[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere

[Gonul Pultar]

  Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere

From: Salah D. Hassan <hassans3_at_msu.edu 
<mailto:hassans3_at_msu.edu?Subject=Re:%20CFP:%20%5BEthnic%5D%20Muslims,%20Race%20and%20the%20Public%20Sphere>> 


Call for Papers

The 3rd Muslim Studies Conference
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Conference Dates: April 3-5, 2008

Conference Title: “Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere”

Keynote Speakers: Mahmood Mamdani, Geneive Abdo, and Howard Winant

Conference Topic:
“Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere” is an interdisciplinary conference 
sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. 
This conference is one the first forums in the US to address the 
problematics of race as they have impacted Muslims. In an effort to 
understand the relationship between Islamophobia and what might be 
viewed as a Muslim racial formation, the conference will address both 
the history and more recent process by which Muslims in the West, 
particularly in North America and in Europe, have been subjected to 
racial discourses in the public sphere. The conference raises the 
question as to whether Muslims, or cultural characteristics associated 
with Islam, have become the grounds for constituting a racialized 
subjectivity. In public policy, the media, and popular culture, are 
Muslims or individuals thought to be Muslims, increasingly identified in 
terms of racial otherness? Is the classic confusion of Muslim with Arab, 
the confusion of Sikhs with Muslims, and the racial profiling of Asians, 
Africans and Latinos, assumed to be Muslims, indications that in the 
public sphere the category of Muslim is being constituted racially? What 
are the connections between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia? What is the 
history of the racial discourses that have contributed to the 
racialization of Muslims? Can the history be traced to the period of 
modern European colonialism and to US and European citizenship laws of 
the 19th and 20th century? This conference seeks to engage these 
questions and the wide range of other issues that have contributed to 
thinking of Muslims in racial terms. The conference organizers are 
seeking papers that take up this topic from any disciplinary angle. We 
will accept individual papers or panel proposals. All inquiries and 
proposals should be sent by e-mail to: hassans3_at_msu.edu

Salah D. Hassan
Associate Professor
Department of English
Michigan State University


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