Book Conference: The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race, 2025

Name: Book Conference: The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race, 2025
Start: 2025-12-12T09:00:00-05:00

The Routledge Handbook of Islam & Race Virtual Conference

Hosted by the Duke Islamic Studies Center
December 12–13, 2025
Zoom ID: 932 2507 3997 / https://duke.zoom.us/j/93225073997

Eastern Standard Time (EST), UTC–5, in New York in winter.

Day 1 — Friday, December 12, 2025

9:00 – 10:30 AM

Opening Remarks: (9:00 AM -9:10 AM)

Zain Abdullah, Editor, The Routledge Handbook of Islam & Race

Opening Guest Speaker: (9:15 AM -10:30 AM)

Bruce B. Lawrence, Marcus Family Humanities Professor of Religion Emeritus, Duke University

Topic: The Dominance of Spain and China in Discourse about Islam and Race in Europe and Asia: What is Said and What is Left Unsaid Both Historically and Today in 2025

Break (10:30 AM-10:45 AM)

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Panel 1: Islam & Race in Oceania and Europe
Moderator: Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University

Nahid Afrose Kabir — Australian Muslims and the Question of Race (University of Queensland, Australia)
Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska & Monika Krukowska — Islam and Race in Poland (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
E.J. Hernández Peña — Proto-Racism in Early Modern Spain (Temple University USA)
Eileen Kane — Racialization of Muslims in Russia and the Soviet Union (Connecticut College USA)
George H. Junne, Jr. — Chief Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire (University of Northern Colorado USA)

Lunch Break (12:00 pm-3:00 pm)

3:00 – 4:30 PM

Panel 2: Islam & Race in Asia
Moderator: Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University

Musapir & Rune Steenberg — The Uyghur Quest for Modernity under Chinese Colonialism (Independent Scholar & Palacky University, Czech Republic)
Wlodzimierz Cieciura — Racialized Thinking and the Hui Minzu in China (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Staci Scheiwiller — Islam, Slavery, and Orientalism in 19th-Century Iran (California State University USA)
Yasmine Flodin-Ali — British Colonial India’s Impact on Shi‘i Identity (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA)
Will Sherman — Islam and Race in Afghanistan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA)

Day 2 — Saturday, December 13, 2025

9:30 – 11:30 AM

Opening Remarks, Zain Abdullah, Editor (9:30 AM -9:35 AM)

9:35 AM – 11:30 AM

Panel 3: Islam & Race in Africa
Moderator: Samba Camara, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Praise F. Owojuyigbe — “Islam in Equatorial Guinea” (Adeyemi Federal University of Education at Ondo, South West Nigeria)
May T. Kosba — Islam and Race in Egypt (Rutgers University USA)
Tahir Sitoto — Unapologetically Black, Unapologetically Muslim (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Brahim El Guabli — Racial Transitions: Islam and Transitional Justice in Morocco (Williams College USA)
Caitlyn Bolton — Swahili Arabic: Imitation and the Semiotics of Race (Boston College USA)
Haroon Bashir — Virtues of the Ḥabasha: Exploring Blackness in Islamicate Texts (Markfield Institute of Higher Education UK)

Lunch Break (11:30 AM -1:00 PM)

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Panel 4: Islam & Race in the Caribbean & South America
Moderator: Bryan Rusch, Duke University

Ahmed Idrissi Alami — Racialization and Ethnicity among Muslims in Jamaica (Purdue University USA)
Luciana Garcia de Oliveira — Bismillah Brazil!: Islam, Race, and Hip-Hop (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Ellen McLarney — Islam and Race in Argentina (Duke University USA)

Break (2:30 -3: pm)

3:00 – 4:45 PM

Panel 5: Islam & Race in North America
Moderator: Bryan Rusch, Duke University

Alaina Morgan — From Bahia to Black Lives Matter: Black Islam in the United States. (University of Southern California USA)
Ken Chitwood — Dreams of al-Andalus: Latinx Muslims Re-Imagining Race (Freie Universität – Berlin / University of Southern California USA)
Naved Bakali — Racializing Muslim Youth and the French-Canadian Imaginary (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
4:30 – 4:45 PM

Closing Remarks: Mbaye Lo, Duke University, Director, DISC & DUMESC.