Islamophobia did not invent State surveillance; nor is surveillance confined to the Islamic enemy. Nonetheless, the extent and shape of today’s surveillance order derives in large part from fear of Muslims and Islam. This symposium is concerned with the genealogies of this relationship in political thought and praxis. Why, when, and where did the Islamophobic surveillance imperative emerge? And how did it evolve into such a powerful element in apparatuses of global and local State power?

The keynote lecture will be given by Gil Anidjar, Professor in the Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and author, most recently, of Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia, 2014).

For the Call for Papers (deadline 30 June 2015), please go to: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/history/islamophobia-and-surveillance-genealogies-of-a-global-order/