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When:
April 13, 2017 – April 14, 2017 all-day
2017-04-13T00:00:00-04:00
2017-04-15T00:00:00-04:00
Where:
Inernational Center
427 N Shaw Ln
Okemos, MI 48864
USA
427 N Shaw Ln
Okemos, MI 48864
USA
Cost:
Free
Schedule:
Wed. April 12
7pm: Performance by Amir Sulaiman (MSU Main Library, Green Room)
Thu. April 13
12:45pm: Opening remarks (MSU International Center, room 303)
1pm-2:45pm: Panel 1 (MSU International Center, room 303)
Rethinking Muslim Politics
Junaid Rana (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
A Possible History of the Muslim Left
Sylvia Chan-Malik (Rutgers University)
A Third Language: Women of Color Feminism and American Islam
Donna Auston (Rutgers University)
By Wisdom a House Is Built: Securitized Subjectivity, the Limits of Morality, and the Development of American Muslim Political Platforms
3:30pm-5:15pm: Panel 2 (MSU International Center, room 303)
Muslims and Trump
Sally Howell (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
“Getting Trumped”: Muslim Respectability Politics in Detroit’s Northern Suburbs
Mohsen Mobasher (University of Houston-Downtown)
American Politics and Iranophobia: Immigration Restrictions and Political Mobilization among Iranian Immigrants in the United State since the Iranian Revolution
Nazita Lajevardi (Uppsala University; Michigan State University)
Muslim American Fear, Anxiety, and Discrimination: Behavioral and Attitudinal Shifts and their Impact on Political Behavior in the Age of Trump
Fri. April 14
10:00am-11:45am: Panel 3 (MSU International Center, room 303)
Muslims and the American State
Moderator: Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Reed College)
Religion and the State in Contemporary Muslim America
Mucahit Bilici (John Jay College)
Muslims and the American Constitution: The Rise of the Muslim Sovereign Citizen?
Edward E. Curtis IV (Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, Indianapolis)
Blood Sacrifice and the Myth of the Fallen Muslim Soldier in U.S. Presidential Elections after 9/11
1:30pm-3:15pm: Panel 4 (MSU International Center, room 303)
Violence, Islamophobia, and U.S. Politics
Salah Hassan (Michigan State University)
Landscapes of Anti-Muslim Politics in the U.S.: Organizations, Experts, and
Campaigns
Evelyn Alsultany (University of Michigan)
How Political Liberals Adopt Conservative Tactics in Promoting Islamophobia: Real Time with Bill Maher’s Liberal Principles and Illiberal Muslims
Juliane Hammer (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Still Center Stage: American Muslim Women in the Age of Terror
Alisa Perkins (Western Michigan University)
Muslim Sexual Publics and Queer Politics in America