EU Citizenship and the Market
17 June 2011
This one-day conference is the closing element of our six-month project, in cooperation with the European Commission Representation in London, which aimed to examine rights and identities of European citizens. To what extent is citizenship of the Union going beyond the market today? Or is it in fact coupled increasingly firmly to it? And if so, is that necessarily a bad thing? Is talk of ‘mere’ market citizenship misguided if it provides not only real, tangible benefits for many citizens, but also leads them to identify more closely with their fellow Europeans?
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Europe & Islam in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
15 June 2011
This workshop investigates the role of culture and knowledge transfer between different religious communities, focusing, in this case, on exchanges between mediterranean culture of late antiquity and emerging Islam, Jewish-Islamic cultural transfer, and instances of knowledge transfer from Islamic sources to Jewish communities. Thus, the workshop proposes to understand religious communities as arenas of knowledge production and reception, as cultural contexts stimulating knowledge exchange and transfer.
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