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SCHEDULE
Sept 30: Conference Day 1
9.00: REGISTRATION
9.30: WELCOME TO COUNTRY | EZ G.23
Introducing AAIMS
Professor Shahram Akbarazdeh, AAIMS President
Conference Introduction
Professor Linda Briskman, Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work, Western Sydney University
10.00: KEYNOTE | EZ G.23
Professor Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
Terrorcraft: The Making of the Radicalized Terrorist Threat
Chair: Professor Linda Briskman, Western Sydney University
11.00: MORNING TEA
11.30: PARALLEL SESSION 1: A, B, C & D
PANEL 1 A | EZ G.22
James Godfrey, University of London
Workers within English universities must have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”-the ‘Prevent duty’
Sara Cheikh Husain, Deakin University
Towards Combating Islamophobia: The Context of the Muslim Community Organisations in Victoria
Dr Wardah Al Katiri, Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya
Religious Extremism in Post-Everything. A Critical Theory Perspective
PANEL 1 B | EZ G.23
Dr Sam Cherribi, Emory University
The Fuzzy Processes of Islamist Radicalization: Belgium and the Netherlands Compared
Mohamed Ahmed Hamed, University of Newcastle
Jihad as theological and political discourse: A critical analysis of relevant literature
Dr Mubashar Hasan, University of Oslo
Politics of Islam in Everyday life of Bangladeshi Muslims
PANEL 1 C | EZ G.36
Dr Sherene Idriss, Deakin University
Muslim Australian young women and discursive constructions of girlhood
Dr Leila Ben Mcharek, The University of Western Australia
Female Radicalisation in the Shadows of the “Tunisian Spring”
Firdaws Karim, Western Sydney University
Gendered strategies of resilience amongst Australian Muslim Women: Racism and (in)visibility
PANEL 1 D | EZ 1.57
Heela Popal, University of Sydney
Normalising Islamophobia: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the Liberal Party of Australia and the current othering discourse.
Ayah Abubasheer, Australian Catholic University
Islam, Te Da’wa and pious Women’s activism in Gaza
Waheed Akhtar, Western Sydney University
Volunteerism in Islam: Concept and Practice
1.00: LUNCH
2.00: PARALLEL SESSION 2: A, B & C
PANEL 2 A | EZ G.22
Professor Riaz Hassan, Flinders University
Muslim Women and Textual Authoritarianism
Laily Hafidzah, Western Sydney University
Being Women Sufi in Modern Life: An Anthropological Study of Women Members within the Naqshabandiyyah Nazimiyyah Sufi Order
Flavia Bellieni Zimmerman, The University of Western Australia
Pakistani women and honour: understanding gender and religious identity in Australia
PANEL 2 B | EZ G.23
Dr Jan Ali, Western Sydney University
Muslim Women Leading Gender-Mixed Congregational Prayers in Mosques: A Legal Conundrum
Muhammed Aksu, University of Western Australia
Marginalised Muslim Masculinity on Western Screens
Mehri Bagheri, University of Tabriz
Society as “Cult of Personality”
PANEL 2 C | EZ G.36
Dr Azim Zahir, University of Western Australia
Evolution of Salafi-Jihadism and Its Links to Salafism in the Maldives
Yousif Al-Hilli, University of Birmingham & Dr Mohammad Mesbahi, The Islamic College (London)
The Forgotten Uprising: The 1991 Intifadha and The Political Role of Shia Clerics in Iraq
Husam Al-Janabi, Deakin University
The Impact of Religious Scholars on Saudi Arabian and Iranian Relations
3.30: AFTERNOON TEA
3.45: PARALLEL SESSION 3: A, B, C & D
PANEL 3 A | EZ G.22
Muhammad Dan Suleiman, University of Western Australia
Between “Ghuluw” and “Ghaflah”: The Islamic concept of moderation and the pitfalls of Western counter extremism discourse
Dr Jennifer E. Cheng, Western Sydney University
‘So I can’t ask a Muslim girl where she got her scarf from?’ The Denial of Anti-Muslim Racism in Australia
Dr Lütfiye Ali, Victoria University
Australian Muslim Women’s Borderlands Identity: A Feminist, Decolonial Approach
3.45
PANEL 3 B | EZ G.23
Dr Ghena Krayem, The University of Sydney & Dr Mehal Krayem, University of Technology Sydney
Challenges of Insider Research in the Islamic Family Law Context
Fulya Vatansever, Southern Cross University
Writing (Turkish) Space: (Re)locating Turkey across Shifting Geopolitical and Geocultural Imaginations
Zia Ul Hasnain, National University of Modern Languages Islamabad
The media and its role in cultural rapprochement between Syrian refugees and citizens: An analytical study
PANEL 3 C | EZ G.36
Nisaul Fadillah, University of Western Sydney
Split role of Majelis Taklim Preachers: becoming political candidates or electoral brokers
Sri Mulyati, Islamic National University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
Sufi Healing’ in Indonesia: An updated Study of Rehabilitation Methods practiced by Qadiriyya Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order
Assistant Professor Alena Kulinich, University of Oxford
“Satan threatens you with poverty…”, the use of the Qur’an in the medieval debate on the precedence of wealth over poverty
PANEL 3 D | EZ 1.57
Amy Pisani, University of New South Wales
The denial of Muslim victimhood in Australian text-based news media
Associate Lecturer Emna Malas, Charles Sturt University
Exploring End-of-life treatment decisions in Muslims: A systemic scoping review
Sonia Qadir, The University of New South Wales
“Security” as a Colonial Project: Imagining Alternative Futures in the Islamicate
5.15
Oct 1: Conference Day 2
9.00: OPENING | EZ G.23
Professor Kevin Dunn, Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Western Sydney University
9.30: KEYNOTE | EZ G.23
Professor Fethi Mansouri, Deakin University
On the Discursive and Epistemological Categorisation of Islam and Muslims in the West: Religion, Politics and Social Relations
Chair: Professor Kevin Dunn, Western Sydney University
10.30: MORNING TEA
11.00: PARALLEL SESSION 4: A, B & C
PANEL 4 A | EZ G.22
Professor Kevin Dunn, Dr Rachel Sharples & Dr Thierno Diallo, Western Sydney University
Dissecting Islamophobia: understanding the racialisation of a religion using latent class analysis
Abdul Alajlan, Deakin University
Religion and the rule of law- Saudi Arabia as a case study
Mehrnosh Lajevardi Fatemi, Western Sydney University
Shia leadership in Sydney, Australia (theory and practice)
PANEL 4 B | EZ G.23
Dr Amna Nazir, Birmingham City University
Apostasy Laws and Freedom of Religion in Islam: Challenging the Status Quo
Associate Professor Julian Millie, Monash University
Quality assurance and Islamic education in the post-colonial state
Nada Labib, The University of Sydney
Islam or culture? Allowance and restrictions on Australian-Muslim women’s higher education and career choices
12.30: LUNCH
1.00
1.00: AAIMS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | EZ G. 23
2.00: KEYNOTE | EZ G.23
Dr Shakira Hussein, The University of Melbourne
Flying the Anti-Racist Flag
Chair: Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, AAIMS President
3.00: AFTERNOON TEA
3.15
3.15: PARALLEL SESSION 5: A, B & C
PANEL 5 A | EZ G.22
Dr Maria Bhatti, Western Sydney University
The Implementation of Shariah in the Postmodern World
Mohammad Hasan Basri, Western Sydney University
‘Green Islam’ in Indonesia: Prospects and Challenges
Dr Imran Lum, Australian Catholic University
Challenges of Structuring Islamic Finance Transactions in Australia Flying the Anti-Racist Flag
PANEL 5 B | EZ G.23
Bilquis Ghani & Dr Lucy Fiske, University of Technology Sydney
Art is my language, Afghan cultural production challenging Islamophobic stereotypes
Dr Anisa Buckley, The University of Melbourne & The University of Sydney
Not ‘Completely’ Divorced: Muslim Women in Australia Negotiating Muslim Family Law
Dr Leticia Anderson & Dr Kathomi Gatwiri, Southern Cross University
Minoritised academics talking about marginalised subjects: Islamophobia, racism and the academy
PANEL 5 C | EZ G.36
Dr Derya Iner, Charles Sturt University
The Most Vulnerable Victims of Islamophobia: Children
Associate Professor Mehmet Ozalp & Mirela Cufurovic, Charles Sturt University
Challenges and Issues Faced by Australian Muslim Youth in the Presence of Islamophobia and Societal Pressures
Ashleigh Barbe-Winter, Western Sydney University
“Australian Muslims in parenting order cases: Discourses of family violence and Muslim identity”
4.45: CONFERENCE CLOSING | EZ G. 23
Information about keynotes:
Professor Deepa Kumar is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University in New York. Professor Kumar’s research centres on Islamophobia, empire, culture, gender, race, class in the media, neoliberalism, labor and social class. Her work is driven by an active engagement with the issues of neoliberalism and imperialism. Professor Kumar recently published the book Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.
Professor Fethi Mansouri holds the UNESCO Chair on ‘Cultural Diversity and Social Justice’ and is the Director of Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization. He specialises in migration studies, comparative refugee research, global Islamic politics and multiculturalism and intercultural relations. Since 2010, Professor Mansouri has been serving as an expert advisor to the UN on cultural diversity and intercultural relations. Last year, he co-authored Intercultural contact, knowledge of Islam, and prejudice against muslims in Australia.
Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher for the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, The University of Melbourne. Dr Hussein has completed extensive research into gender, multiculturalism and Islam as well as Muslim women, gendered violence and radicalised political discourse. She recently co-authored journal article We’re Not Multicultural, but…
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