On Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:30:10 -0500 (EST) Jennifer Spiegel 
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> Margaret - It's still working for now. Here's the text:
> 
> MUSLIM FAMILIES IN EUROPE: SOCIAL CARE PROVISION
> APRIL 23-24, 1999
> Islington Town Hall, Council Chambers
> Upper Street, London N1 
> 
> The University of North London, together with its partners the London 
> Borough of Islington Race Equality Unit and the Indo-Pakistan Cultural 
> Centre, are organising a conference to explore the place of Muslim 
> Families in Europe.
> 
> The conference will bring together scholars and social service 
> professionals from Europe to examine current political and ideological 
> debates on the Muslim presence in Europe; family support for the 
> diversity of Muslim families in Europe; empirical studies on Muslim 
> families; social policy and the theoretical framework of statutory and 
> voluntary care provision in Europe.
> 
> A new report Muslim Families in Europe: Social Existence and Social Care 
> by Fatima Husain and Margaret O'Brien will be launched at the conference. 
> This EU DGV-funded study describes the current situation of Muslim 
> families and social care provision in the United Kingdom, Belgium and 
> Denmark. Participating partners are:
> 
> Indo-Pakistan Cultural Centre, London
> Service Social des Etrangers d'Accueil et de Formation, Brussels
> Dokumentations og Radgivnings Centeret om Racediskrimination (DRC), 
> Copenhagen
> Race Equality Unit of the London Borough of Islington
> 
> Outline conference programme:
> 
> Friday, April 23
> 
> 9:00   Coffee/Tea and Registration
> 9:30   Welcome: Margaret O'Brien (UNL)
>        Derek Sawyer (Leader of Islington Council)  
> 9:45    Fatima Husain (UNL): Muslim Families in Europe: Social existence and social care
> 10:15  Keynote address:  Mustafa Hussain (DRC, Denmark)
>        Minorities and the media in Denmark
> 10:45  Questions and discussion
> 11:00  Coffee/tea break
> 11:30  Khursid Sultan (DRC, Denmark)
> 12:00  Keynote address: Yaseem Alibhai Brown (IPPR, London)
>        Imagining new Muslim identities in Europe
> 12:30  Questions and discussion
> 1:00   Buffet lunch
> 14:00  Parallel Symposia sessions:
> 
> Session 1: Family life: Intergenerational and gender dynamics
> 
> Trees V.M. Pels, Erasmus University Rotterdam
> Moroccan families: Gender dynamics and fathers' roles in a context of 
> change
> 
> Zahida Shah, University of Southampton
> British-Pakistani-Muslim women's role within the family and community
> 
> Saeed Zokaei and David Phillips, University of Sheffield
> Altruism, intergenerational relations and social welfare policies among 
> Muslims in the UK
> 
> Session 2: International perspectives on Muslim communities
> 
> Fiona Anderson, Loughborough University
> Bred to be in the house? Cultural relativism versus global human rights 
> and female ‘oppression' in modern Muslim society
> 
> Zafar Khan, University of Luton
> Muslim presence in Europe: The British dimension
> 
> Christiane Timmerman, CASUM, University of Antwerp
> The Islamization of modernity: Social networks among Moroccan and Turkish 
> women in Belgium
> 
> Farhat Yusuf, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
> Muslim families in Australia: A case study of Lebanese and Turkish 
> communities
> 
> 15:15  Coffee/tea break
> 15:30  Continue Symposia
> 17:00  Plenary round table discussion
> 17:30  Informal session to answer questions about Islam and Muslim families 
> 18.00  Close
> 19:30  Dinner at a local restaurant
> 
> Saturday April 24
> 
> 9:30   Coffee
> 10:00 Keynote address: Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
>       The place of Muslims in British secular multiculturalism
> 10:30  Questions and discussion
> 10:45  Parallel Symposia sessions:
> 
> Session 1: Child welfare and education
> 
> Laila Abdelcader, University of Uppsala, Sweden
> Independent schools in Sweden and the multicultural question
> 
> Kirsten Jeppesen, Danish National Institute of Social Research
> Ethnic minority children in Denmark
> 
> Marie Parker-Jenkins, University of Derby
> Children, Islam and education in Britain
> 
> Session 2: Contemporary social issues
> 
> Rudolf Richter and Johannes Pflegerl, University of Vienna
> Migrant family structures in contact with Austrian institutions
> 
> Sarah Sheriff, Muslim Women's Helpline, Wembley, London
> The Muslim Women's Helpline: A model of anti-oppressive care
> 
> Martha van Endt-Meijling, Windesheim University, The Netherlands
> Genies, mother's little helpers?
> 
> 12:30  Plenary closing session
> 1:00   Buffet lunch and close
> 
> Cost for attendance on Friday is £80; Saturday is £60. Concessionary 
> rates for students, voluntary organizations, and unemployed are £60 for 
> Friday and £45 for Saturday.
> 
> For further information and booking contact:
> 
> Jennifer Spiegel
> diverCities Research Centre
> Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies, 
> University of North London, Ladbroke House
> 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD, UK
> tel no: 0171 753 5061 
> fax: 0171 753 5176 
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> 
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> Jennifer Spiegel
> Research Administrator
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