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Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images and Representations


Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images and Representations

Date: 
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 9:00am - Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 5:30pm
present
Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: 
Symbols, Images and Representations
April 20-21, 2012
Booth Auditorium
UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
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PROGRAM
Friday April 20th, 2012
Opening and Welcoming Remarks 9:00am
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, CRG Welcoming Remarks           
Dr. Hatem Bazian, IRDP and Conference Convener         
Keynote:   9:30 -10:30am
Professor Tariq Ramadan
“A Global Perspective on Constructing Muslim Otherness.”

Panel  1   10:30am-12:15 PM
Images and Representation of Islam and Muslims
Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
"Seeing Time: Visual Culture in the Drone Wars."
Sumbul Ali-Karamali,
Countering Media Frames
Prof. Munir Jiwa, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union
“Framing/Reframing: The Five ‘Media Pillars’ of Islam and the Limits of the American Imaginary”
Som Pourfarzaneh, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Theological Union
"Countering Stereotypes with Social Media: Muslim Cultural Producers in the United States."
Chair: Dr. Mahan Mirza, Zaytuna College
Lunch Break  12:30-2:00 PM
Panel 2   2:00- 3:45 PM
Europe’s Islamophobia: Contested Identities, Immigration and Racism
Prof. Sandew Hiro, International Institute of Scientific Studies, Amsterdam
"Islamophobia in the Netherlands and Anti-Black Racism"
 Houria Bouteldja, Dialeg Global Institute, Barcelona and Paris
"Islamophobia in France"
Dr. Nadia Fadil, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven-Belgium, visiting scholar UC Berkeley
"Breaking the Taboo of Multiculturalism: The Belgian Left and Islam"
Jason van Boom, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Theological Union
"Breivik and Islamophobic Fantasies of Muslim Dominance"
Chair:  Prof. Ramon Grosfoguel, Ethnic Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Panel 3     4:00 – 5:45 PM
Race, Racism and Discourses of Otherness
Prof. Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Racism in the Aftermath of Islamophobia."
Prof. Hishaam Aidi, Columbia University
"Ghettoes, Banlieues and Barrios: The Geo-politics of Muslim Hip Hop"
Prof. Sohail Daulatzai, UC Irvine
"Stepping Razor: Race, Muslim Identity and Perpetual War."
Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi,  San Francisco State University
"Situated Knowledge (re)Production & Epistemic Violence: Can the Subaltern
Speak?"
Chair: Prof. Marianne Farina, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, GTU

Saturday April 21st, 2012
Panel  4     10:30 AM - 12:30 PMSecurity Structures and Civil Rights: Reversing the Trend!
Monami Maulik
“New Kids on the Block: Islamophobia within U.S. Jim Crow History and Resistance.”
Summer Hararah, Asian Law Caucus
SAFE San Francisco Campaign and Civil Rights Organizing
Zahra Billoo, CAIR Northern California Executive Director
“Eroding Civil Liberties: from the War on Drugs to the War on Terror.”
Wajahat Ali, Research and Writer at Center for American Progress
Fear Inc.
Chair: Prof. Munir Jiwa, Center for Islamic Studies, GTU
Lunch Break  12:30 PM – 1:30 PM   
Panel     5     1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Theoretical Framing of Islamophobia and Blind Spots
Abdul Hamid Robinson Royal, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Theological Union
“Twice Behaved, Twice Erased: Islamophobia and the Black Body.”
Prof. Ramon Grosfoguel, UC Berkeley
Five Hundred Twenty Years of Islamophobia in the West (1492 to 2012): From the Early Modern Period until Today.
Imam Zaid Shakir, Zaytuna College
“Islamophobia as a Race Marker and the “First Muslim President.”
Yaser Ali, UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
“Shariah and Citizenshp: Institutionalizing Fear-How Islamophobia is Creating a Second-Class Citizenry in America.”
Chair: Dr. Hatem Bazian, IRDP, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
Panel     6         3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Islamophobia Implications on the Otherized Subjects
Prof S. Sayyid, University of South Australia
"A Measure of Islamophobia".
Prof. Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF; Chief, Medical Psychology, UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center
“The psychological impact of ongoing Islamophobia and law enforcement harassment.”
Yasmeen Daifallah, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley
“Media Discourse Analysis on Egyptian Revolution and Islamophobia.”
Dr. Ayesha Al Rifai, Dean of Education Sciences Faculty and Principal of Ramallah Women Training Center at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Ramallah- West Bank /Palestine.
“Islamophobia in the Palestinian Context.”
Chair: Dr. Mahan Mirza, Zaytuna College
Closing Remarks  5:00 PM- 5:30 PM
Dr. Hatem Bazian, IRDP, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College

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