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

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) Vivienne Angeles - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity: The Moros of the Philippines (La Salle University USA) 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)