Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley invites you to the
Fifth Annual International Conference on Islamophobia Studies:
Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge
Conference Dates:
April 17, 2014, 12pm
April 18-19, 9 am - 6 pm
Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Benefit Concert:
April 18, 2014, 7:30 pm
2401 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA
More info: http://www.islamophobiacon.com/
Download conference flyer: islconf2014.pdf
Download conference program: Schedule for Panels 2014 Final.pdf
Join us free of charge for the Fifth Annual International Islamophobia Conference April 17-19, 2014 on the legendary Berkeley campus, the location with a reputation for activism and for challenging ideas and authority. The theme of the conference will be "Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge," inspired by Edward Said’s work on Orientalism. Latent Islamophobia is founded upon an unquestionable certitude that Muslims trend “towards despotism and away from progress.” They are constructed and “judged in terms of, and in comparison to, the West, so it is always the Other, the conquerable, and the inferior.” Manifest Islamophobia “is what is spoken and acted upon.” For example, the obsessive pre-occupation of everything related to Islam and Muslims, congressional and parliamentary hearings criminalizing Muslims and violations of their civil liberties and rights, domestic and international surveillance programs exclusively on Muslims and Arabs, extra-judicial use of force on Muslims and Arabs, interventions, military campaigns, and policies rationalizing its exercise, are, in essence, what we see and bear witness in the Muslim world. The conference will also highlight genres of scholarly and artistic production over the period of a week that explore the maintenance and extension of existing power paradigms by bringing together academics, thinkers, practitioners, researchers and artists from around the globe who engage, question and challenge the existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations.
Conference Co-Sponsors: Zaytuna College; Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies; Center for Islamic Studies; American Cultures Engaged Scholarship; Asian American Studies Department; Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus; Council on American Islamic Relations; Graduate Theological Union; Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
