Friday, 3rd November
9.30 – 10.00
Greetings and Introduction by Alexander Yendell
10.00 – 11.00
Key Note: Ivan Kalmar (Toronto): Antisemitism and Islamophobia, Not Only in Eastern Europe
11.15 – 12.15 Theoretical Implications and Methodological Problems
Farid Hafez (Salzburg & Georgetown): Reading Islamophobia Through the Lenses of James Baldwin
Piotr Kocyba (Leipzig): Methodological and Ethical Limits of Surveying Islamophobic Movements
12.15 – 14.30 Lunch break at Restaurant Mio
14.30 – 15.30 Comparative perspective
Gert Pickel (Leipzig) & Cemal Öztürk (Duisburg): Fear, Nationalism or Ethnocentrism? Islamophobia in Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective
Abdeslam Marfouk (Liege): Who is in Favour of a Ban on Muslims’ Immigration?: An analysis of the European Social Survey
15.30 -16.30 Country specifics I
Anita Stasulane (Daugavpils): Forms and Manifestations of Islamophobia in Latvia
Premysl Rosůlek (Pilsen): Celebritization of Politics in the Post-truth era – the case of Islamophobia and the Czech Pop-Rock Singers on Facebook
Saturday, 4th
9.30 – 10.30 Uhr Country specifics II
Konrad Pędziwiatr (Cracow): Religious dimension of Polish fear of Muslims and Islam
Monika Bobako (Poznań): Islamophobia of resentment. Nationalist resurgence, catholic reactionism and the question of Polish semi-peripherality
10.45 – 11.45 Country specifics III
Aaron Walter (Trnava): Slovakia: The Politics of Hate
David Herbert (London): Islamophobia in Russia: review and analysis
11.45 – 12.30 Final Discussion