Studying contemporary Islam in the UK

A study day organised in conjunction with the BSA Sociology of Religion study group and the Muslims in Britain Research Network.

Saturday 23rd January, 2010,

Room 538, Malet Street building, Birkbeck College, University of London

As spaces for this event are limited, it is necessary to register in advance. Click here to register on-line.

Programme

10.15am     Coffee/Registration

10.30am     Welcome and introductions

‘Researching Islam in the UK: looking back and looking ahead’, Ron Geaves (Liverpool Hope)

11.30am     ‘Contesting Muslim pilgrimage: British-Pakistani identities, sacred journeys to

Makkah and Madinah, and the global postmodern’

Sean McLoughlin (Leeds)

‘British Muslim identities in comparative perspective’

Daniel Nilsson DeHanas (SOAS/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

12.30pm      Lunch

1.30pm        ‘The first registered mosque in the UK, Cardiff, 1860’: the evolution of a myth’

Sophie Gilliat-Ray (Cardiff)

‘Research of Muslims in Cardiff: a reflexive methodological discussion’

Jody Mellor (Cardiff)

2.30pm         ‘A minority within a minority: identity problems for white English converts to Islam’

Kevin Brice (Swansea)

‘Individualised Islam? Reflections from research on Muslim childhood’

Jonathan Scourfield (Cardiff)

3.30pm         Tea/coffee

3.45pm         Final plenary discussion: opening respondent, David Phillips (Liverpool)

4.30pm         End

For directions of how to get to Birkbeck, and the location of the College's main Malet Street building, see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/