Speakers
Liz Fekete, Executive Director of the Institute of Race Relations
Islamophobia and the Politics of Hate in Europe
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Liz Fekete is Executive Director of the Institute of Race Relations author of A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe and is part of the collective that publishes the international quarterly journal Race & Class. She has written and spoken widely on issues of migration, race and security in Europe and was an expert witness at the Basso Permanent People's Tribunal and the World Tribunal on Iraq.
In this lecture, Liz Fekete will ask whether Islamophobia serves a function; drawing on her recent research into the Oslo massacre and the European-wide assault on multiculturalism, Liz will contextualise Islamophobia in terms of the policies that give credence to the new politics of hate. She warns that as austerity measures begin to bite, processes which scapegoat and stigmatised foreigners, vulnerable minorities and anyone deemed ‘different’ for society's ills are strengthened and the politics of fear and the manipulation of division are part and parcel of wider pro war, neo-liberal and neo-conservative agendas.
- Arrival – 5:30
- Lecture – 6:30
- Drinks and networking – 7:30pm