Islam in Europe -työpaja Helsingin yliopistossa

Islam in Europe Workshop
University of Helsinki

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Venue: Unioninkatu 38, F205

10:15 Opening words and welcome
Professor Tuula Sakaranaho (University of Helsinki)

10:30 Islam and the secular in Europe: From canon to chaos
Professor Jørgen Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)

11:30 Turks in Europe : a religious or an ethnic minority?
Professor Samim Akgönül (University of Strasburg)

12:00 Lunch

Venue: F216

13:00 Legal Reform as a pathway of gender justice: The Case of Egypt’s
Muslim Family Laws, Dr. Mulki Alsharma

13:30 Headscarf Debates and National Identity in France
PhD Candidate Johanna Konttori

14:00 The Intersectional Identity of Muslim Youth
PhD Candidate Teemu Pauha

14.30 Coffee

14.45 Lived religion and the governance of Islam:
Comparative views on Somali women in Finland and in Canada
Dr. Marja Tiilikainen

15.15 The founding of the Islamic Council of Finland: Emancipation and state intervention
Dr. Tuomas Martikainen

15.45 Conclusion