Programmes
Islam-in-Europe The Islam-in-Europe Programme was launched in September 2004 at a Europaeum Summer School, Europe and Islam: Building Bridges, held at Leiden University.
The programme focused on a variety of questions, including how Islamic communities have settled and integrated in different European countries; the meaning and impact of Political Islam in Europe; understanding and interpreting Islamaphobia in Europe; tracing past and current perspectives of The Other with regard to Muslims in Europe; the impact of terrorism, the Middle East crisis, and Balkans crisis on European foreign policies; and, not least, European relations with Turkey. After confirmation of Turkey’s candidate status as a member of the EU, interest in Turkey, especially academic and intellectual links, grew enormously and following a successful symposium on Turkey in 2004, the Europaeum worked hard to promote an initiative in support of an independent Institute for European Studies to be attached to a leading Turkish university. A Europaeum Lecture was delivered by P r o f e s s o r Ta r i q Ramadan, the eminent I s l a m i c s c h o l a r, a t Oxford, linked to a Europaeum conference on Cultural Difference in Europe, in Warsaw, 2006.
Participants at the Social Cohesion Conference, St Antony’s College Oxford
Also in 2006, the University of Bologna hosted an international workshop on Islam and Citizenship in Europe, and in 2007 an international conference took place in Oxford, on Social Cohesion - The Oxford Paradigm. Advisory Group: Professors Wim van den Doel (Leiden), Philip Robins (Oxford), Erik-Jan Zürcher (Leiden), Pier Cesare Bori (Bologna), Wolfram Kinzig (Bonn) and Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Helsinki).
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