Forthcoming

Policy and practical consequences towards anti-Muslim discrimination in the employment arena
Being, doing and representing workplace abjection, University of Warwick (February 2009)

Are you being served? The challenge of diversity as equality in the media
Bridging the Gap: cultural diversity in broadcast journalism, Birmingham City University (14 November 2008)

2008

KISS (keeping Islamophobia simple and stupid)
Thinking it Thru’, University of Leeds (7 May 2008)

Normalising Muslims: the potential impact of British Muslim converts
The Future of Islam in Britain: New Muslims Perspective symposium, University of Birmingham (4 March 2008)

Challenging Islamophobia – ten years on
Postgraduate Seminar Series 2008, Theology Department, University of Birmingham (29 January 2008)

2007

‘Down with multiculturalism, book-burning and fatwas’: the death of multiculturalism debates in the UK context
European multiculturalism as a challenge: policies, successes & failures, Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Poland (10 September 2007).

The first decade of Islamophobia
Conflict, citizenship & civil society, 8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow (3 September 2007).

Standing alone? The future role of faith communities
Developing a faith engagement strategy, West Midlands Faith Forum, Government Office West Midlands, Birmingham (30 July 2007).

Ten years on, a retrospective of the Runnymede Trust report
A challenge for all or a challenge for Muslims? Exploring Islamophobia and its responsibilities, MIHE (2 May 2007).

Community cohesion: is there a meaningful way forward?
Birmingham United, BRAP, Birmingham (23 March 2007).

Islamophobia: a historiography
Islam in Contemporary Britain Open Lecture Series 2007, University of Cardiff (13 March 2007).

2006

Should we fear the faithful?
B:Rap Faith & Equality seminar, Birmingham (19 July 2006).

Anti-Islamic Discourses in Europe: Agents and Contents
Comparing Islamophobia in Western Europe, Challenge Annual Congress, CERI-Sciences, Paris (9 June 2006).

Islamophobia and religious discrimination in the UK
Warwick University (26 April 2006).

‘Down with multiculturalism, book-burning and fatwas’: the death of multiculturalism and its implications for Muslims
The Challenges of Multiculturalism: practical issues and comparative perspectives symposium, Al-Maktoum Institute, Dundee (20 April 2006).

Islamophobia: meanings, manifestations and misundertandings
Islam in Contemporary Britain Open Lecture Series 2006, University of Cardiff (14th February 2006).

2005

Islamophobia: its meanings and manifestations in the UK and Europe
Islam d’Europe, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (13 December 2005).

The interplay of global-local-regional identities: a case study into the experience of young British Muslims in the Moseley School, Birmingham
Ethnicity & Culture in the Global City, University of Birmingham (26 July 2005)

Good Islam/Bad Islam: the representation of ‘true’ Islam in the media
Islam and the media, University of Gloucestershire (24 May 2005).

Contextualising the need for ‘faith literacy’
Religious Studies, Higher Education and Entrepeneurship, University of Wolverhampton (1 February 2005)

2004

Muslims in the Media: misunderstandings and misrepresentations
Muslims in Britain: the making of a new underclass? Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (18 November 2004)

In the eye of the beholder: visual identifiers and contemporary perceptions of Islam and Muslims
The Challenge Of Pluralism: the Power of Interpretation, 12th Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (Panel: Cultures: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives), Uppsala University, Sweden (22-24 October 2004).

Islamophobia’s genealogy
Challenging Islamophobia seminar, Islamic Foundation, Leicester (14 September 2004)

The ‘clash of civilisations’ and the remaking of European identities and enemies
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance, EASR 4th Conference-SECR 6th Conference-IAHR Special Conference, Santander Spain (8-11 September 2004)

Mapping Islamophobia: a brief timeline of the conceptualisation of Islamophobia
Muslims in Britain Research Network, Cardiff University (15 April 2004)

2003

Partners in crime: justifying Islamophobia following September 11
Islam in Britain conference, University of Gloucester (11 November 2003)

The impact of the Runnymede Trust on Islamophobia in the UK
Colloque du Groupe de Recherche sur l’Islam en Suisse, Unifour Geneve (18 October 2003)

Undoing proximity: the impact of the local-global nexus on perceptions of Muslims in Britain
The Globalisation and Localisation of Religion conference, EASR Congress 2003, University of Bergen, Norway (11 May 2003)

Addressing Islamophobia in the EU: the role of the EUMC
Muslims of Europe conference, Al Khoei Foundation, London (28 January 2003)

Islamophobia a challenge for us all: questioning the impact of the Runnymede Trust report
Department of Theology research seminar, University of Birmingham (21 January 2003)

2002

Legalising Muslim discrimination: race relations legislation in the UK
Crossing Borders, London Metropolitan University (16 November 2002)

Data comparability and comparative methodologies across the EU: a case study on the findings of the Summary report into Islamophobia
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia conference, Vienna (23 June 2002)

Challenging the benchmark: Islamophobia in contemporary Britain
Justice or Just Us? conference, Liverpool John Moores University (11 May 2002)

Islamophobia: permeating the public domain
Islamophobia and Racism conference, York University (8 May 2002)

Perceptions of Muslims in Britain
Past, Present and Future conference, University of Manchester (19 March 2002)

Islamophobia in an ideological framework
Department of Religious Studies Research Seminar, University of Wolverhampton (13 February 2002)

2001

Tackling Islamophobia
NUS Conference on Racism, University of Leeds (3 December 2001)

Oldham: the impact of contemporary negative stereotypes of Muslims
Anti-Racism seminar, Oxford University (8 November 2001)

Islamophobia and its role in the war against terrorism
War, Racism and Islamophobia conference, London School of Economics (14 October 2001)

Islamophobia in the media since September 11th
Exploring Islamophobia conference, University of Westminster (29 September 2001)

Locating Islam in contemporary Islamophobia
Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, London (16 July 2001)