Negotiating Religion: Workshop 4
12 June 2012, 12:00 am
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Workshop 4: Legal Frameworks: Schools and Religious Freedom
12 June 2012
Workshop 4: Legal Frameworks: Schools and Religious Freedom 12 June 2012 followed by reception Moot Court Room |
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Workshop 4: Legal Frameworks: Schools and Religious Freedom
This fourth and final workshop will examine the extent to which legal frameworks and judicial decisions allow a space for negotiating with religious demands.With a focus on education, the workshop will explore the tensions between human right requirements and the national compromises reached in relation to religion at school.
In a human rights era, European States are increasingly under pressure to have due regard to individual claims to religious manifestation at school. Simultaneously, States struggle to formulate a coherent approach to religion which is both faithful to their national traditions and constitutional national frameworks and respectful of the growing diversity in religious practices and attitudes towards religion within their societies.
The claim that any of these approaches to religion - whether embedded in national compromises or in human rights law - may be "neutral" will be assessed critically.
Through recent case law and legislation, the sessions will in turn consider issues surrounding religious symbols and clothing at school; religious education; religion and staff and religious schools.
Questions will include: Does this negotiation take place with religious communities or directly with the individuals who claim that their religious freedoms have been infringed? What are the main actors of the negotiating process? Who benefits from it? What are the risks of « negotiating »? Is « negotiation » the best way to reach a fair compromise between conflicting rights and claims? Is negotiating with religious freedoms any different to negotiation in respect of other human rights? What special features/dangers derive from the school context in which this negotiation takes place? What does teaching in a secular institution imply?
PROGRAMME:
9.15 |
Registration |
9.45 | Welcome Address |
10.00 |
SESSION I SEEING RELIGION: RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND CLOTHING |
Speaker | Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL) |
Discussants |
Professor Patrick Weil (CNRS / Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University) |
Professor Maleiha Malik (King's College London) | |
Chair |
Professor Mark Hill QC (Cardiff Law School / 3 Pump Court Chambers) Professor Cécile Laborde (UCL) |
11.20 |
Refreshment Break |
11.50 |
SESSION II TEACHING RELIGION: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND GENERAL SYLLABUS |
Speaker | Professor Ian Leigh (Durham University) |
Discussants |
Peter Cumper (Leicester University) |
Frank Cranmer (Cardiff Law School) | |
Chair |
Professor Eric Barendt (UCL) |
13.20 | Lunch |
14.20 |
SESSION III RELIGION AND STAFF |
Speaker |
Professor Lucy Vickers (Oxford Brookes University) |
Discussants |
Colm O'Cinneide (UCL) |
Dr Ronan McCrea (UCL) |
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Chair | Dr Tobias Lock (Surrey University) |
15.20 |
Refreshment break |
16.20 |
SESSION IV FAITH SCHOOLS |
Speaker |
Professor Julian Rivers (Bristol University) |
Discussants |
Dr Julia Ipgrave (Warwick University) |
Dr Peter Petkoff (Brunel University) |
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Chair |
Dr Javier Oliva (Manchester University) |
17:50 | Closing Remarks |
18:00 |
Reception. All welcome |
Convener:
Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL Laws)
For further information on the individual sessions or the series as a whole, please contact: Dr François Guesnet or Dr Uta Staiger.
Previous workshops
23 November 2011
Workshop 1: European Legacies, European Challenges
This first workshop addressed the history of
religious conflict and accommodation, and gauged the impact of religious
skepticism and secularization in Europe.
More detail and programme HERE.
10 February 2012
Workshop 2: Accommodating Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe - Constitutional and Philosophical Dimensions
This workshop examined the character of the contemporary European
state in its relation with religions and religious pluralism, and the
general policies developed by states to address religious affairs.
Details and programme HERE.
7 March 2012
Workshop 3: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space
This workshop investigated the spatial incorporation of religious
communities in the city both in the form of the material urban
environment, for example in the presence of religious buildings and
other faith spaces, and in everyday urban cultures, practices and
politics.
Details and programme HERE.
The series is coordinated by the European Institute and UCL's Research Initiative Religion and Society (supported by the Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction).
Throughout, the organisers hope to engage UCL's community in a discussion about what
London's global university could or should contribute to a reflection of
these issues as a leading institution in research and in higher
education, and as an academic community.