Civil Sphere and Radicalization ~ Program

Civil Sphere and Radicalization
A conference hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL),
University of Aberdeen
Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd October, 2017
Academic coordinators: Jeffrey Alexander, Farhad Khosrokhavar and Trevor Stack
Conference administrator: Eve Hayes de Kalaf

  Friday 20th October
 

Introduction

9:30

Welcome

Sir Iain Diamond, Principal of the University of Aberdeen

Trevor Stack, Jeffrey Alexander and Farhad Khosrokhavar (co-organisers)

 

Theme 1. Radical Protest in Contemporary Europe: Jihadism and the Far Right and Left

10:30

Farhad Khosrokhavar “Disaffected Versus Middle-Class Jihadists and the Civil Sphere”

11:30

Tea, coffee and biscuits

12:00

Volker Heins and Christine Unrau “A Mirror Image of Jihadism: European Anti-Immigration Movements and the Fracture of the Civil Sphere”

1:00 Sandwich lunch
2:00

Maria Luengo Cruz and Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk “Reporting on Muslim Immigration in Europe: Radicalization, Civil Repair, and the Democratic Values of Professional Journalism”

3:00

Response by Peter Kivisto, followed by open discussion

4:00 Reception
5:00

Lecture: Jeffrey Alexander “Social Crisis and Societalization: Financial Crisis and Media Phone Hacking”

7:15 Dinner at Rishi’s, George St. for all conference participants
  Saturday 21st October
 

Theme 2. Radical Protest and the Negotiation of Incorporation

9:30 AM

Yasushi Xavier Tanaka-Gutiez, “We all came together that day’: The 2011 English Riots, Solidaristic Radical Protest and the Bourgeois Civil Sphere”

10:30 AM

Stephen F. Ostertag “Black Radical Protests and the US Civil Sphere”

11:30 AM

Tea, coffee and biscuits

12:00

Trevor Stack “Radical Protest and the Civil Sphere in Constitutional Democracy”

1:00 Sandwich lunch
2:00

Response by Liv Egholm, followed by open discussion

3:00

Tea, coffee and biscuits

 

Theme 3. Violence versus Non-Violence in Radical Protest

3:30

Anne Kane “Violent Protest, the Civil Sphere and Social Solidarity in Northern Ireland;

4:30

End of session and walk around campus (weather permitting)

6:30 Dinner at Pizza Express, Belmont St for all conference participants
  Sunday 22nd October
9:30 AM

Carlo Tognato, “Civil Transition and Radical Protests: Lessons along the Path to a Post-Conflict Colombia”

10:30 AM

Maeve Cooke “Disobedience as Civil Renovation: Ethical Transformations in the Civil Sphere”

11:30 AM

Tea, coffee and biscuits

12:00

Response by Jeffrey Alexander, followed by open discussion

1:00 Concluding Discussion
1:30

Buffet lunch and end of conference