Seminars

The following seminars will be held at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies during Hilary Term 2012 on Wednesdays at 5.00 p.m. unless otherwise designated.

Islam in Europe

18 January Professor Jørgen S. Nielsen
University of Copenhagen
In Europe, who is Muslim?
25 January

Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer
University of Exeter

Thinking Beyond Radicalisation and Extremism: Disaggregating Security and Islam in Europe
1 February

Professor Leif Stenberg
Lund University, Sweden

Muslims in Sweden
8 February

Professor Ayhan Kaya
Istanbul Bilgi University

 

Islamophobia as a Form of Governmentality: Unbearable Weightiness of the Politics of Fear
15 February
Professor June Edmunds
University of Cambridge

Have human rights failed European Muslims?
22 February Dr Sara Silvestri
City University, London
Europe's Muslim women: Beyond the burqa controversy
29 February Professor Mary Hickman London Metropolitan University On Being ‘Suspect’: The impact on Irish Communities and Muslim Communities in Britain 1974 – 2007

Previous Seminars
Hilary Term 2009: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals: Strategies of Central Power
Trinity Term 2009: Islam and Science
Michaelmas Term 2009: The Muslim World Today
Hilary Term 2010: Muslims in the Media
Trinity Term 2010: Muslims in Britain
Michaelmas Term 2010: David Browning Seminar Series
Hilary Term 2011: History, Politics and Development in Muslim Societies
Trinity Term 2011: History, Politics and Economies in the Muslim World
Michaelmas Term 2011: The Arab Spring

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