I've just been sent this, which sounds interesting (alas, I cannot attend):
‘Framing Muslims: Perspectives from Britain and North America’
Date: Saturday 5 December 2009
Time: 09:00 - 5:00pm
Venue: MAL 416, 4th Floor,
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street, Bloomsbury,
London WC1E 7HX
Speakers & Talk Title:
• Hishaam Aidi, ‘Moors, Aztecs and Ideologies of Al-Andalus’
• Nabil Matar, ‘Muslims in Early Modern Period’
• Haideh Moghissi, ‘Muslims in Canada: Promises and pitfalls of multiculturalism’
• Kamran Pasha, ‘Islam and Hollywood -- A Muslim Filmmaker's Journey’
• Sherene H. Razack, ‘ “A Culturally Different Enemy” and Other Everyday Expressions of White Supremacy: Reflections on Torture and Muslims’
• Steven Salaita, ‘Barack Obama, Islam, and the Discourses of American Racial Belonging”
• Mona Siddiqui, ‘Islamic law in Britain- past, present and future’
• Tim Jon Semmerling ‘Extraordinary “Renditions”: When Law and Pop Culture Co-Narrate the Bush Administration’s Use of Extraordinary Rendition
• Pnina Werbner, ‘Multiple and Intersecting Identities among British Pakistanis: Negative and Positive Scholarly Frames’
Themes include:
• Historical perspectives
• Production and Reception of images
• Representation and Power
• Race, ethnicity and gender
Organised by :
Centres & Programmes, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Framing Muslims
Framing Muslims: Representation in Culture and Society Post 9/11
Contact the organisers via the above link for registration info, etc.
