Translating secularism/Traduire la laïcité Event

- Time:
- 10:30 - 13:30
- Date:
- 18 - 19 September 2015
- Venue:
- Institut Français de Londres.
For more information regarding this event, please email tstl2015@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Varieties of secular society 18-19 September 2015 Institut Français de Londres
Friday 18th September
10.30-11.00 Welcome and introduction to the colloquium (Michael Kelly, University of Southampton)
11.00-12.00 Theories and Practices
Murat Akan (Boğaziçi University) ‘Diversité: Challenging or Constituting Laïcité?’
Patrick Loobuyck (Antwerp University), Secularism, state neutrality and reasonable accomodation
12.00-14.00 Break
14.00-15.30 Laïcité and Religion
Brian Sudlow (Aston University), ‘BauBérot, Dagens and the future of laïcité’
Xavier Boniface (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), ‘ Les services d’aumonerie et la laïcité en France’
Michael Kelly (University of Southampton), ‘Laïcité and the new French atheists’
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 laïcité: Historical Perspectives
Hervé Baudry (CHAM/Université nouvelle de Lisbonne), ‘Laïcité et athéisme : traduire Jean Meslier’
Melissa K Byrnes (Southwestern University), Harnessing Religion in the Service of empire: French Laïcité v.British Laissez-faire’
Burcu Gursel (Kirklareli University), ‘The Ruins, Revisited: C. F. Volney's Revolutionary Anti-Religiosity and Ottoman-Turkish Constitutionalism’
17.30-18.30 Wine Reception
Saturday 19th September
10.00-11.30 laïcité and Identity
Jennifer Guyver (McGill University), ‘Secularism/laïcité and Identity Making in Quebec’
Mayyada Kheir (CESOR,CNRS-EHESS), ‘Du français au français : le discours sur la laïcité entre France
et Québec’
Tim Verhoeven (Monash University, Australia)Secularism/Laïcité in a trans-Atlantic framework
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.30 Islam and Laïcité
Olivier Esteves (Lille 3), ‘Abdelmalek Sayad, historicizing a sociologist’s writings on laïcité’
Soufian Al Karjousli (SUPELEC), ‘L’histoire des religions à l’épreuve de la laïcité et du pluralisme, exemple de l’enseignement de l’histoire de l’islam de cinquième’
Nadia Kiwan (university of Aberdeen), ‘Islamic Secularism in Contemporary France: Malek Chebel’s islam des lumières project’
13.30 End of the conference
To register for this event, please email : tstl2015@soton.ac.uk with the following information : full name / dept and institution / contact email address / days wishing to attend / dietary and access requirements.
Spaces are limited and therefore you are not registered to attend until you receive a confirming email.