Islam and the Changing Identity of Europe: Culture, Politics and Citizenship in an Era of Globalization

October 16-17, 1998
The Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club

Europe has been undergoing profound changes in our contemporary era of globalization, due in part to new Muslim populations which have sprung up in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and elsewhere. This Symposium will explore how some of Europe's Muslims view themselves, how they are viewed by non-Muslims, and how debates about identity, nationhood and citizenship are forcing all Europeans to rethink their collective identities as global citizens, as Europeans and as citizens of specific countries.

 

 

Friday, October 16, Seaborg Room

Conference Opening and Introduction
9:30am to 10:00am

Nezar AlSayyad, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC/B
Manuel Castells, Center for West European Studies, UC/B

 

Panel 1.  Islam in Europe: The Cases Of Britain and France
10:00am to 12:30pm

• "The Place of Muslims in British Secular Multiculturalism"
  Tariq Modood, University of Bristol



• "Race, Culture and Society: The French Experience with Muslims"
  Michel Wieviorka, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

 

 

Panel 2.  Globalization, Islam and Citizenship
2:00pm to 4:20pm

• "Europe's Painful Adjustment to Globalization: The Challenge of Islamic Networks for Citizenship Claims"
  Paul Lubeck, University of California at Santa Cruz



• "Islam and Europe: Is There a Search for a New Enemy?"
  Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies and The American University in Cairo

 

 

Saturday, October 17, Seaborg Room

Open Reception, Lobby of The Women's Faculty Club
5:00pm to 7:00pm

Panel 3.  Islam, Europe, and the Changing Nation-State
9:30am to 11:50am

• "Muslim Migrants in Europe between Euro-Islam and Ghettoization"
  Bassam Tibi, Georg-August University, Göttingen



• "The Nation-State, the European Union, and Transnational Identities"
  Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia/Charlottesville 

Panel 4. Final Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm to 12:40pm

Invited discussants from the University of California/ Berkeley include:
Hamid Algar, Victoria Bonnell, Ernst Haas, Renate Holub, Paul Rabinow and Michael Watts.

Symposium Co-Chairs: Professors Nezar AlSayyad and Manuel Castells
Symposium Coordinator: Dr Larry Michalak
Symposium Administrator: Ms Jane Turbiner

 

For further information and a full schedule of the symposium, contact the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (tel: 510.642.9314), or visit our website in early Fall Semester at http://cmes.berkeley.edu

A Symposium Cosponsored by The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and The Center for West European Studies, University of California, Berkeley