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This conference brings together scholars, activists and NGO workers to explore the experiences of diasporic, immigrant and foreign communities in the United States and how they have changed since 9/11.  It also addresses the impact of a new U.S. nationalism on international affairs and globalization

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Wednesday April 6, 2005—Arlington Campus

Law School, Room 225

I           2:30am - 4:00pm

Muslims in the United States & Europe After 9/11

Yvonne Haddad (History, Georgetown University)
Editor, Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens, co-editor Islam and the West Post 9/11

Bobby Sayyid (Leeds University, UK)
Author, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism

Saadia Yacoob (MuslimWakeUp!)
Activist promoting the development of a progressive and inclusive Muslim identity, especially among young Muslims.

II           4:15pm – 5:45pm

Civil Rights, Academic Freedom: The Case of Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan (video-conference) (Freibourg University, Geneva, Switzerland)
Author, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam

David Cole (Law School, Georgetown University)
Legal affairs correspondent for The Nation; author No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

Kareem Shora  (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee)
Director of Legal Policy; Civil rights lawyer

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Thursday April 7, 2005—Fairfax Campus

Cinema

III          10:00-11:30

New Immigrants: Labor, Community, Identity

Rhacel Parennas  (Anthropology, UCSD)
Author, Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work
 
Sarah Mahler (Sociology and Anthropology, Florida International)
Author, American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins and Salvadorans in Suburbia

Deborah Shutika (English, George Mason University)
Folklorist specializing in Latino traditional culture, working with Mexican Americans in  Southeast Pennsylvania

IV         11:45-1:15

Representations

Eren McGinnis (independent filmmaker)
Producer, Beyond the Border, PBS documentary

Jana Evans Braziel (English, University of Cincinnati)
Co-editor, Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader and Against “Against Race”: Cultural Amnesia, the Academy, and the Racialized Foundations of Knowledges

Marvette Perez (National Museum of American History)
Curator, Division of Cultural History, specializing in Latino history and cultures

 V         2:00-3:00

Keynote Address

Saskia Sassen (Sociology, University of Chicago)
Author, Guests and Aliens and Globalization and Its Discontents: Selected Essays 1984-1998

VI         3:15-4:45

9/11 and the Politics of Insecurity

Corey Robin (Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Author, Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Nevzat Soguk   (Political Science, University of Hawaii)
Author, States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft

Andrew Patel
Civil Rights attorney, defense co-council in for Jose Padilla

Center for the Arts (probable location)

VII        5:00-6:30

Reception

 

 

* co-sponsored by CAS Dean’s Office, Office of the Provost, University Life, Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee, English Department, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, History Department, New Century College, Public and International Affairs Department, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Women’s Studies Program


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