Islam, Political Islam, and Islamophobia:
An International Conference
Indiana
University–Bloomington
March
29-30, 2013
Organizers:
Dr. Kemal Silay
Professor
of Turkish Language and Literature
Ottoman
and Modern Turkish Studies Endowed Chair Professor
Director,
Turkish Language Flagship Center
Director,
Turkish Studies Program
Indiana
University
Dr. Tuğrul Keskin
Assistant
Professor of International and Middle East Studies
Affiliated
Faculty of Black Studies, Sociology, and Turkish Studies
Portland
State University
Friday,
March 29, 2013
5:00–7:00
PM • Reception • IMU • Faculty Club • Room 250
5:30–5:45
PM • Opening Remarks by Dr. Kemal Silay, Indiana University
5:45–6:45
PM • Keynote Address by Dr. Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University: “Islamophobia and the Politics of the
Empire: From Neoliberalism to Imperialism”
Saturday,
March 30, 2013
9:30–9:45
AM • Registration • IMU • Persimmon Room
9:45–10:00
AM • Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Kemal Silay • IMU • Persimmon Room
10:00–11:30
AM • Session 1 • IMU • Persimmon Room
Islam
and Islamophobia in Comparative Perspective
Chair:
Dr. Kemal Silay
“Islamophobia, Alienation and
Ways Forward to Strengthen Community Cohesion:
A Comparative Case-Study” • Dr. Valentina
Bartolucci, University of Pisa, Italy
“The Origins of Western
Islamophobia” • Brian C. Bradford, Western Michigan University
“Why Antisemitism and ‘Islamophobia’
Are Two Different Things” • Dr. Gunther Jikeli, Germany
“Islam is the Devil… and so Is
Joseph Smith: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Islamic Blogs and 19th Century Anti-Mormon
Pamphlets” • Dr. Jeff Tischauser, Triton College, USA
11:45–12:45
PM • Lunch • IMU • State Room West
1:00–2:30
PM • Session 2 • IMU • Persimmon Room
Political
Islam and Islamophobia
Chair:
Defne Jones
“The Wave of Arab Spring: The
Impact of Political Islam and Islamophobia • Dr. Zakaryya Mohamed Abdel-Hady, Qatar
University
“The Genealogy of Islamophobia in
Germany: From Woodblock Prints to Contemporary Political Rhetoric” • Dr. Courtney
Dorroll, University of Arizona
“Bestselling Fiction, Political
Rhetoric, and Islamophobia” • Dr. Celene Ayat Lizzio, Harvard University
“Insider Islamophobia: The Role
of Islamophobic Authoritarianism in the Birth and Success of Political Islam in
Muslim Countries” • Dr. Ahmet Temel, University of California–Santa Barbara
2:30
–2:45 PM • Coffee Break
2:45
PM–4:00 PM • Session 3 • IMU • Persimmon Room
Islamophobia
in the United States
Chair:
Dr. Kemal Silay
“Islam and Islamophobia in Texas
Textbooks” • Dr. Tamer Balcı, University of Texas–Pan American
“Something Thoroughly and
Uncompromisingly Foreign” • Dr. Rian Thomas Bobal, Georgia State University
“‘All-American’ Islamophobia:
Sexism, Neoliberalism, and Mainstream Media” • Melinda Brennan, Indiana
University
“The Impact of Islamophobia in
America on Political Discourse in Turkey and Iran” • Defne Jones, Indiana
University
4:00
PM–5:30 PM • Session 4 • IMU • Persimmon Room
Territorial
and Regional Islamophobia
Chair:
Dr. Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi
“Islam and Islamophobia in the
Post–Soviet Countries” • Dr. Lala Aliyeva, Harvard University
“Governmentality and the
Structure of ‘Islamophobia’ in Turkey • Dr. Matthew de Tar, Whitman College
“The Increase of Muslim
Population and the Concern of Europe: The Relationship Between Change of
Population and Islamophobia” • Dr. Tuncay Güloğlu and Dr. Ahmed S. Muhamed, Cornell
University
“Fata Wants the Obilić Hero, Not
Daddy’s Son Bajazit: Musical Islamophilia and Islamophobia in 1980s Yugoslavia”
• Dr. Maya Petrović, Princeton University
5:30
–6:00 PM • Coffee Break
6:00–7:30
PM • Session 5 • IMU • Persimmon Room
Islamophobia
as a Multifaceted Concept
Chair:
Dr. Tuğrul Keskin
“Violent Discourse: Themes in
Islamophobic Polemics” • Dr. Andrea E. Cluck, University of Michigan
“Towards a Multidimensional
Concept of Islamophobia” • Dr. Farid Hafez, Austria
“The Reach and Influence of the
Islamophobia Industry: How a Global Anti-Muslim Network Manufactures Fear of
Muslims” • Dr. Nathan C. Lean, Georgetown University
“The Media’s Impact on
Islamophobia” • Dr. Sabine Schiffer, Germany
“Islamophobia, Sharīʿa and the
Global City: Insights from Sydney and New York” • Dr. Joshua M. Roose,
University of Western Sydney, Australia, and Dr. Bryan S. Turner, City
University of New York
8:00–9:30
PM • Dinner • IMU • Federal Room
The organizers are grateful to
the following units and organizations
for their generous contributions:
Ottoman
and Modern Turkish Studies Chair, Turkish Studies Program,
Center
for the Study of the Middle East, Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies,
Inner
Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
