From: Announcement list for the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jamie Hakim
Sent: 07 January 2015 16:06

Dear all,

A full conference programme is now available for the following event: 

'Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question of Palestine/Israel'

Date: Monday 9th February 2015
Time: 09.00–18.30
Place: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG 

To register use the following link: ajamrqpisoas.eventbrite.co.uk

Full price tickets - £20
Concessionary tickets (All students; Staff associated with sponsoring organisations) - £15

The conference programme can be downloaded from the CMRB website: www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/events.htm

This conference seeks to explore the multiple, complex and inter-related ways that anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms are being constructed in relation to the question of Palestine/Israel. In particular it seeks to examine how the histories of Zionist settlement, anti-colonial and nation-building struggles and 20th century warfare in the Middle East region are being transformed in the current historical conjuncture. Of particular importance in this context will be ideological and political alliances that have emerged locally, regionally and globally around notions such as the ‘New Antisemitism’, and ‘Islamophobia’ and how these relate to racialised discourses against Jews and Muslims. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds, the aim of the conference will be to serve as a first step for building a transversal anti-racist political vision that will aim to destabilize some of the oppositional dichotomies which are currently hegemonic in discourses around Jews, Muslims and Middle East politics.

The conference is sponsored by University of East London’s Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, SOAS’s Centre for Palestine Studies (London Middle East Institute), the Runnymede Trust and the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights.

Full details are included in the attached flyer.

All queries to be directed to [log in to unmask] 

Best regards
Jamie Hakim
CMRB