Leeds Metropolitan University
Islam and The West
Flashpoints in a Fraught Relationship: Understanding ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’
Conference Progamme
Session / Time |
Workshop Themes / Presentations |
Speaker |
1300-1345 |
Arrival / Registration
|
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1345-1430 |
Introduction |
Professor Sally Brown
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Session 1 |
Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Lecture |
Professor Ian Markham
|
1530-1600 |
Break
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Session 2 |
Danish Cartoons
|
Dr Paul Wetherly |
| The ‘veil’ controversy
|
Dr Bano Murtuja |
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Deutsche Oper cancellation of Mozart's Idomeneo
|
Professor Simon Robinson |
|
Britishness / Being a British Muslim
|
Zareen Ahmed |
|
From Madarashas to Mainstream Education' - Muslims and educational achievement
|
Yasmin Valli |
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Muslims in business
|
Martyn Robertson |
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The Social construction of Asian Criminality?
|
Dr Colin Webster |
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Session 3 |
‘Islam’, ‘the West’ and the Role of the University (Roundtable)
|
Professor Simon Lee
|
1830-1900 |
Break – Refreshments
|
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Session 4 |
Multiculturalism
|
Professor Tariq Ramadan |
2000 |
Close
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