Events

What does the future hold for Colombia? Discussing Colombia's Truth Commission Final Report (Held in Spanish)

Organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University, the UoL Conflict, Memory & Heritage Research Group at University of Liverpool, and the University of Huddersfield, with with Cátedra Molano - Foundation Alfredo Molano Bravo.

Organisers: Dr Catalina Montoya Londoño (Liverpool Hope University), Dr Camilo Tamayo Gómez (University of Huddersfield), Professor Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool) 

Guest organizations/speakers: Truth Commission, Comisión de Seguimiento, Cátedra/Fundation Alfredo Molano Bravo, Mujer Diáspora, Rodeemos el Diálogo, EAN University, CINEP/PPP, ABC Colombia Programme, Justice for Colombia, Escuela Audiovisual Belén de los Andaquíes, and Researchers/Advisors for the Truth Commission.  
 
Date and time: 7 October 2022 from 2-5 pm (British time) in Liverpool Hope University campus (Learning Lab) and via Zoom  

The Colombian Truth Commission's final report acknowledges massive human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law during more than six decades of armed conflict in Colombia. It presents a comprehensive narrative, amplifying the voices of victims and survivors in the country and exiled abroad. The main aim of this report is to fully understand the different cycles of violence in Colombia, identify causes and consequences, and start open conversations regarding the future of the country. The final report makes recommendations to ensure the non-recurrence of violence, having victims' needs at the centre of these recommendations. This event organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre, The University of Huddersfield and The University of Liverpool with with Cátedra Molano - Foundation Alfredo Molano Bravo, brings multiple and diverse civil society, academic voices and Truth Commission representatives to reflect on Colombia's Truth Commission final report and its recommendations. It will address different perspectives on the challenging implementation of the report's recommendations with the aim of recognising the crucial role of victims and civil society in general to claim justice, truth, and reparation in post-conflict Colombia.

Register online via Zoom here

Register to attend the event in Liverpool Hope University Learning Lab, Gateway Building (2nd Floor) here

Please find more about our institutions in the following links:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies here
UoL Conflict, Memory & Heritage Research Group at University of Liverpool here
University of Huddersfield here
Cátedra Alfredo Molano Bravo here

More information: tutu@hope.ac.uk

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Call for Abstracts: The Trojan Horse Affair

Organisers: Contemporary Islamic Studies programme, St Antony’s College, Oxford; Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University; SOAS University of London

Conference date: TBC

Keynote speakers: Prof John Holmwood (University of Nottingham); Dr Khadijah Elshayyal (University of Edinburgh)

Abstract deadline: 15 May 2022

The Contemporary Islamic Studies programme at St Antony’s College, Oxford, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre at Liverpool Hope University, and SOAS University of London are hosting a two-day online conference on the Trojan Horse Affair (THA).

The so-called ‘Trojan Horse Affair’ gripped Britain in the mid-2010s on the basis of a fake letter that purported to show the attempted takeover of a number of Birmingham schools by ‘Islamic extremists’. The episode was used as a springboard by the British government and media establishment to justify the increased surveillance and marginalisation of the already securitised Muslim community in Britain. In particular, the government aggressively beefed up the Prevent programme, which already disproportionately affected Muslim citizens, on the basis of the so-called Trojan Horse letter. And until recently, the conventional wisdom in Britain was that Muslims had indeed been ‘up to no good’ in British schools.

This narrative has been called into serious question by the latest instalment of the New York Times Serial podcast series. In eight gripping episodes, journalists Brian Reed and Hamza Syed pick apart the accepted narrative with remarkable ease to show the Islamophobic underpinnings of the prevailing account purveyed for years by the UK political and media establishments. The podcast draws an explicit parallel with another sinister hoax from European history, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. It also has noteworthy parallels with the Zinoviev letter in Britain and the Dreyfus Affair in France.

In this call for papers, we invite both scholars and interested community members to offer their reflections on what transpired in the wake of the emergence of the fake letter in Birmingham in late 2013, and what it says about Islamophobia, minority status, religion, secularism, securitisation, liberalism, and establishment complicity in the systematic marginalisation of Muslims in modern Britain and beyond. We would also welcome testimonies of community members from Birmingham regarding the impact of the aggressive government and media attention directed at their schools, and the aftereffects of this hostile attention on the students and communities affected. These testimonies do not have to take the form of conventional academic papers - we welcome the use of diverse writing and presentation styles including poetry, short prose, conversation/interview, illustration, and the like.

Abstracts

Abstracts pertaining to the Trojan Horse Affair can address (but need not be limited to) any of the themes below:

• Islamophobia, racism, and their manifestation in contemporary Britain
• Structural Islamophobia and racism as manifested in the THA
• The depoliticisation of British Muslims due to the THA
• The THA’s adverse consequences for British Muslims’ educational experience
• The meaning of “undue religious influence” in the educational and other public sectors of an Anglican state
• Gender and misogyny in the THA
• The legitimation of the Prevent-Islamophobia complex by the political classes, think tanks, pressure groups, and/or the media
• The impact of the THA on the future prospects of Muslim students in Britain
• Reflecting on one’s positionality beyond the academic realm
• Comparisons between minorities: Islamophobia and other racisms
• Violence as a trope in Islamophobic discourse
• Postcolonial and/or decolonial perspectives on the THA
• ‘Fundamental British Values’ and the exclusion of minorities
• Free speech, power, and the silencing of minorities

For consideration of your proposal, please send a roughly 400-word abstract, summarising your proposed contribution and indicating what format it will take, to cisoq@sant.ox.ac.uk along with your full name and a short bio by the 15 May 2022. Please send the email with the subject line Abstract for THA.

Select participants may be asked to send in 3000-word essays which will be published in an edited volume with an academic press. These finalised essays will be collated and prepared for submission for peer-review as soon as possible after the planned conference in late August 2022, and no later than 30 September 2022.

Conference conveners:

Dr Salman Al-Azami, Liverpool Hope University

Dr Shereen Fernandez, London School of Economics

Dr Suriyah Bi, University of Edinburgh and SOAS University of London

Dr Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford

Advisory committee:

Prof Therese O’Toole, University of Bristol

Dr Rehana Parveen, University of Birmingham

Dr Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield

Dr Waqas Tufail, Leeds Beckett University

2022

International online conference Communication, Conflict and Peace [online]

Date: 27 June

Global transformations fostered by the decentralization of communications from mainstream media and governance institutions to a plural range of socioeconomic actors and stakeholders have shaken the foundations of social consensus, truth and objectivity in the construction of public spheres. Such transformation has posed unprecedented challenges to conflict management and peacebuilding, multiplying risks of instability and war, but also the spaces for the construction of collective meanings and the voices shaping them.   

As the international community struggles to find consensus and challenges to peace and security risks multiply, the aim of this event is to explore the relationship between communication broadly conceived, and the challenges and possibilities for peace. The conference covers multiple aspects of the relationship between Communication, conflict and peace including:  

• Dynamics of miscommunication, propaganda and persuasion
• Historical and contemporary perspectives
• The role of communication technologies, formats (speed, scope, use)
• The role of communication and media in prevention, management of conflict
• Communication, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
• Public Diplomacy
• Documentation and representation of war, conflict and peace in a variety of formats including photography, film, radio, TV, magazines, social media, videogames, etc.  
• News media, journalism in conflict and peace
• The role of representation and language in conflict and peacebuilding

Keynote speaker: Simon Cottle, Communication, Conflict and Peace – in a World-in-Crisis

We are living in historically unprecedented times - some would say in the Anthropocene, others the Capitalocene, and yet others, increasingly, ‘the End-Times’. The onward crush of global crises speaks to a ‘world-in-crisis.’ Climate change is probably the most precipitous existential threat to humanity and the continuation of life on planet Earth, but it is not the only threat. Bio-diversity loss, the sixth mass extinction, food, water and energy insecurity, pandemics, soil degradation and weapons of mass destruction all now pose further existential threats. For the most part these can be related to a rapacious economic system wedded to incessant growth, that is now overshooting planetary limits, and a worldview in which ideas of human exceptionalism, progress, and nature as an economic opportunity, have brought the world to the brink of collapse. It is in their complex interaction, in their evident acceleration and mutual compounding, that global crises today also create or exacerbate the conditions for conflict and the undermining of peace. How such crises become informationally signalled, culturally symbolised and deliberatively staged in today’s complex communication ecology can prove critical for exacerbating conflict or encouraging peace. This lecture sets out some ideas on this communication complexity and situated, necessarily, in relation to today’s ‘world-in-crisis’.

Simon Cottle is Professor of Media and Communications in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He is the author of 13 books and articles about global crisis reporting. These include Global Crisis Reporting (2009), Transnational Protests and the Media (2011)(co-ed with Libby Lester), Disasters and the Media (2012) (with Mervi Pantti and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen),  Humanitarianism, Communication and Change (2015)(co-ed with Glenda Cooper) and Reporting Dangerously (2016)(with Richard Sambrook and Nick Mosdell). Simon is series editor for the Global Crisis and Media Series, published by Peter Lang and is currently writing his next book, Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call.  

Commemoration event Archbishop Desmond Tutu (online)

Date: 4 May 2022, 4-5 pm

See the event in our you tube channel here

Guest speakers

The Burden of the Postcolony: Illusions of Peace and the Endemic Conditions of Violence in Central Africa  

Dr Suzzane Francis, Associate Professor, Programme Leader - International Relations, Leader of the Decolonising Education Working Group, University of Chester. TAU Fellow ELTASA, Honorary Associate Professor UKZN. 

Suzanne Francis is Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation & Peace Studies and Programme Leader of International Relations in the University of Chester. She is also the Lead of Decolonising Education Working Group. Dr Francis joined the Department of Social and Political Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa where she served as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences. She retains an Honorary Associate Professorship in South Africa supervising PhD scholars and leading two international research projects. She has also taught courses, by invitation, as a Visiting Professor in the USA on three occasions and carried out research for the non-governmental and international development sector in various international development, conflict transformation and research roles. She is a keen photographer with a focus on women and conflict.

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu: The Global Icon for Liberation, Justice, Peace and Devotion to the Planet

Dr. Sandile S. Ndlungwane, President of Hope of Africa Institute.

Sandile Ndlungwane has been a human rights and political activist since 1979. He was sixteen years old when he resolved to pursue the courage of his conviction by participating in causes that would bring about national liberation and socio-economic reconstruction and development. As a consequence of his indomitable spirit and burning desire to witness the birth of a non -racial South Africa, he was elected into various national formations. In 1991 he had a rare privilege and
opportunity to render support to leadership giants like former Pres. Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu etc.

In 1991 on his return from Canada he actively participated in the activities of the National Peace Accord (NPA). The NPA was established in September 1991. It created a conducive environment for the creation of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in December 1991. It was signed by 23 political parties, trade union leaders and senior government officials.
Sandile Ndlungwane has a vast executive experience in the public and private sector. This includes Executive and Non-Executive position in the City of Johannesburg and various boards of directors of stateowned entities and private sector. He also served as the Special Advisor to the Minister of Basic Education. He is the co-founder of CIDA CITY CAMPUS (university). He also co-founded the African Institute of Social and Economic Transformation (AFRISET) and served as its CEO until he was appointed as the Special Advisor to the Minister of Basic Education. He currently represents the ministry of agriculture and land reform in various fora including the development of the Agriculture and Ago-process Master Plan (AAMP). He is the Director of the Academy at Vaal Triangle (AVT).    

Faith in politics: The legacy of Desmond Tutu for Israel/Palestine

Revd Dr Yazid Said, Lecturer in Islam, Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University. 

Dr. Yazid Said is Lecturer in Islam. He studied Classical Arabic and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Christian theology at the University of Cambridge. After being ordained an Anglican priest, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (2010) on the medieval Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111). He subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship (2010-2011) at McGill University in Canada and the Woods-Gumble fellowship at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem (2011-2012). From February 2013-December 2014, he was Lecturer in Islamic studies at the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin. He became a research fellow at the Centre for Islamic Theology in the University of Tuebingen in Germany (2015-2016). His research is focused on medieval Muslim political and legal thought and on Christian-Muslim theological encounters, with reference to the manner in which Greek philosophical thought was appropriated in both Christian and Muslim texts. He is the author of Ghazali's Politics in Context (Routledge 2012), which was re-launched in paperback in 2017. He is the co-editor of The Future of Interfaith Dialogue: Muslim-Christian Encounters through A Common Word (Cambridge University Press, 2018). 

Currently, he is working on two projects. The first is to produce a critical edition of an Egyptian Muslim polemical manuscript against Christians and Jews in seventeenth century Ottoman Egypt. The publication seeks to contextualise the MS in relationship to medieval legal and political thought in Islam as well as to examine the intersection of Islamic law, religious and political pluralism with the Egyptian context of the text. The second project seeks to examine possible roots of Ghazali's concept of 'taste', dhawq, the illuminative fruits of systematic and divinely assisted introspection as the path to knowledge. The project compares similar sentiments found in the biblical commentaries of the Church Fathers on the psalms and in Greek philosophy and attempts to draw implications for comparative religious studies today. 

Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy

An original examination of the role of religious scholars in either supporting the Arab revolutions or advocating their repression.

Dr Usaama al-Azami, Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies, The University of Oxford

Date: Wednesday 6 April 2022, 4 - 5 pm

See event on or YouTube channel here

The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for ‘bread, freedom and dignity’. With the passage of time, results have been decidedly mixed, with initial success stories like Tunisia contrasting with the emergence of even more repressive dictatorships in places like Egypt, with the backing of several Gulf states.

Focusing primarily on Egypt, this book considers a relatively understudied dimension of these revolutions: the role of prominent religious scholars. While pro-revolutionary ulama have justified activism against authoritarian regimes, counter-revolutionary scholars have provided religious backing for repression, and in some cases the mass murder of unarmed protestors.

Usaama al-Azami traces the public engagements and religious pronouncements of several prominent ulama in the region, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ali Gomaa and Abdallah bin Bayyah, to explore their role in either championing the Arab revolutions or supporting their repression. He concludes that while a minority of noted scholars have enthusiastically endorsed the counter-revolutions, their approach is attributable less to premodern theology and more to their distinctly modern commitment to the authoritarian state.

Guest speaker: Dr Usaama al-Azami is Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. He completed his BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Oxford, his seminary training at Al-Salam Institute, and his MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specialises in Islamic political thought.

International Women's Day Special Talk on Zoom

Orgnised by the Arhcbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies

NGOs and advocacy communications for gender equality and reproductive health in international development

Dr Carolina Matos, Senior Lecturer in Media and Sociology, Department of Sociology. City, University of London.

Date: 9 March 

The Road from COP 26: Economy, Justice and Peace in an era of Climate Catastrophe

2021

The present as history: How Marxism can illuminate our current plight

Is the EU Neoliberal, and if so, so what?

Research Seminar series Religion and Conflict Programme 2021

Please email tutu@hope.ac.uk for the zoom links to the events

27 January

Managing religious diversity in Tanzania Dr Stephen McLoughlin, Assitant Professor, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University 

3 February

Christianizing Islam Tom Holland, Renowned independent Researcher and Historian 

17 February

In the wake of IS: is martyrdom still important for Sunni Islam? David Bryan Cook, Associate Professor of Religion, Rice University, Houston, Texas 

24 February

Hindu Moksha vs Muslim Shahada in early modern Malay epic literature Dr Harith Ramli, Lecturer in Second Education (Theology and World Religion), Edge Hill University 

3 March

Provincializing Europe in Thinking about Religion and Politics in the Modern Middle East Dr Usaama al-Azami. Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford 

Research Seminar series - “Responding to Disruption: Government, populism, the pandemic, and the breakdown of public trust” 2021

Friday 30 April

“The UK, the EU and the Labour Party: Lessons in the relaunch of Trust”. Dr Richard Corbett. See video here https://youtu.be/ADLw3W9mCNQ

Friday 7 May

“Sino-American Relations: Is Mistrust Inevitable?”. Emeritus Professor Anthony McGrew. See video here: https://youtu.be/Q2ikTAw1XOI

Friday May 14

"The sovereignty illusion: Britain, Ireland and the challenge of European integration" Dr Michael Holmes, Associate Professor of European Politics at the European School of Politics (ESPOL) in the Catholic University of Lille, and Director of the Lille-Liverpool European Institute. https://youtu.be/zgxtaHM1www

Friday 21 May

“Trust, the Paris Agreement and COP26”. Professor John Vogler, Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations at Keele University. https://youtu.be/Pwyg7stjW_s

Friday 28 May

“Deference, Trust, Populism and Contemporary British Politics”. Professor Catherine Marshall, Professor of British Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université in France (formerly the Université of Cergy-Pontoise), Director of the AGORA research centre and of the MA Political Ideas in a Digital Age. https://youtu.be/LtznlOOvuns

2020

5th February. Revd. Fergus Butler-Gaillie, Curate of the Liverpool Parish Church discusses his latest book Priests de la Resistance

Venue: EDEN014, Hope Park Campus, Liverpool Hope University

Time: 2.00-3.00 pm

14th February. Climate Change and the International Politics of Extinction

Joint Visiting Speaker Series: Spring 2020 “Securing the Future in an Insecure World” organised by The Lille-Liverpool European Institute and The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Guest Speaker: Professor John Vogler. Professorial Research Fellow, Keele University
Venue: LHBS007, Hope Park Campus
Time: 11.00am-12.00pm

18th February to 12 March. Exhibition. The Palestinian Paintings by Israel Zohar - The Cornerstone Gallery

Seminar Series Religion and Conflict organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Launch of the Exhibition—February 18, 4-6pm,
The Grace Room, Creative Campus (COR114)
Guest speakers: Israel Zohar, artist and Rev. Dr. Yazid Said, Lecturer in Islam LHU, paper: Christian Zionism and Palestinian Christianity

26th February. The Imam is Dead, Long Live the Imam? The Politics of Lament in Shi'i Poetry of the Abbasid Period

Seminar Series Religion and Conflict organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Guest speaker: Dr. George Warner, Research Associate at the Centre for Religious Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum in Germany
Venue: EDEN014, Hope Park Campus
Time: 2.30-3.30 pm

28th February. Intelligence and Uncertainty in an era of “Big Data”

Joint Visiting Speaker Series: Spring 2020 “Securing the Future in an Insecure World” organised by The Lille-Liverpool European Institute and The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Guest speaker: Professor Peter Gill. Visiting Professor at Leicester, Liverpool and Salford Universities.
Venue: EDEN014, Hope Park Campus
Time: 11.00-1.00 pm

4th March. Christian Martyrs under Islam

Research Seminar series Religion and Conflict organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Guest speaker: Christian Sahner. Associate Professor of Islamic History, University of Oxford
Venue: EDEN014, Hope Park Campus
Time: 12.00-1.00 pm

6th March. Does Russia Really Pose a Threat to the EU?

Joint Visiting Speaker Series: Spring 2020 “Securing the Future in an Insecure World” organised by The Lille-Liverpool European Institute and The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Guest speaker: Dr Paul Flenley. Senior Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations, University of Portsmouth
Venue: AJB058, Hope Park Campus
Time: 9.45-11.00 am

9th December 2020 Roundtable on 'Decolonising the Curriculum'

2019

16th of December 2019:
After communism: Personal reflections on 30 years of post-communism in Central/Eastern Europe

Organised by the Lille-Liverpool European Institute & The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for war and Peace Studies

Guest speakers:

Dr Daria Izdebska, Lecturer in English Language

Dr Gergely Juhász, Senior Lecturer in Theology

Dr Taras Khomych, Lecturer in Theology

Dr Dominika Kurek-Chomycz, Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies

Dr Natalia Vibla, Lecturer in Criminology

Time: 1-3 pm

Place: EDEN 102

All Welcome!

7th November 2019

Professor Frank Cottrell Boyce will deliver the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for Peace Studies Civic Lecture on occasion of the 175th Anniversary of Liverpool Hope University 

Professor Cottrell Boyce is a screenwriter, actor, awarded children's author and writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. 

Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Place: EDEN014

11th November 2019

After the Wall came down: Germany 30 years after
Organised by the Lille-Liverpool European Institute & The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for war and Peace Studies
Guest speakers: Prof Anna Saunders (University of Liverpool) and Dr Simon Piasecki (Liverpool Hope University)

Time: 1.00 -2.30 pm

Place: Eden Building room 102, Liverpool Hope University

All welcome!

30th October 2019 - Helping Persecuted Christians in Zones of Conflict: The Hungarian Perspective

Ministerial Commissioner Dr Hajnalka Juhász, Rector of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University in Budapest Prof. Dr. József Zsengellér and director of international relations of the university  Gyula Sümeghym will visit Liverpool Hope University. The lecture highlights the gravity of the endangered existence of indigenous Christian communities in the Middle East and its impact on Western civilisation and the security of Europe. As a feasible solution, the support model proposed and 

Colombia: Challenges and opportunities for the incoming administration

Organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies and the Colombian Embassy in the United Kingdom

Guest speaker: Antonio José Ardila, Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chair: Dr Catalina Montoya Londoño, Director of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Date: August 30, 2019
Time: 2:00—3:30 pm
Venue: Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, Liverpool Hope University, Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP

Register for this event free of charge here or visit https://store.hope.ac.uk/, events section (Tutu Centre Conference)

BOOK LAUNCH: THE FUTURE OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE 

EDITED BY YAZID SAID AND LEJLA DEMIRI

Panel discussion: Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, Prof Dr. Lejla Demiri, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Revd. Dr. Yazid Said, Liverpool Hope University

Seminar Series on Religion, Art and Conflict Programme 2019

1 March
Dr Merav Rosenfeld. Religion and Music in the Middle East: Jewish-Muslim Coexistence
Room: EDEN047, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm 

8 March
Dr Amir Dastmalchian. Music as a means of Dialogue with/by Muslims
Room: EDEN005, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm 

15 March
Dr Michael Miller. Black Jesus, Black Power: Visual and Musical aspects of the African American identification with Ancient Israelites
Room: AJB058 Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm

22 March
Dr Deborah Casewell. Truth, Beauty, and Death: Thomas Mann’s Challenge
Room: EDEN005, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm

27 March
Dr Dr Vid Simoniti. Deception in Alt-Right Visual Culture 
Room: AJB058, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 4.00 –5.30 pm

5 April
Dr Steven Shakespeare. Black Metal Music: Anti-Christian Inversions. 
Room EDEN114, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm

May 10
Professor Stephen Davismoon. God’s own caught in no Man’s Land
Room EDEN112, Liverpool Hope Park Campus, 12.00-1.30 pm

Professorial lecture 2019: The individual in International Law: 'Object' versus 'Subject'

Professor Solomon Salako 
Date: 1st of May 2019 
Time: 2.00-3.30 pm
Venue: EDEN014, Liverpool Hope Park Campus

Seminar series on Religion, Art and Conflict 2018/2019

• Dr Tala Jarjour on Sense and Sadness (November 30, 2018)
• Dr Merav Rosenfeld. Religion and Music in the Middle East: Jewish-Muslim Coexistence (March 1, 2019)
• Dr Amir Dastmalchian. Music as a means of Dialogue with/by Muslims (March 8, 2019)
• Dr Michael Miller. Black Jesus, Black Power: Visual and Musical aspects of the African American identification with Ancient Israelites (March 15, 2019)
• Dr Deborah Casewell. Truth, Beauty, and Death: Thomas Mann’s Challenge (March 22, 2019)
• Dr Vid Simoniti. Deception in Alt-Right Visual Culture (March 27, 2019)
• Dr Steven Shakespeare. Black Metal Music: Anti-Christian Inversions (April 5, 2019)
• Dr Simon Podmore. Night Visions: The Art of Struggling with God (May 3, 2019)
• Professor Stephen Davismoon. God’s own caught in no Man’s Land (May 10, 2019)

Discussion with Erika Diettes, Exhibition “Shrouds” (Sudarios)

BESA. Muslims in Albania that helped Jews during the Shoa.

A Long Jihad: My Quest for the Middle Way by Muhammad Abdul Bari

Welcoming refugees: Community challenges and perspectives

2018

Screening of Au Revoir La-haut ("See you up There) Albert Dupontel, 2017

Peace and Reconciliation Weekend

A silent tribute to the fallen. Remembering 21st Century Wars

Representation and Commemoration: The Centenary of the End of WW1

Finding Peace in the Holy Land By Lauren Booth

“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge”. Arthur Lewis and the Windrush Generation in Manchester

Annual Conference Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre: Identity and Memory in War and Peacebuilding

Panel on Peace and youth engagement (Big Hope 2)

Lord Charles Guthrie on the morality of intervention

Professor Solomon Salako Professorial Lecture Entitlement to Islands,Rocks and Low - Tide Elevations in the South China Sea: Geoeconomics versus Rule of Law.

Ruben Zamora speaks about the Social Challenges of El Salvador Today

Symposium "Religion and Conflict between Egypt and Tanzania"

Sarah Black and Esther Wilson. A performative response to The Mother's Day Proclamation - Julia Ward Howe (1870)

Public lecture: Change in the Arab World

Panel on security and intelligence: the politics and the media

Russian-Ukrainian conflict: An ‘unexpected’ crisis

2017

Book Presentation: Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War. From Vogue to Dachau

Symposium - The Balfour Declaration (1917-2017): Past, Present and Future

Book Presentation: The Boundaries of the debate on Land Restitution in Colombia 

How do you solve a problem like Korea?

One-day Practitioners’ Conference on Media Discourse about British Muslims and its Implications

Annual Conference 2017: Restoring Peace

Professorial lecture: Climate Change,Environmental Security and Global Justice

Civic Lecture 2017: Challenges of building peace

Sacred Places: Performances, Politics and Ecologies – A Multidisciplinary Perspective

A tale of two cities? Social movement in the divided city of Mostar

High Stakes: Women and peacebuilding in an illiberal world

Donald Trump, US Grand Strategy and Forthcoming Prospects for War and Peace

Seeking refuge: Multiple perspectives

Are the media responsible while depicting religions?

You can now view some of our previous talks and events on the Archbishop Desmond Tutu YouTube Channel