Annual Graduate Symposia
The Centre organises an annual postgraduate symposium on “Muslims in the UK and Europe”. The aim is to bring together graduate students from British, European and American universities to present their research to their peers, discuss their findings and engage in debate about the issues that face Muslims in the European context. Topics vary widely, from Sufism to Salafism, from charity to burial rites, religious travel to therapy, Islamophobia, deradicalisation initiatives and more.
The Centre invites scholars of Islam to attend the symposium proceedings and act as mentors and commentators. Keynote speakers have also been invited to address major issues on Muslims and Islam in the British and European contexts. These senior academics and thinkers offer insightful reflections on the relationship between ‘Islam’, reflexivity, and the possibility for creative rethinking of social issues in the UK and Europe.
A product of the symposium is a publication of edited papers which provide a range of topical essays on Islam and Muslims in the Europe. The “Muslims in UK and Europe” series are available to download from our Publications page.
This year’s postgraduate symposium, will be taking place on Thursday 17 June 2021, and will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. The symposium will take place online this year due to Covid. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
The keynote speech will be given by Dr H.A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow of the Royal Institute (RUSI) in London and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. A visiting fellow at the Centre, Dr Hellyer’s talk will revolve around the Muslim-European presence, current and future challenges.
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The Centre organises an annual postgraduate symposium and brings together graduate students from British, European and American universities to present their research, discuss findings and engage in debate about the issues pertaining to Muslims and Islam in the UK and European contexts.
The symposium takes place in Cambridge, with registration, a keynote address by a distinguished guest, presentations of each paper in panels with Q&A and finishing with a dinner in the evening.
The symposium is held at the Moller Centre, Cambridge, where students are also provided accomodation and meals. Travel bursaries will be available.
Watch highlights from Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium I:
The University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies invites applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe, from any discipline. The postgraduate symposium is a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. The symposium will take place at The Moller Centre, Cambridge. Accommodation will be covered by the Centre of Islamic Studies and travel bursaries will be available.
Successful participants will be asked to agree to the following terms and conditions:
- Participants must submit a c. 3000 word paper by a date prior to the symposium.
- Participants must agree to the distribution of their paper to Symposium participants and others – as determined by the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge – in an e-form in advance of the Symposium. Copyright of the paper belongs to its author.
- Participants must give permission for their paper, including any modifications following the symposium, to be published as part of a collection of papers from the Symposium and they will also be responsible for clearing any copyright issues before a date prior to the symposium.
- Participants must give permission to the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge to upload their paper on the Centre’s website after the symposium.
- Participants must attend all sessions of the symposium and take an active role in its proceedings.
Applications for the 2020 Symposium will open soon.
Programme: 6-7th June 2019
Symposium and Accommodation Venue: The Moller Centre, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: 01223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.html
Day 1 – 6th June
10.00: Registration and coffee.
10.25: Welcome by Professor Khaled Fahmy, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies.
10.30: Panel 1: Imagining the Other (Chair: Professor Khaled Fahmy).
Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi, Marmara University – ‘Turkish first’: the language policy of Turkey and the Sunni Syrian community in Istanbul
Rim-Sarah Alouane, University of Toulouse-Capitole – Removing French Muslims from Public Spaces: The Increasing Danger of an Illiberal French Laïcité
Yasmeen Arif, University of Oxford – “Our doors are open, we’ve got nothing to hide”: transparency and the vulnerable Muslim body in securitised Britain
12.15: Lunch
13.15: Panel 2: Negotiating Integration and Assimilation (Chair: Dr Julian Hargreaves)
Angelo Carlucci, Occhialì – Laboratorio sul Mediterraneo Islamico and Consuelo Emilj, Hacettepe University – An example of coexistence between Muslims and Catholics: the case of Reggio Calabria
Fatma Zehra Colak Altun, University of Leuven – ‘When do you become a real Belgian?’ Examining discrimination experiences of Turkish-Belgian Muslim university students
Friedrich Püttmann, European Stability Initiative (ESI), Berlin – ‘Securitising the Oriental – How Islam is becoming a Threat to Kosovo’
Luna Skjoldann Larsen, University of Copenhagen – ‘Generational Changes in Muslim Diasporas: Are we facing a Deculturalization among the new generation of Turkish-Danish Muslims?’
15.30: Tea and Coffee
16.00: Keynote Lecture – ‘Muslims, Schooling and Education in Britain’ (Dr Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield)
17.00: End of Day 1
19.00: Conference dinner, Moller Centre
Day 2 – 7th June
08.30: Coffee.
09.00: Panel 3: Emerging trends of religious authority and leadership (Chair: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman).
Ataul Khabir, University of Edinburgh – The Emergence of a Hybridised Islamic Authority: The Academic Sheikh
Haroon Sidat, Cardiff University – Young Ulama as Custodians of Change: An Ethnography of a Traditional. Dar al-Uloom in Modern Britain
10.30: Coffee.
11.00: Panel 4: Challenging norms of gender and sexuality (Chair: Hakan Sandal).
Aaliyah Shaikh, University of Cambridge – A Systematic Review of Muslims experiences of Pregnancy and Birth: A Meta Ethnography
Anna Holmqvist, Lund University – LGBTQIA in Muslim community
Muhammed R. Tajri, Lancaster University – Shī‘a Female University Experiences. Shaping Religious Authority Conceptions
12.45: Lunch
14.00: Panel 5: Moving between the sacred and the profane (Chair: Dr Feriel Bouhafa)
Douglas Mattsson, Lund University – ‘Abu-Lahab, stone him’: Islamic semiotics in Turkish black metal
Emanuelle Degli Esposti, University of Cambridge – From Human Rights to “Shi’a Rights”, and Back Again: Ethics, Sectarianism, and Identity in the Secular Age
Souhila Belabbas, Southampton University – Kabyle secularism in the UK.
15.45: Concluding Remarks (Neil Cunningham)
16.00: End of Symposium
Programme: 18th June 2018
Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
Symposium and Accommodation Venue: The Moller Centre, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: 01223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.html
08.30: Registration and coffee.
09.00: Welcome by Professor Khaled Fahmy, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies.
09.05: Keynote Address by Prof. Amr Ryad, University of Leuven: The Hajj between Photography and Film in the Netherlands in the Colonial Age.
09:55: Q&A to Prof. Amr Ryad
10.15: Panel 1: Mobility & Space (Chair: Professor Khaled Fahmy).
Marko Jovanović, University of Belgrade – Goranies – Historical Overview and Current Perspectives.
Pedro Soares, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Barelvi Muslims between Portugal and Mozambique: Frictions and Continuities in the Transnational Islamic Space.
Seyda Karaoglu, George Washington University – Islamophobia à la Française: An Etymology in Étienne Dinet’s Pilgrimage to the Sacred House of Allah (1930).
11.45: Tea and Coffee
12.00: Panel 2: Managing Boundaries: State, Community and Self (Chair: Dr Samira El Boudamoussi)
Nancy Ko, University of Oxford – From Consistoire Israélite to Conseil Français du Culte Musulman: A Historical Challenge to the Secularization Model.
Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla, Berlin Graduate School – Rendering Islam Liberal. Time, Space and the Imperative of Intelligibility.
13.00: Lunch
14.10: Panel 3: Articulating Islam (Chair: Dr Julian Hargreaves)
Ayesha Khan, Cardiff University – Spiritual or Sufi?
Sairah Narmah-Alqasim, Nottingham Trent University – Islamic Law and Legal Practice – A Conundrum for Legal Education.
15.10: Tea and Coffee
15.30: Panel 4: Ethics and Identities (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Matthew Vince, Cardiff University – “I’m not a Muslim RE teacher, I’m an RE teacher who is Muslim”: framing personal faith and professional identity in the critical case of “Muslim RE teachers”.
Philip Rushworth, University of Cambridge – ‘Letting your front down’: Ethics, Authenticity and Friendship in a Convert Support Group.
Saleema Farah Burney, SOAS, University of London – British Muslim Women: Enabling social contribution through strong hybridised identities.
17.00: Concluding Remarks (Prof. Khaled Fahmy)
17.30: End of Symposium
19.00: Conference dinner, Moller Centre
MUSLIMS IN THE UK AND EUROPE SYMPOSIUM 2017
Venue:
The Møller Centre
Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.htmlFriday 12 May
09.00: Depart Moller Centre by pre-booked taxi.
09.30: Registration at Beves Room, King’s College.
09.45: Welcome by Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies).
10.00: Keynote Address by Dr Katherine Brown, University of Birmingham: Islam in Europe, Islam of Europe, European Islam and Islamic Europe.11.00: Tea and Coffee
11.20: Panel 1: Conversion (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman).
Dorothea Ramahi, University of Cambridge – Religion of Logic: Science, Dreams, and Ambiguity in Conversion to Islam.
Lisa-Maria Brusius, King’s College London – Sedimentation, Calibration, and Developability: Affect in Vocal Practices of Converted Muslim Women in Berlin.Thomas Sealy, University of Bristol – British Converts to Islam: Connections and Divisions.
12.50: Lunch provided (Beves Room)
14.00: Panel 2: Learning Islam (Chair: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman)
Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh, University of Oxford – ‘Have We Got It All Backwards?’ British Muslim Students’ Experiences of Learning Arabic.
Thomas Evans, University College London – An Ethnographic Study of a Muslim School in Super-Diverse London.
Katiuscia Carnà, University of Roma Tre – The Religious Communities as Social and Educational Systems: The Case of Islam in Rome.
15.30: Tea and Coffee
15.45: Panel 3: Youth and Culture (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Geoffrey Sage, University of Exeter – Finding the Origin of Love?Matteo Benussi, University of Cambridge – Islamic Piety and ‘Form-of-Life’ in Post-Soviet Povolzhye.
17.00: End of Symposium Day One
17.15: Pre-booked Taxi to Moller Centre, departing from King’s Parade
19.00: Conference dinner, Moller CentreSaturday 13th May: Symposium Day Two
09.00: Depart Moller Centre by pre-booked taxi
09.30: Panel 4: Sameness and Difference in Everyday Life (Chair: Dr Caroline Tee)
Ireena Nasiha Ibnu, University of Sussex – A Study of Malaysian Muslim Female Students’ Experiences in the UK.Merve Kayikci, University of Leuven – Communicating Morality: The Small Politics of Dialogue.
Farah Ahmed, University of Cambridge – Halaqah: Dialogic Pedagogy for British Muslim Children in Uncertain Times.
11.00: Tea and Coffee
11.15: Panel 5: Law and Jurisprudence (Chair: Dr Vishal Vora)
Hafssa El-Bouhamouchi, University of Leibniz – The European Council for Fatwa and Research’s Role in the Interpretation and Application of Islamic Norms in Germany.Mahdiyah Abdul-Hussain, Royal Holloway, University of London – The Definition of Death and Its Implication on the Permissibility of Organ Donation in Contemporary Shi’ite Jurisprudence.
Naheed Ghauri, Birkbeck College, University of London – The Qur’anic Model: Interaction and Navigation of Islamic Heterogenous Autonomous Legal Orders with State Law: A Case Study of Muslim Arbitration Tribunal and Shari’a Councils in the UK.
Murtaza Shaikh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London – The Need to Reform UK Religious Hate Speech Law to Stem the Rise of Religious Hatred and Islamophobia.
13.00: Lunch provided (Beves Room)
14.00: Panel 6: Securitisation (Chair: Dr Julian Hargreaves)
Khaled Al-Anbar, University of Southampton – Through the Prism of Critical Discourse Analysis: Islam and Muslims in the Political Discourses of Former British Prime Minister David Cameron.Sophia Butt, University of Birmingham – The BRIT Questionnaire: A Counter-Productive Tool?
15.00: Panel 7: Representation and Otherness (Chair: Dr Chris Moses)
Alice Picard, University of Bristol / Arenes (CNRS) – Public Debate as an Instrument of Governance of Religion and as a Mode of Public Problem Construction: The Cases of Public Policies towards Muslims in Nantes and Rennes.Zubair Ahmad, Freie Universitet Berlin – Orientalism, Colonialism in “Islampolitik”.
16.00: Summary and close
16.30: End of symposium
16:45: Pre-booked Taxi to Moller Centre, departing from King’s Parade
MUSLIMS IN THE UK AND EUROPE SYMPOSIUM 2016
Venue:
The Møller Centre
Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.htmlAccommodation and meals: Main Building
Sessions: Study Centre Room 4Friday 13 May
15.00 Registration (study centre)
16.00 Welcome by Dr Paul Anderson, Assistant Director, Centre of Islamic Studies
16:15 Keynote Lecture
“Enough with excuses!” On self-critique, Islam, and the dilemmas of public anthropology after the Paris and Brussels attacks
Dr Nadia Fadil, University of Leuven17.15 Panel 1: European Institutions and Activism (Chair: Chris Moses)
Constructing expectations towards Muslims in the German Islam Conference
Tobias Müller, University of Cambridge‘European Islam’ beyond the national frame: shifting to the arena of the European Union
Adela Taleb, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Visiting Research Student, LSE‘Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice’ as a space for negotiations of Islam and Swedish identity amongst young Muslims in Sweden
Lenita Törning, Birkbeck18:35 Break
19.00 Dinner (restaurant)
Saturday 14 May
07:30- 09:00 Breakfast (restaurant)
09:00 Panel 2: Culture and Orthodoxy (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Lowering the gaze, shaping desires – a perspective on Islamic masculinity in Germany
Miriam Kurz, Freie Universität BerlinManaging Islam alla italiana: from Muslims in Italy to Italian Islam?
Mustafa Cenap Aydin, University of CambridgeThe Weight of Tradition. “Traditional” vs. “Non-Traditional” Islam in Russia’s Volga Region
Matteo Benussi, University of Cambridge10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:00 Panel 3: Muslims in the Fray (Chair: Julian Hargreaves)
Representations of Muslims in British Muslims’ press: initial analysis and discussion
Samar Mezghanni, University of CambridgeLiving in a world where the ‘Islamic State’ has been propelled: the perspective of British Muslims in their own words
Memoonah Zainab, Hamad Bin Khalifa UniversityConceptualizing Islamic radicalization: how the UK Prevent initiative is perceived by British Muslims, police forces, and policy makers
Madeleine Ary, University of CambridgeMuslim women in British politics: expanding the political space
Alaya Forte, SOAS12:50 Lunch (study centre)
14:00 Panel 4: Legal Affairs (Chair: Vishal Vora)
Institutions of Islamic law in Europe: Muslim legal practice in the UK
Yvonne Prief, University of Münster“Unlawful Marriages”: The Problem with Unregistered Polygynous Marriages in England and Wales
Hadeer Soliman, SOASMuslim family law: how do Muslim women pursue divorce in the UK?
Islam Uddin, University of Middlesex15:30 Tea & Coffee break
16:00 Panel 5: Transnationalism (Chair: Dr Nadia Fadil)
The England in my head: Halide Edib Adıvar’s “England and the English” newspaper series, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Anglo-Turkish Pact
Kaitlin Staudt, University of OxfordThe Islamist politics of exile: the struggle of Tunisia’s al-Nahda in France and the UK (1987-2011)
Anne Wolf, University of OxfordEstablishing Islam in the West: the case studies of the Ahl-e-Hadith and the Jamaat-e-Islami inspired groups in Britain
Hira Amin, University of Cambridge17:30 Break
19:00 Dinner (Private Dining Room – Suite 2, Main Building)
20:00 Free Time
Sunday 15 May
07:30-09:00 Breakfast (restaurant) and check out
09:00 Panel 6: Science and Ethics (Chair: Shahla Suleiman)
Aid paradigms: competition between the EU and Muslim majority countries
Behar Sadriu, SOASHow does Kalām, made the foundation of all other Sciences, influence contemporary Muslims?
Diaa Karaali, University of OxfordThe development of Islamic economic orthodoxy in British Muslim communities c.2000 – 2016
Martyn Rush, University of Oxford10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:00 Panel 7: Diversity and Belonging (Chair: Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)
Becoming Muslim, becoming British, becoming White: White British Muslims challenging notions of religion and ethnicity
Kevin Brice, Newcastle University and University of Wales Trinity Saint DavidAn ethnographic study of a Muslim school in the south London borough of Queensbridge
Thomas Evans, UCL Institute of EducationPioneer Muslim migrants in Sheffield, their British-born wives and the culture of ‘everyday tolerance’ – c. 1916 – 1947
David Holland, University of Sheffield12:30 Plenary Session
Dr Nadia Fadil, University of Leuven
Dr Paul Anderson (Chair)
13:15 Buffet lunch (study centre)
End of Symposium
MUSLIMS IN THE UK AND EUROPE SYMPOSIUM 2015
Programme
29-31 May 2015
Centre of Islamic Studies, University of CambridgeVenue:
The Møller Centre
Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.htmlAccommodation and meals: Main Building
Sessions: Study Centre 3Friday 29 May
13.30 Registration (Study Centre)
14.15 Welcome by Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies
14:30 Panel 1: Conversion (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
Revising the ‘Guestimate’: Producing a Robust Estimate for the Number of Converts to Islam in the United Kingdom
Kevin Brice, University of NewcastleRuptures and Continuities in Conversion to Islam: The Making of Intimate Strangers in British Families
Dorothea Ramahi, University of CambridgeMaqasid and the Europeanization of Fiqh: The Consequences of Female Converts Remaining with their Non-Muslim Husbands
Tariq al-Timimi, SOAS16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:30 Panel 2: Preaching and the Public Sphere (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)Televangelism, its Dynamics and the Discursive Construction of Muslim Identities by Contemporary Muslim Televangelists in the West
Shaimaa El Nagger, University of LancasterKhutub of Hfz. Ismet Spahić (b. 1940) as a Reflection of Bosnian Muslims’ Condition and History
Olimpia Dragouni, University of Warsaw17:30 Break
17:45 Keynote Lecture
Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies
(Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)19:00 Free time
20:00 Dinner (Restaurant)
Saturday 30 May
07:30- 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 Panel 3: Discrimination (Chair: Julian Hargreaves)
Muslim Methods of Responding to Acts of Discrimination in Poland
Magdalena Adamczyk, Trinity Saint David UniversityThe New Atheism and its Muslim Other: Integrating Orientalist Exclusion and Universalist Inclusion
Riccardo Jaede, University of OxfordThe Experiences of Muslim Academics in British Academia
Ibtihal Ramadan, University of Edinburgh10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:00 Panel 4: Identity (Chair: Professor Magnus Marsden)
“Cultural Muslims” and their Place in the Discourse on Islamic Identity in UK
Katarzyna Wiktoria Sidlo, University of WarsawEthnogeography as a Theoretical Framework for Examining Generational Dynamics within Transnational Shia Networks
Chris Heinhold, University of ChesterDress and Language: A Critical Analysis of the Concept and the Process of Identity Construction within the British Bangladeshi Muslim Community in East London
Fatima Rajina, SOAS12:30 Lunch (Restaurant)
14:00 Panel 5: Interpretation and Authority (Chair: Shahla Suleiman)
Assessing Perceptions of Islamic Authority amongst British Shia Muslim Youth
Muhammed R Tajri, Univeristy of LancasterThe Problem of UK non-Registered Muslim Marriages: New Questions and the Issue of non-Marriages
Vishal Vora, SOASThe Muslim Identity of the Albanians: Between Myth and Reality
Elis Gjevori, Birkbeck University15:30 Tea & Coffee break
16:00 Panel 6: Transnationalism (Chair: Dr Geoffrey Edwards)
Cooperation, Emulation, Rapprochement: The Changing Dynamics of the Turkish Islamic Organizational Landscape in Europe
Z. Ayca Arkilic, University of TexasMultiple faces of Cairo as a Haven: Bosnian Muslims and Imaginations of the Identitarian Centre
Dženita Karić, SOASMuslim Politics in post-Great War Europe: Laying the Foundations of a Movement
Andrei Tîrtan, Utrecht University17:30 Break
17:45 Evening Lecture
Professor Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
(Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)19:00 Free time
20:00 Dinner (Private Dining Room – Study Centre Suite 3)
Sunday 18 May
07:30-09:00 Breakfast and Check out
09:00 Panel 7: Governmentality (Chair: Julian Hargreaves)
De-radicalisation Interventions in the UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Mohammed Elshimi, University of ExeterThe Vulnerability of the Vulnerable
Elizabeth–Jane Peatfield , University of Liverpool10:10 Tea & Coffee
10:30 Panel 8: Civic Engagement and NGOs (Chair: Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)
Muslim Charities in Europe: Redefining a Positive Image of Islam in the Public Sphere at a Grassroots Level. Case study of France and Poland
William Barylo, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Science EHESS ParisYoung British Muslims in the ‘Era of Social Justice Activism’: Reconfiguring Political Agency and Identity through the Muslim Social Movement Organization ‘MADE in Europe’
Davide Pettinato, University of ExeterNegotiating with Journalists: Islamic Institutions and Media Scrutiny
Chris Moses, University of Cambridge12:00 Plenary Session
Professor Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic StudiesProfessor Yasir Suleiman, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies (Co-Chair)
Dr Paul Anderson (Co-Chair)13:00 Buffet lunch (Restaurant)
End of Symposium
MUSLIMS IN THE UK AND EUROPE SYMPOSIUM 2014
Programme
16-18 May 2014
Centre of Islamic Studies, University of CambridgeVenue:
The Møller Centre
Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 465500
Directions: www.mollercentre.co.uk/location/index.htmlAccommodation and meals: Main Building
Sessions: Study Centre 3Friday 16 May
12:00 Registration & Buffet lunch (Study Centre)
13:45 Welcome by Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies
14:00 Panel 1: Conversion (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
Counting the Converts: Using Data from the Scottish Census 2001 to provide a Quantitative Description of Conversion away from Islam
Kevin Brice, University of NewcastleIn Search of ‘Pure’ Islam: Conversion to Salafism Among Young Women in London
Anabel Inge, King’s College LondonBlack, Female, Muslim and a Hip-Hop Artist: A case study of Poetic Pilgrimage
Adviya Khan, LSE15:30 Tea & Coffee
16:00 Panel 2: Islamophobia: Muslims in the Eye of the Storm (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Muslim Responses to Far Right Confrontation: Ethical and Operational Considerations in Method
Yahya Barry, University of EdinburghIslamophobia on the Move: Circulation of Anti-Muslim Prejudice between Poland and the UK
Anna Gawlewicz and Kasia Narkowicz, University of SheffieldThe Role of Self-Esteem in Understanding Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Prejudice
Maryyum Mehmood King’s College London17:30 Break
17:45 Keynote Lecture
Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press
Dr Costas Gabrielatos, Senior Lecturer in English Language, Edge Hill University18:30 Q&A session (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
19:15 Free time
20:00 Dinner (Restaurant)
Saturday 17 May
07:30- 10:00 Breakfast and Check out
09:00 Panel 3: Ethics and Policy (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Music in the EYFS: How it can Impact Islamic Faith Early Years Settings
Maryam Bham, Cardiff UniversityTayyib: British Muslim Piety and the Welfare of Animals for Food
Ruth Helen Corbet, Glasgow UniversityThe Role of the Plurality of Fatwa (taʿaddud al-fatwa) for Muslim Minorities and its Rules – An Analysis of Fatāwa of the European Council for Fatwa and Research
Ranya Hafez, University of Vienna10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:00 Panel 4: Islam in the Public Sphere (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
Secularism, Reasoning and Religious Freedom in Europe
Farrah Raza, King’s College LondonThe Use of Mediating Concepts in Ismaili Academic Discourse on Islam in the Public Sphere
Mohammad Magout, University of LeipzigYoung German Muslims and their Visibility in New Media – Emerging Counterpublics
Asmaa Soliman, UCL12:30 Lunch (Restaurant)
14:00 Panel 5: Country Case Studies (Chair: Professor Maurits Berger)
Islam in Wales
Khosar Khan, Cardiff UniversityPatterns of State Engagement with Faith-Based Intermediary Organizations in Western Europe: The Second Image Reversed?
Gerald Thomas Fitzgerald, George Mason University‘Vienna must not become Istanbul’ – The Securitization of Islam and Muslims in Austria
Zsolt Marcell Sereghy, University of Vienna15:30 Tea & Coffee break
16:00 Panel 6: Crossing Boarder (Chair: Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)
Until Death Do Us Depart: Repatriation, Burial, and the Necropolitical Work of Turkish Funeral Funds in Germany
Osman Balkan, University of PennsylvaniaEstablishment of Muslim Graveyards in Germany
Erdogan Karakaya, Goethe UniversityHow Sufi Orders Have Adapted to a Western Context: Two Contrasting Examples
Belal Abo Alabbas, University of Oxford17:30 Break
17:45 Evening Lecture
Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe
Dr Esra Ozyurek, Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies European Institute, London School of Economics18:00 Q&A session (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
19:00 Free time
20:00 Dinner (Private Dining Room – Study Centre)
Sunday 18 May
07:30-10:00 Breakfast
09:00 Panel 7: Muslim Consciousness (Chair: Dr Paul Anderson)
Religious Travel and the Tablighi Jama’at: Expanding Horizons in Britain and Beyond
Riyaz Timol, Cardiff UniversityLocating and Exploring Muslim Consciousness in the Narratives of British Muslim Women in East London
Dr Nasima Hassan, University of East London10:10 Tea & Coffee
10:30 Panel 8: Muslims in the Fray (Chair: Professor Yasir Suleiman)
Exploring the Clinical Experiences of Muslim Psychologists in the UK when Working with Religion in Therapy
Dr Sara Betteridge, University of East London“White feminists want to pull your hijab off and liberate you and Muslims tell you that you don’t need feminism”: Feminist Subversions of the Hijab among British Muslim Women
Pina Sadar, Durham UniversityBritish Muslim Communities and ‘Everyday Hate Crime’
Julian Hargreaves, Lancaster University12:00 Plenary Session
Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director, Centre of Islamic Studies
Professor Maurits Berger, Full Professor Islam in the West (Sultan of Oman Chair for Oriental Studies), Leiden University
Dr Jeremy Henzell-Thomas, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies13:00 Buffet lunch (Restaurant)
End of Symposium
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