Opening Reception: Race, Religion, and Coloniality
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian
Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law, Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Saree Makdisi
Professor, Department of English
and Comparative Literature, UCLA
Dr. Sherene Seikaly
, Associate Professor, Department of History,
UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Asli Ü. Bâli
Professor, School of Law, UCLA
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Panel: Translations/Mistranslations
How does anti-Muslim racism travel transnationally and what kinds of mis/translations accompany its travels? How do local, national, and transnational scales and variant histories of (neo)imperialism, (post)colonialism, modernization, and nationalism inform these mis/translations? What are the uses and misuses of anti-Muslim racism as an academic concept as well as political strategy?
Dr. Zeynep Korkman, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, UCLA
Paper Title: “Turkey Coopting the Critique: (Mis)Translations of Anti-Muslim Racism Discourse”
Dr. Saiba Varma, Assistant Professor, Psychological and Medical Anthropology, UC San Diego
Paper Title: “Injury, Militarized Care & Trauma Publics in Occupied Kashmir”
Dr. Elora Shehabuddin, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Political Science, the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University
Paper Title: “BEFORE Muslims were Racialized: US-Pakistan Interactions in the Early Cold War Period”
Chair and discussant: Dr. Purnima Mankekar, Professor, Anthropology, UCLA
Panel: Race and Religion
In a number of places where Muslims encounter state violence as well as violence from individual actors, they are marked as racially subordinate. For example the figure of the Muslim as the quintessential non-Western, non-Christian Other occupies an important place in the contemporary white imaginary, and in the making of white national subjects in North America. Is a racial logic as readily discernable in contexts such as India, in movements against migrants in Europe? In Israel/Palestine? How does race come into operation through religion? How do Muslims matter when constructed as a race? What is at stake in the slippages between and the collapsing of, race and religion?
Dr. Minoo Moallem, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Director of Media Studies, UC Berkeley
Paper Title: “Race, Religion and Islamophobia”
Dr. Sherene Razack, Distinguished Professor, Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, UCLA
Paper Title: “They think it’s the Crusades all over again”: Islam and White Christian Aggrievement”
Dr. Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor, Departments of Film and Media Studies, African American Studies, and the Program in Global Middle East Studies, UC Irvine
Paper Title: “The Muslim International: an Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Collaboration”
Chair and discussant: Dr. Asma Sayeed, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Program Director of Islamic Studies, UCLA
Panel: Scales of Anti-Muslim Racism and Resistance
How do we forge solidarity and resistance at the face of anti-Muslim racism? What are the strategies demanded by different forms and scales of violence such from vigilante to state violence and from local to global levels?
Dr. Junaid Rana, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, EUI, and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
Paper Title: “Racial Infrastructure”
Dr. Ali Behdad, Professor, John Charles Hillis Chair in Literature, Comparative Literature, UCLA
Paper Title: “Gender and Anti-Muslim Racism in France”
Dr. Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor, African-American Literature and Culture, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, UC San Diego
Paper Title: “(White) Feminist Anti-Muslim Racism in Western Europe”
Dr. Evelyn Alsultany, Associate Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Paper Title: “Muslims and Hate Crimes”
Chair and discussant: Dr. Sarah Gaultieri, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History and Middle East Studies, University of Southern California
Closing Plenary: New Directions in Research and Collaborations, a Round Table
Dr. Catherine Sameh, Assistant Professor,
Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine
Dr. Khanum Shaikh, Associate Professor,
Gender and Women’s Studies, CSUN
Dr. Azza Basarudin, Lecturer,
Gender and Women’s Studies, CSUN/ Gender Studies, UCLA
Dr. Sherine Hafez, Professor and Chair,
Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside
Moderator: Dr. Sondra Hale, Professor Emerita,
Anthropology and Women’s Studies, UCLA