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