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Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and GenderLatent and Manifest Islamophobia5th Annual Islamophobia ConferenceBoalt Hall School of LawUniversity of California, BerkeleyAmerican Cultures Engaged Scholarship, Asian American Studies Department, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Council on American Islamic Relations, Graduate Theological Union, Center for Islamic Studies, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Zaytuna CollegeApril 17-19, 2014April 17th, 2014 ThursdayOpening Session        Booth Auditorium11:30am                      Opening and Welcoming Remarks: Hatem Bazian, Conference Convener and Director, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project  “Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge.”12-1:45 PM               Booth AuditoriumPanel One       State Policies, Violence, Culture and Muslim Encounters             Chair: Munir Jiwa, Director, GTU Center for Islamic StudiesJAIDEEP SINGH, Cal State, East Bay — Producing Hate Violence: Interrogating the Role of the Media and the StateKAMEL MEZITI, Doctor of the Sorbonne University, Paris, France — French « Laïcité », a “modern” tool of stigmatization of MuslimsKHALED A. BEYDOUN, Critical Race Studies Fellow, UCLA School of Law — Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity MELINDA Q. BRENNAN, Indiana University Bloomington — Unintelligible White Bombers: Animus and Deadly Boundaries2-3:45 PM                 Booth AuditoriumPanel Two      Islamophobia, Ideological Conflicts and RepresentationsChair: Mahan Mirza, Dean of Faculty, Zaytuna CollegeSaeed A. Khan, Wayne State University, Michigan — Islamophobia, the Conservative Movement and the Creation of the Muslim Menace Through a Reassessment of Self vs Other Discourse: More “Self” than “Other?”Fatima Dadabhoy, Senior Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR Greater LA Chapter — Islamophobia &#38; Mosque Construction: The role of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and its Loopholes SANA SAEED, Senior Editor, Islawmix — The Viral News Story versus The MemeHawa — Modern Techno-Primitives: Post 9/11 Representations of Suicide Bombers"4-5:45 PM                 Booth AuditoriumPanel Three     Gender, Sexuality, Class and Colonialism in Transnational Latent and Manifest IslamophobiaChair: Zara Zimbardo, Interdisciplinary Studies, California Institute of Integral StudiesPAOLA BACCHETTA, University of California, Berkeley — Queer Trajectories of Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Italy and FranceHUMA DAR, University of California, Berkeley — Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Indian Occupied Kashmir: Queerphilic Imperialism and Hindu-homonationalismFOUZIEYHA TOWGHI, University of California, Berkeley — Latent Islamophobia and the Epistemic Limits of Human Rights Discourse on “Honor Killings”MINDY WYNN TAUBERG, University of California, Irvine — Can There Be Mutual Avowal Between FEMEN and Muslim Women Against FEMEN in the Debate Over Equality for Women?6-7:30PM       Booth AuditoriumPanel FourChair: Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC BerkeleyHouria Bouteldja, Parti des indigènes de la république, France — The European Extreme Right and Islamophobia: A Decolonial PerspectiveZahra Biloo, Executive Director, CAIR Northern California — Growing in Faith: California Muslim Youth Experiences with Bullying, Harassment and Religious Accommodation in SchoolsYaman Salahi, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian Law Caucus — Remorse without reform: the lingering logic of the Korematsu caseHatem Bazian, Director, IRDP, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College — Latent and Manifest IslamophobiaApril 18th, Friday       9-10:45am      Booth Auditorium, Boalt HallPanel Five       Examining Islamophobia in the Diverse ContextsChair: Mahan Mirza, Dean of Faculty, Zaytuna CollegeHUMERA JABIR, McGill University, Canada — Fuelling Hatred: A Critical Look at the Quebec Charter of Values DebateZAINUB RAHMAN, University of Calgary, Canada — Quebec Charter of Islamophobia?METTURSUN BEYDULLA, Ankara University, Turkey — Islamophobia in Eastern Asia: An Example from ChinaANTONIA OLMOS ALCARAZ, Granada University, Spain — Muslim Immigrant Students in Spain: An Ethnographic Approach to Representation of Identities and Otherness11-12:45PM   Booth AuditoriumPanel Six         Muslim Women: Site of Islamophobic Discourse and Citizenship            Chair: Victoria Robinson, Director, American Cultures Program, UC BerkeleyAZEEZAH KANJI, Noor Culture Center and Graduate of University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law — The Stranger at the Gate: The Niqab and Discourses of Citizenship in CanadaJEAN FRANCOIS BRAULT, Paris 8 University, France — Islamophobia Against Veiled Muslim Women in France: Should we talk about VeilophobiaHEATHER RASTOVAC, UC Berkeley — Fraught Frames of Freedom: French Representations of Exilic Iranian Dancer Afshin GhaffarianS. LATHION, University of Firbourg, Switzerland — Stop Islamophobia In Europe?  Don’t talk about Islam and Muslims anymore!Lunch Break 12:45 – 1:45PM1:45 -3:45PM Booth AuditoriumPanel Seven    Orientalism, Othering and the Security State: Structural Islamophobia            Chair: Nalini Ghuman, Associate Professor of Music, Mills CollegeILYSE R. MORGENSTEIN FUERST, University of Vermont — Muslim Subjects and Citizens: Discursive Ties, Lingering Orientalism, and IslamophobiasDEEPA KUMAR, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Rutgers University — The image of the "Muslim enemy" in the WestVARSHA BASHEER, University of Kerala, India — Cracks in ‘Secular Modernity’: Exploring Orientalism and its Indian ImplicationsARUN KUNDNANI, New York University and John Jay and Queens Colleges, NY — Racialization and radicalization: Islamophobia and the surveillance of Muslims in the US4:00-5:45 PM Booth AuditoriumPanel Eight     Manifest Islamophobia and the Shaping Public ConsciousnessChair: Som Pourfarzaneh, Associate Direct, GTU Center for Islamic StudiesAHMET TEMEL, University of California, Santa Barbara — Shariaphobia, A Recurring Obession: Sharia as a Means to Justify IslamophobiaNANCY A. KHALIL, Harvard University — Jihad: American Media and Muslim TheologyALEJANDRO BEUTEL, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding — What Makes a Coalition Effective? Three Cases of “Success”: Implications for American Muslims and their Advocate AlliesSAHER SELOD, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts — Flying While Muslim: Muslim American Men and Women’s Racial Experiences in U.S. AirportsDinner Break6:00 – 7:15 PM7:30 – 9:30PM           2401 Le Conte, BerkeleyLen Conte, Zaytuna CollegeSongs for the Spirit ConcertThe Aswat Sacred Music Ensemblehttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/566882The Aswat Sacred Music Ensemble is the sacred music arm of Aswat, the Bay Area's premier Arab music ensemble.The musical voice of Arab America in the Bay Area is Aswat, which is sponsored by Zawaya. True to Zawaya's commitment to pluralism and inclusion, Aswat is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious music ensemble that reaches out to the diverse Bay Area community with folkloric, classical, contemporary, and sacred Arab music. Aswat's doors remain open to all who want to participate in the exciting, enriching exchange between Arab Americans and other communities through the universal language of music. For more information about Aswat, please visit www.zawaya.org.&#160;April 19th, Saturday9:00-10:45AM           Booth AuditoriumPanel Nine      Media, Public Policy and Case Studies of ResponsesChair: Munir Jiwa, Director, GTU Center for Islamic StudiesCOLIN McLAUGHLIN-ALCOCK, University of California, Irvine — Al-Jazeera and the Lara Logan Story: Power and Positionality in American News Coverage of the Arab SpringKALIA ABIADE, Center for New Community, Chicago, IL — Following the Anti-Immigrant Roadmap: Using Fear and Security Rhetoric to Win State-Level Policy FightsCHLOE DIAMOND-LENOW, University of California, Santa Barbara — Constructing the Human(e) and Inhuman(e): “Savings” Dogs from Iraq11:00-12:45PM         Booth AuditoriumPanel Ten       Islamophobia in Australia, Austria, Belgium and the UK    Chair: Elsadig Elsheikh, Haas Institute for Fair and Inclusive Society, UC BerkeleyHALIM RANE, Griffith University, Australia — Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Australia: Media, Policy and Public OpinionFARID HAFEZ, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University — Commemorating 100 Years of Islam in Austria: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of a Tolerant Austrian ‘we’ During the ‘Islamic Commemorative Year’ in 2012.CORINNEE TORREKENS, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium — Rising Islamophobia in Belgium: How Muslims (Counter-)React?HISHAM AIDI, Columbia University — FAVELA (CRESCENT) RISING: Funkeiros, Orishas and Afro-Brazilian Muslim ProtesLunch Break2- 3:45PM      Booth AuditoriumPanel Eleven   Islamophobia Through Muslim EyesChair: Colleen Keyes, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, Zaytuna CollegeFAROOQ HASSAN, Visiting Researcher at ACMCU Georgetown University — American Muslim Minority: Victims of Islamophobia of a Pluralistic Society in the 21st CenturyITRATH SYED, Simon Fraser University, Canada — Religiously Marked Bodies in the Multicultural SpaceJILL CLARK &#38; BRADEN STUART, Solomon College, USA — “I Wouldn’t Want Him in My House:” Manifesting Islamophobia on a College CampusMAHA JACOBS, California State University, East Bay — The Meme of the “Ungrateful” Muslims4-5:45 PM      Booth AuditoriumPanel Twelve  Racism and Islamophobia: What is the Connection?Chair: Ustadh Abdullah Ali, Faculty, Zaytuna CollegeBENJAMIN OPRATKO — “…two entirely different things”? Concepts of Racism in Recent Literature on Islamophobia WILLIAM  BARYłO — Muslim Charities in Europe : redefining a positive image of Islam in the public sphere at a grassroots level. Case study of France and Poland.NADIA MOHAMMAD, Editor at Altmuslimah.com — Waiting for our turn: Beyond "hoodies and hijabs"IBRAHIM BECHROURI — The Institutionalization of Islamophobia: What Narratives led to the Surveillance Program of Muslim of the NYPD?&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;