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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: 30-31 August 2022
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
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
About the talk
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) matter both for gender equality as well as for democratic politics, whilst communications when used strategically can contribute to shape debate and assist in the advancement of policies in the field of women’s rights. In the age of media saturation, research has shown that various NGOs face difficulties in advocating around their causes, particularly those working with human rights and in complex areas, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights. NGOs, feminists networks and movements face a series of challenges which range from the growth of far-right movements and conservative resistance throughout the world, to cuts on public health services at the local level and an increasing climate of competition for more funds and publicity in what is currently a saturated (online) mediated political environment. New technologies are not always capable of assisting social movements and NGOs in their causes (Thrall et al, 2016; McPherson, 2017; Powers, 2017).
The project Gender, health communications and online activism in the digital age seeks to advance research on advocacy and the use of communications by a total of 52 feminist and health NGOs and networks located in both the North and the South, but whose work has a particular focus on Brazil, Latin America and in India. The sample includes organisations from Care International UK to CREA India and Anis, Brazil. Core research questions are: How can communications be used for advocacy on SRHR? How are health and feminist NGOs and networks making use of communication tools? and How do communication strategies reflect on daily activities, and what are the challenges that NGOs encounter for advocating around SRHR?
Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), this research has adopted a mixed methods approach. In depth interviews with CEOs from the organizations and gender experts was combined with a short survey applied to the communication directors of these organizations. This was combined with content and critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the institutional websites of the organizations, as well as their social media engagement and online presence on Twitter and Facebook. This research seeks to contribute to the work of scholars within the field of gender and development, health and development communications, advancing discussions on the role of feminist NGOs, particularly from Latin America and the global South, in advocating for women’s rights (i.e. Alvarez, 1998, 2009; Harcourt, 2005, 2009; Gajjala and Mamidipudi, 1999), further assessing the ways in which communication strategies and new technologies can be better used for gender and health activism.
The Road from COP 26: Economy, Justice and Peace in an era of Climate Catastrophe
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Link to event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpffTEI685vx3en67ZReTg
Rising sea levels, droughts, bushfires, and other extreme weather events are exacerbating existing environmental stresses and provoking unprecedented challenges to states and communities. These growing environmental challenges multiply the risk of social deprivation, political instability, inequality, and war. As the international community struggles to find consensus on political action, the challenges to peace, justice, and security that will arise in a warming world are only beginning to be understood. At the recent COP 26 global conference, many of the most critical fissures in international relations diplomacy, regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation, were exposed. Deep questions remain over the capacity of the richer world to meet its obligations to the global South; and whether nations are able to move from 'net' to 'real zero', in respect of their NDCs. The clock is almost out of time. The aim of this event is to explore the relationship between economy, justice, and peace in an era of climate catastrophe. Academics, researchers, and activists have come together in this one-day conference to share their experience and perspectives on the challenges and openings to navigate a warmer world. In addition, and on the occasion of the passing away of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, we will pay tribute to his life and legacy for justice and peace.
Programme
10:15 – 11:00 am - Martin Porter. COP? What COP? Are activists and climate negotiators living in different worlds?
Environmental activist for most of the last 25 years and has shared a police cell with Greenpeace Director Peter Melchett and been Swampy's spin doctor. He has campaigned against the building of the Newbury bypass and the second runway at Manchester Airport and was part of the successful Greenpeace campaign to stop the growing of GM crops. More recently he has been campaigning against fracking and organised the Manchester People's Climate March. He has a degree in astrophysics and is a social worker by profession. ‘
11:00-11:45 am - Prof. Christopher M. Dent. Trade, Energy and Climate: The Key Challenges Ahead
Professor in Economics and International Business at Edge Hill University, where he also is Leader of SustainNET – a network community seeking to advance the sustainability agenda (https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/sustainnet). His main research interests focus on the relationships between trade, energy and climate change, as well as East Asia’s impact on the global economic system. He is the author of 14 books and over 100 academic articles and other papers. Christopher Dent is currently serving as a Specialist Adviser to the UK’s International Trade Select Committee, advising Members of Parliament on Britain’s trade policy and free trade agreements.
Break
12:00- 12:45 pm –Jonathan Neale. Climate Jobs or Climate Breakdown
Writer of plays, novels and nonfiction. He has been a climate activist for 16 years, much of that working with trade unions. His most recent book is Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs, which you can download for free from The Ecologist.
1:30-2:00 pm – John Nauright. Valedictory, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
PhD, Dean, Richard J. Bolte, Sr. School of Business, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg and Frederick, MD
2:00 – 2:45 pm – John Vogler. COP 26 and Justice in the International Climate Change Regime
Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations at Keele University, convenor of the BISA Environment Working Group, sometime member of the ESRC Centre for Climate Economics and Policy and author of 'Climate Change in World Politics' 2016 and other related publications.
Break
3:00-3:45 pm – Dr Mark O'Brien and Prof.Michael Lavalette. Organising for climate justice: Liverpool COP Climate Coalition and Glasgow’s Hope Students Mobilization
Dr Mark O’Brien, Merseyside socialist activist and trade unionist. Coordinator of the Liverpool COP Climate Coalition, played a leading role in the organising of the 6 November Liverpool demonstration for the COP 26 Coalition global day of action.
Prof Michael Lavalette, Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Founder member and national co-ordinator of the Social Work Action Network.
3:45-4:00 pm - Dr Tony Bradley and Dr Catalina Montoya. Closure
2021
The present as history: How Marxism can illuminate our current plight
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Place: Via Zoom.
Is the EU Neoliberal, and if so, so what?
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Place: EDEN Arbour Room
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'
- Dr Carly Bagelman, Lecturer in Education Studies, Liverpool Hope University
- Ms Stephanie Gill, Principal, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Trafford
- Mrs Suzanne Blay, Headteacher, Crossacres Primary Academy, Manchester
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
Time: 3:00- 5:00 pm
Venue: EDEN014, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, L16 9JD
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