Draft Programme

1:00pm- 2pm

Registration

2:00-2:30 pm

Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address

Professor Alan Robson, Vice Chancellor, UWA

2:30-3:30 pm

A/Professor Fethi Mansouri, Deakin University, Australia, Inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies: A Muslim Perspective

Ms Tayyibah Taylor, Editor, Azizah Magazine, USA, Muslim Youth in America

3:30-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00-6:30pm

Prof Francois Burgat, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Being a Muslim in France

Dr Tahir Abbas, University of Birmingham, UK, Muslims in Britain

Professor Asghar Ali Engineer, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, India, The Mumbai Bombings: Home Grown Terrorism?

Hon. Mohammad Chaib, Member Parliament of Catalan, Spain, Being a Muslim Parliamentarian in Spain

7:30-10:00pm

Dinner with speakers: optional

9:00-10:30am

Inclusion and Exclusion: Different Approaches

Dr Geoffrey Levey, University of New South Wales, Religious Inclusion, Core Values and the 'Muslim Question' in Multicultural Democracies

Professor Mumtaz Ahmed, Hampton University, USA, Political Participation by American Muslims

Professor Michael Humphrey, Sydney University, Issues of Social Inclusion and Muslims in Australia

10:30-11:00

Tea Break

11:00-12:15pm

American and Australian Muslims: After 9/11

Prof William Maley, Australian National University, Australian Approaches to Dealing with Muslim Militancy

Professor Mohammed Ayoob, Michigan University, USA, 9/11 and the Construction of Muslim American Identity

12:15-1:30pm

Lunch break

1:30-3:30pm

Muslims in the West: Experiences Compared

Dr Dick Van Der Meij, Indonesia, Muslim Integration in the Netherlands: Possibilities and Constraints

Dr Ghazal Anwar, University of Canterbury, Muslims of New Zealand: Assimilation, INtegration and Criminal Profiling

Dr Zijad Delic, The Canadian Islamic Congress, From Constructive Integration to Reformation and Recognition in Canadian Mosaic: Muslims as Citizens

A/Prof Samina Yasmeen, University of Western Australia, Representation and Leadership: Australian Experience

3:30-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00-6:00pm

Pluralism and Inclusion

Rahil Ismail, National Technological University of Singapore, Muslims in Singapore as a case study for understanding Inclusion/Exclusion Phenomenon

Dr Tasneem Meenai, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, Islamic Identity in the Indian Public Sphere: In relation to the State and to Education

Ms Hanifa Deen, Author, A Question of Boundaries: A Close Encounter with Victoria's Religious Vilification Law

9:00-10:30am

Australian Muslim Identities

Professor Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne, Emerging Muslim Identities among Salafis in Australia

Ms Anne Aly, Edith Cowan University, The Media, the Masses and the Muslims: How the media impacts on the formation of Australian Muslim identity

Dr Jan Ashik Ali, University of New South Wales, Tablighi Jamaat in Australia

10:30-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00-12:15pm

Muslim Women as Citizens

Dr Katherine Bullock, University of Toronto, Muslim Women’s Activism in North America

Dr Suzy Casimiro and Dr Jeremy Northcote, Edith Cowan University, Muslim Refugee Women as Citizens in Australia

Ms Jamila Hussain, Author and activist, The Shariah and Australian Family Law: Conflict or Compatability?

12:15-2:00pm

Luncheon Address: Mr Ahmed Fahour, National Australia Bank

2:00-2:30pm

Friday Prayer

2:30pm-4:00pm

Education and Interfaith Dialogue

Professor Ghazala Hayat, St.Louis University, USA, Sumptuous Stew, Not Melting Pot: A Muslim Woman’s Approach to Interfaith Dialogue

Dr Louis Cristillo, Columbia University, Private Muslim schools in the USA: increasing engagement

Dr Danielle Celemajer, University of Sydney, Educating for Social Inclusion and a Capacious Universalism

Mr Adis Duderija, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA, Constructing Muslim Identities

4:00-4:30pm

Tea Break

5:30-6:00pm

Concluding Remarks

7:00-10:00pm

AIIA 60^th Anniversary Dinner