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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |