INFORM Seminar XLV
STATE REACTIONS TO NEW RELIGIONS
Saturday 20 November 2010, 9.30am - 5pm
Room D302, Clement House, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
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Registration (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 1 November 2010 costs £38 each (£20 students/unwaged). NB: Registration received after 1 November 2010 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
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Provisional programme:
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair and Honorary Director, Inform) "Promote, Protect, Prevent or Pay no heed?"
10.35 - 11.00: Ziya Meral (John Crapa Fellow at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom) "Politics of Religious Minorities in the Muslim-majority States; old challenges and new trends"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: A representative of MIVILUDES (Interministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combating Cultic Deviances) "The Situation in France"
11.50 - 12.15: Cole Durham (Professor Brigham Young University) "Legal Overview"
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada) "The Situation in Canada and the USA"
14.15 - 14.40: Lori Beaman (Canada Research Chair in the Contextualisation of Religion in a Diverse Canada, University of Ottawa) "Laws of General Application: The Legal Narrowing of Religious Freedom in Canada"
14.40 - 15.05: Ian Reader (Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester) "Japanese State Reactions to New Religious Movements"
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Ringo Ringvee (Ministry of Justice, Estonia) "Reactions to New Religions by the Baltic States"
15.55 - 16.20: Jamie Bartlett (Senior Researcher with Demos) "British Reactions to Radicalisations?"
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
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