Hawzah News Agency- UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project is hosting the 7th Annual International Islamophobia Conference and invites scholars, researchers, artists, poets, media producers, activists and community members to attend. The conference’s theme, Islamophobia: Has a tipping point been reached?, is both a question for researchers and a statement reflecting the pervasiveness of bigoted discourses that problematize the category, Muslim and Islam in civil society. Speakers will examine Islamophobia from multi-disciplinary and transnational perspectives, so as to bring a more holistic understanding of the phenomena and the forces acting to sharpen the ongoing otherization of Muslims as a class.
Conference co-sponsors: Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Al-Falah Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies, Council on American Islamic Relations, Center for Islamic Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Islamic Scholarship Fund, Muslim Student Association, Northern California Islamic Council, and Zaytuna College
Welcome & Conference Opening
Panel 1
Title: Muslims and Islam, a Political Discourse
Un-Tipping the Balance: Understanding Islamophobia in Asia
The Reluctant "Muslim"
Islamophobia without Muslims – the case of the Czech Republic
Securitization of Islam in US foreign policy after 9/11
Panel 2:
Title: Diverse Manifestation of Islamophobia: A Global View
Islamophobia and Radicalization
Islamophobia in Switzerland: historical roots and continuities
Power and empire: re-orientalism of the Muslim object in popular culture
Panel 3:
Title: Islamophobia, Settler Colonial Discourses, Violence and Demography
The Lynch Republic: Brahminic Nationalism and its expendable “Others”
Islamophobia’s Transnational and Settler Colonial Realities: Gaps within Ethnic Studies Narratives
Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love
What CVE looks like in the Muslim community?
Panel 4:
Title: Gender Exceptionalism, Feminisms and Justice: North American Islamophobia
Between Feminism and Securitization: Gendering Countering Violent Extremism Initiative in Southern California
The Genealogies of Racialized Islamophobia: Muslim Converts’ Past and Present Encounters with Race in France and the United States
Muslim Women, Gendered Islamophobia and the Fashioning of Sartorial Nationalism in Canada.
Panel 5:
Title: Islamophobia Impacts on Public Health: Theorizing the Field.
A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Muslims' Responses to the Chapel Hill Shootings: Reactions, Coping, and Impact
The Human Costs of Islamophobia: Countering it Effectively
Apologetic Faith Syndrome: Conceptualizing Islamophobia in Public Health
"Islamophobia: A Case Study on Media, Mental Health, and Chronic Stress.”
Panel 6:
Title: The Muslim Subject in Media Discourses and How to Respond to it?
The Arts and Islamophobia: Countering Otherization
Characterizing online negative stereotypes in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack: The case of Islamophobia in tweeting behavior
Islamophobia and the spatial mobility of young Australian Muslim’s in Sydney
Uniting Against Hate: Challenging Islamophobia in the Media, the Courts, and the Public Sphere
Panel 7:
Title: Race, Racialization, and Bigoted Rhetoric: A Tipping Point!
Coloring the Crescent: A Process of Hyphenization, the Intersection of Race and a Racialized Muslim Identity
Intersectionality of the Tipping Point in Islamophobia Discourse and the Tipping Point in Western Ontology: Orientalism Meets Occidentalism
The Formation of a Crusading Society (Medieval Paradigms & Modern Prejudice, Part 2)
Condemning the Rhetoric is Not Enough: The Genealogy of Demagoguery and Islamophobia
Panel 8:
Title: Muslim Identity Formation in the Age of Securitization.
Unmasking and Resisting Structural Islamophobia: Community Responses to CVE in Boston
The Effect of the Perceived Islamophobia on the Identity Formation and Acculturation Attitudes of Muslim Minorities in the West
The framing of Islam and the representation of Muslims: A quantitative content analysis of the U.S. print media’s coverage of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Changing Heartsand Minds: Aesthetic Capital, Liberal Proselytizing, and Lessons in Civil Conversion
To be or not to be Charlie? That is the political and legal question. The various public policies adopted after 2015 Paris attacks