Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media

The 14th annual Muslim Studies Program Conference will be happening from April 8th to 9th.

Register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links 

Organized by the Muslim Studies Program and co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Asian Studies Center, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Science, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Political Science, Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, James Madison College, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, and Peace and Justice Studies.

Thursday, April 8    

8:15am-8:30am EST  Welcome  

8:30am-10:00am EST  Panel 1

• Imed Ben Labidi — Eternally Unwelcomed: Race, Representation, and Transnational  Sanctioning of Racism
• Nofret Berenice Hernández Vilchis — Facing Islamophobia before It Existed? The Case of Palestinian Journalists
• Mohibul Haque and Abdullah Khan — Mapping Islamophobia: The Indian Media Environment
• Giuliano Bifolchi — Islamophobia in Russia: The Role of the Media in Presenting Islam and the Muslim Community

10:15am-11:45am EST  Conversation with Khaled Beydoun and Nazita Lajevardi 

12:45pm-2:15pm EST  Panel 2

• Muniba Saleem — How Media Representations of Muslims Affect American-Muslim Intergroup Relations
• Michael Bevers — Valorizing the Self: Islamophobia’s Inverse Function
• Samaah Jaffer — Before ‘Creeping Shari‘a’: From Shari‘a as the Court to Shari‘a as the Story
• Marta Panighel — Gendered Islamophobia in Italy: The Silvia Romano Case

Friday, April 9  

8:00am-9:30am EST  Panel 3 

• Brian Van Wyck — Competing Islamophobias in Media Depictions of Qur’anic Education in West Germany, 1975-1984
• Sana Aziz — The Iraq War in Hollywood War Films
• Mohammed Reza John Vedadipour — Does Hollywood’s Representation of Iranian Identity from 1979 to 2019 Reflect U.S. Foreign Policy?
• Angeliki Koletsou — Views of Iran in the American Film Industry and Television Series, from 2001 to the Present

9:45am-11:15am EST  Panel 4 

• Russell Lucas — (Mis)representing Arab Public Opinion: Polls or Phobias?
• Nazita Lajevardi and Caleb Lucas — Shifts in Group Salience and Target Substitution by Far-Right Extremists Explain a Contemporaneous Fall and Rise in Hate Crimes
• Sabah Firoz Uddin — British Muslim Self-Making on Social Media: Responding to Islamophobia in Britain
• Felipe Freitas de Souza — Islam on the Brazilian Timeline: Islamophobia in a Social Network

11:15am- 2:00pm EST  Open Conversation and Closing Remarks