Religious and Cultural Diversity in Four National Contexts

Religious and Cultural Diversity in Four National Contexts

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Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Halle
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Deutschland
Vom - Bis
26.06.2015 - 27.06.2015
Von
Mann, Bettina

Religious and Cultural Diversity in Four National Contexts

Programm

Thursday, 25 June 2015
19:30 Informal get-together

Friday, 26 June 2015
09:00 Introductory Comments
Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology)
Presentation and Discussion of Country Reports
Country Report 1: United Kingdom (Parekh Report, 2000)
Chair: Varun Uberoi (Brunel University London)

09:20 The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: the report of the Commission on multi-ethnic Britain, 2000
Bhikhu Parekh (University of Westminster, London, UK)

09:50 Response: ”Multi-Ethnic” to “Multi-Faith”?
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol, UK)

10:20 General Discussion

Country Report 2: Canada (Bouchard–Taylor Report, 2008)
Chair: Michele Graziadei (University of Torino, Italy)
11:10 Interculturalism and Open Secularism in the Bouchard-Taylor Report and Beyond
Jocelyn Maclure (Laval University, Québec, Canada)

11:40 Response 1: Liberalism Beyond Inaction
Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens (University of Montreal, Canada)

12:00 Response 2: Continuities and Ruptures in Imagining Islamic Law: reflections on blasphemy
Anver Emon (University of Toronto, Canada)

12:20 General Discussion

Country Report 3: France (Commission Stasi Report, 2003)
Chair: Vladimiro Zagrebelsky (Fundamental Rights Laboratory, Torino, Italy)

14:00 Why French Laicité is Europe’s Most Liberal Regime
Patrick Weil (University of Paris 1, France)

14:30 Whose Liberalism and which Laïcité? Distinguishing Reasons and Justifications
John Bowen (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)

15:00 General Discussion
15:30 Coffee break

Country Report 4: Belgium (Belgian Round Tables on Interculturalism, 2010)
Chair: Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California, USA)

15:50 The Roundtable on Interculturalité: an (un)successful experiment in deliberative democracy?
Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany)

16:20 Response 1: Religious and Cultural Diversity in Belgium: finding the common denominator
Patrick Charlier and Nathalie Denies (Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, Belgium)

16:40 Response 2: The Federal Intercultural Dialogues: a tale of a non-performative?
Nadia Fadil (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

17:00 General Discussion
17:30 On Reasonable Accommodation for Religion or Belief: charting perspectives, positions and recommendations in four ‘managing diversity’ country reports (UK, France, Canada, Belgium)
Katayoun Alidadi (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)

17:50 Discussion

Saturday, 27 June 2015
Presentation and Discussion of Canadian Project 'Cultural and Religious Diversity in four national contexts: A comparative study of identity dynamics of the regulation of religion'
Chair: Joseph David (Oxford University, UK)

09:00 Introduction
Solange Lefebvre (University of Montreal, Canada)

09:15 National Commissions, Academics and Politics
Solange Lefebvre and Karel Leyva Rodriguez (University of Montreal, Canada)

09:40 Glocalizations of a Common Discourse: the United Kingdom and Quebec compared in the context of four national commissions on addressing diversity
Peter Beyer and Marie-Ève Larivière (University of Ottawa, Canada)

10:05 Control, Instrumentalize, and Cooperate: the relation between law and religion in four commission reports
Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens (University of Montreal, Canada)

10:30 Discussion of Canadian Project
11:00 Coffee break

Expert Statements: Session 1
Chair: Werner Menski (SOAS, University of London, UK)

11:20 Religion, Culture and Liberal Democracy
Geoffrey Brahm Levey (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

11:50 Discussion
12:10 Multiculturalism in Britain, the First 50 Years ... And the next?
Ralph Grillo (University of Sussex, UK)

12:40 Discussion
13:00 Lunch break

Expert Statements: Session II
Chair: Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

14:00 Religion in the Retreat of Multiculturalism
Christian Joppke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

14:30 Discussion
14:50 The Commission on Religion and Belief and Women – the British Experience
Maleiha Malik (King's College, London, UK)

15:20 Discussion

Expert Statements: Session III
Chair: Olaf Zenker (Free University, Berlin, Germany)

16:00 The European Court of Human Rights: fundamental assumptions that have a chilling effect on the protection of religious diversity
Eugenia Relaño Pastor (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

16:30 Discussion
16:50 State Churches, National Identity and Minority Religion in Scandinavia: levelling up or down?
Per Mouritsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

17:20 Discussion
17:40 Concluding Comments
Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology) and Varun Uberoi (Brunel University London)

19:30 Dinner & Final Discussion

Kontakt

Bettina Mann
Forschungskoordinatorin/Research Coordinator
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Postfach 11 03 51, D-06017 Halle/Saale
Telefon: +49 (0) 345-2927-501
Telefax: +49 (0) 345-2927-202

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