Islamophobia and the end of liberalism?
8th Annual International Islamophobia Conference
Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project
University of California, Berkeley
April 21st 23rd, 2017
Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley
About #IslamophobiaConf
There is a need for an approach to the study of Islamophobia which explores the way in which it is being institutionalized by policies that promote and police a conception of Western societies that appears to be becoming increasingly exclusive and exclusionary. This conference provides an inter-disciplinary platform to reflect and respond to the crisis of post-Cold war liberal order by exploring the relationship between Islamophobia and the reshaping of Western societies.
The conference addresses questions of the relationship between liberalism (and neo-liberalism) and Islamophobia. We particularly welcome presentations that respond to the following themes:
What is the relation between the discourse of take our country back and the post-Cold war liberal political order?
What intellectual and political resources and possibilities now exist for imagining the West in contravention of Islamophobia?
Is the presence of the non-white, culturally unassimilable, rights bearing subject a political problem for western liberalism?
What is the relationship between neo-liberal economic policies and rise of Islamophobia?
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.
