement, Marwan Mohammed, Science Po Pari, France
"Towards an Understanding of a “War On Antisemitism” – Transnational Policing and State Repression of Palestine Advocacy In Europe and Beyond"
Anna-E. Younes, Independent Scholar, Germany
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:30 Panel Ten- Securitization
Panel Chair: Elsadig Elsheikh, Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley, USA
Islamophobia and the Benefits of and Challenges for Prison Imams
Amin Asfari & James Gaceck, Regis University, USA
Criminology and Islamophobia in Higher Education
Fahid Quraishi, University of Salford, UK
Criminalizing Islamophobia Studies
Farid Hafez, Williams College, USA
What are the consequences of Islamophobia?
Ans De Nolf, KU Leuven, Belgium
3:45 – 5:15 Panel Eleven- Islamophobia and Political Horizons: Structural Unbelonging of Muslims
Panel Chair: Saul Takahashi, Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan
The Sun Rises in the West, Sets in East: Kashmir, Secularism and Knowledge Production
Iymon Majid, Kulturwissenchaftliches Institut, Germany
The Musalmaan of Hindoostaan: Spotlight on Muslims of Karnataka, India
Imran Mulla, University of Cambridge, UK & Karnataka University, India
The Dangers of Narratives of Resurgence: The Myth of Economic Anxiety and the Islamophobic Consequences of an Alt-Right Incursion in American Electoral Politics
Dalia Fahmy, Long Island University, USA
Islamophobic Discourses in India during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case of Tablighi Jamaat, Mohsin Hassan Khan, University of Management and Technology, Pakistan