8:15-8:30 AM

Welcome Remarks, Cohen Auditorium

8:30-10:00 AM

8:30-8:45

8:45-9:00

9:00-9:15

9:15-9:30

9:45-10:00

Session I: Race and Diversity in Muslim America

Matthew Luther Lindholm, Ph.D., Concordia College.  Making a Diverse American Community in a Christian City

Junaid Rana, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The Muslim Body and the Racial Uniform in US Migration Regimes

Irum Shiekh, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles.  Being an Oral Historian

Yuting Wang, University of Notre Dame.  Confronting the Problem of Race and Ethnicity in a Diverse Immigrant Mosque

Discussion

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:45 AM

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:30-11:45

Session II: Gender

Lalaie Ameeriar, Ph.D., Stanford University.  Embodying Citizenship: Pakistani Women in Toronto and the Social Life of the Mosques

Louise Cainker, Ph.D., Marquette University.  Gendered Backlash After 9/11: Women in Hijab as Perceived Cultural Threats

Inger Furseth, Ph.D., KIKO Centre for Church Research, University of Southern California.  View on Marriage Among Immigrant Muslim Women in the Los Angeles Area

Mahruq Khan, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago.  Queer Muslims in the U.S.: The Struggle to Reconstruct the Bounds of Faith

Discussion

12:00-1:30 PM

12:30-1:30

Lunch Break

Keynote Address: Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D.
Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

2:00-4:00PM

2:00-2:15

2:15-2:30

2:45-3:00

3:00-3:15

3:15-3:30

4:00-4:15

4:15-5:30 PM

4:15-4:30

4:30-4:45

4:45-5:00

Session III: Islam and the State

Sameer Ahmed, Yale Law School.  The Religious Right to Refuse Service: Accommodating Muslims in a ‘Christian America’

Mucahit Bilici, John Jay College, CUNY.  Children of Abraham, Citizens of America; Muslim Interfaith Activism in Metro Detroit Area

Rabia Kamal, University of Pennsylvania.  A New Ethos for a New Generation: American-Muslim Cultural Activism & Liberal Subjectivity in Post-9/11 America

Erik Love, University of California, Santa Barbara.  Confronting Islamophobia: Advocacy Organizations and the State in the “Post-Civil Rights Era”

Kathleen Hall, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.  Security & the Neoliberal State: British Political Imaginaries Post 7/7

Break

Session IV: African American Islam

Zain Abdullah, Ph.D., Temple University.  Islam and Black Globality in the 21st Century: The Case of African American Muslims

Cheikh Babou, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.  African and African-American Muslims in the U.S.

Ezekiel Olagoke, Ph.D., Waynesburg University.  Second Generation African Muslims in the United States: A Diasporic Overview

5:45-6:00PM

Closing Remarks