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07 March 2012, 12:00 am
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Workshop 3: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space
7 March 2012
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Workshop 3: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space 7 March 2012 Chadwick G08 Image: 'Backyard' by Liz Hingley |
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Workshop 3: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space
This workshop investigates 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.
Questions which were explored in this workshop included: How are new religious buildings incorporated into contemporary urban spaces? What continuities are there with the emergence of religious architecture in earlier times? What significance do religious buildings and other markers in the urban landscape have for different religious communities? How are existing and new forms of religious spatial practice (processions, festivals, pilgrimage) incorporated into the urban environment? What kinds of transformations of urban space are produced by religious spatial practices? What role do faith groups play in the making and remaking of urban spaces?
PROGRAMME:
| 11am-1pm: | Session 1: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space: New Faith Spaces |
| Speakers |
Professor John Eade (Roehampton University/Migration Research Unit, UCL) Religious Place-Making and Migration across a Globalising City: Responding to Mobility in London |
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Ali Mangera (Mangera Yvars Architectural Practice) Designing faith spaces in the city: The Salaam Centre, North Harrow |
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Dr Richard Gale (School of City and Regional Planning, Department of Cardiff) '...make your dwellings into places of worship': mosque development and the politics of place and residence in the UK' |
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Dr Andrew Crompton (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool) Multi-faith spaces: a universal interface to God |
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| Chair | Dr Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography and Migration Research Unit) |
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1-2pm |
Lunch |
| 2-3.45pm | Session 2: Negotiating Faith in Urban Space: Continuity and Practice |
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Dr Nazneen Ahmed (Compass, University of Oxford) Making Muslim Space on the London Docks: Lascar Seafarers' Faith Practices, 1880-1945 |
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Liz Hingley (Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Migration Research Unit, UCL) Under gods: stories from Soho Road, Birmingham |
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Dr Claire Dwyer (Department of Geography and Migration Research Unit, UCL) Faith and Suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London's suburbs |
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Dr David Garbin (CRONEM, University of Surrey) Diaspora, suburban Christianity and the American 'New South': African migrant churches in Atlanta |
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Professor John Eade (Roehampton/UCL) |
| 3.45-4pm | Break |
| 4-6pm | Panel: Negotiating Faith in Urban Space: Politics and Praxis |
| Panelists |
Dr John Zavos, (South Asian Studies, University of Manchester) Small Acts, Big Society: Sewa and Hindu (nationalist) identity in the UK |
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Dr Luke Bretherton (Faith and Public Policy Forum, Kings College London) Community Organising, Religious Pluralism and Democratic Citizenship |
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David Garbin (CRONEM, University of Surrey) and Enrico Masi (University of Bologna, Italy) Soldiers of God in the Global City (Video Documentary) |
Convener:
Dr Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography)
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.
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.