Woodrow Wilson Center To Hold Conference on Europe and Islam

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars [Washington, DC]
June 23, 2010

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1561/woodrow-wilson-center-to-hold-conference-on

Beyond Cairo : Visions of a New Decade in European Islamic Relations

June 23, 2006, 6^th Floor Flom Auditorium – 8:45 am – 3:00 pm

Keynote Address:

Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference,

Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State

Panels:

A. National Politics and Minority Treatment: Assimilation and Integration

• Moderator: Nazia Hussain, Director, At Home in Europe Project, Open Society Institute
• Tufyal Choudhury, Durham University Law School , (UK) and Open Society Institute
• H.A. Hellyer, University of Warwick (UK)
• Luc Véron, Delegation of the European Union (Washington, DC)

B. Implications for Human Rights: Ensuring Social Cohesion and Inclusion

• Moderator: Sonya Michel, Director, United States Studies (WWICS)
• Rebeya Müller, Institute for Interfaith Education and Teaching (Germany)
• Daut Dauti, Center for Islamic Pluralism
• Bassam Tibi, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)

C. European Radicalism: Debating European Identity and Cultural Challenges to Turkey 's EU accession

• Moderator: Nida Gelazis, Senior Program Associate, European Studies (WWICS)
• Jocelyn Cesari, Harvard University
• Rahsaan Maxwell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Senem Aydin Duzgit, Center for European Policy Studies (Brussels) and Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey)
  

For further information please e-mail [email protected].

* This conference is being organized by the following programs within the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: the Southeast Europe Project, European Studies Program, Middle East Program and Division of United States Studies. This conference is partially sponsored by the Open Society Institute's At Home in Europe Project and the Center for Islamic Pluralism.

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