Call for Papers: Islamophobia: Ethnonationalism, Memory & Belonging

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

3rd IISRA Annual Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Memory and belonging have gained renewed and unprecedented momentum as sites of political struggle over the past few years. Past injustices, from settler colonialist dispossession and genocide, to slavery, colonialism, and racialised and other hierarchies of marginalisation and exploitation and their contemporary legacies have fed into both progressive mobilisations and backlashing culture wars over the memorialisation of public spaces, educational curricula, state heritagization and national identity narratives globally...

The 2024 IISRA Sarajevo Conference offers a forum for the critical engagement and discussion of these diverse challenges facing Muslims and the world in the Age of Global Islamophobia. In both location and time, with its poignant spatial resonances of cultural and religious interaction and bloody conflict and genocide, and its temporal evocation of the centenary of the abolition of the Caliphate, it invites critical contributions to the sharpening of the conceptualisation of Islamophobia as a transnationally articulated phenomenon, diverse in its global expressions of marginalisation and dispossession, and of the governmentalisation and disciplining of Muslims. The conference fosters a space for theoretically and actively challenging Islamophobic structures of domination through the articulation of counterhegemonic fronts and critical and creative postwestern imaginings.

Expressions of Interest: Submit an abstracts (max 300 words) and one paragraph (100 words) biography to be used for the program, if the paper is selected.

Submission Deadline: December 22nd, 2023
Response to Abstracts will be given by: January 19th, 2024