Past Conferences

Inaugural Conference

States of Islamophobia (Studies)

Ibn Haldun University

Istanbul, Turkey | July 14-16, 2022

In the context of the intensified levels of violence and cases of genocide directed at Muslims and the demonization of Islam as a “non-Western” religion, the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association’s (IISRA) vision is to form the global architecture for the field of Islamophobia Studies.

2nd Annual Conference

Islamophobia and Knowledge Production

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States. |. May 5-7, 2023

While research over the past few decades has highlighted the various ways discrimination, racism, and bigotry have become common occurrence in the lives of Muslims as a racialized and targeted group, the need for more systematic and persistent scholarship remains urgent. 

3rd Annual Conference

Islamophobia, Ethnonationalism, Memory and Belonging

Nahla Center for Research and Education,

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | May 24-26, 2024 

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 racialized and other hierarchies of marginalization and exploitation…