Muslims and Political Participation in Britain
Conference Programme
DAY 1 - Friday 20th April
08:30 - 09:00: Registration
09:00 - 09:15: Welcome and introductory remarks
09:15 - 10:45 Panel 1: Civil society and social movements
Shabana Basheer (MADE in Europe)
Engaging young Muslims in campaigning on global poverty issues
Rosemary Hancock (University of Sydney)
‘Islamic’ Environmentalism in Great Britain
Khursheed Wadia (University of Warwick)
Muslim Women as Political Actors in the UK since 9/11
10.45 - 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45 Panel 2: Muslim representative organisations
Ekaterina Braginskaia (University of Edinburgh)
Official Muslim institutions in Britain and Russia: the Muslim Council of Britain and Russia’s Council of Muftis in comparative perspective.
Sean McLoughlin (University of Leeds)
The State and Muslim Organisations in Britain
Mohammad Mesbahi (The Islamic College, London)
A case study of MINAB in the UK
12:45 - 13:45: Lunch (all food is halal)
13:45 - 14:45 Panel 3: Theoretical and normative approaches
Nasar Meer (University of Northumbria)
Conceptualizing Muslim identity politics in Europe
Farid Panjwani (Aga Khan University)
‘Muslims’ in politics: some critical philosophical reflections on religion and citizenship
14.45 - 15.00: Dr Saeko Yazaki (University of Cambridge)
Presentation of "Contextualising Islam in Britain" publication.
15:00 - 17:00 Muslims in Britain Research Network AGM
18:00 - 19:30 Muslims and the Political Process in Scotland (Scottish Parliament)
DAY 2 - Saturday 21st April
09:15 - 10:45 Panel 4: Young people
Asma Mustafa (independent researcher)
Political participation among second-generation British Muslims: A qualitative exploration
Brooke Storer-Church (University of Bristol)
Facebook Groups as Potential Political Publics? Exploring ideas of the political amongst young British Muslim Facebook users
Tehmina Kazi (British Muslims for Secular Democracy)
Active citizenship: young Muslim leaders
10:45 - 11:15: Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45 Panel 5: The 2010 general election
Jan Dobbernack (University of Bristol)
Exploring Muslim identities in the 2010 Muslim Vote
Jamil Sherif (Muslim Council of Britain)
A Muslim civil society initiative: The YouElect Project
Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
Mosques and political participation. The case of the 2010 General election in Britain
12.45 - 13.45: Lunch (all food is halal)
13:45 - 15:15 Panel 6: Representation and participation
Stephen H. Jones (University of Bristol)
‘A System of Self-Appointed Leaders’? Differentiating between Modes of Muslim Representation in Britain
Justin Gest (Harvard University)
In God We Trust: The Effect of Islamic Religiosity on European and American Muslim Political Participation
Parveen Akhtar (University of Bristol)
Patronage Politics as Political Resource: the case of British Pakistanis
15.15 - 15.45: Coffee Break
15.45 - 16.00: Book launch
European Multiculturalisms (edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer).
16.00 - 17.30 Panel 7: European experiences
Sieglinde Rosenberger (University of Vienna)
Linking Muslim immigrants to politics: Immigrant-origin candidates and Muslim organizations in the 2010 municipal election in Vienna
Fatima Zibouh (University of Liege)
Politics, religion and identity: The case of Muslim politicians in Belgium
Joost Berkhout (University of Amsterdam) & Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchatel)
Patterns of Claims-Making on Civic Integration and Migration in Europe: Are Muslims Different?
17.30 - 18.00: Closing Round Table discussion
This article was published on May 3, 2012