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Dates & Times
Saturday 16 June
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
The Edge, Fed Square
The Atrium Flinders Street Federation Square Melbourne Victoria 3000
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Over four days, our 20 plus speakers – philosophers and theologians, historians and writers, believers and non-believers – will consider what it means to be religious, and what role the voice of faith may legitimately have in the conversations of citizens in a multicultural, democratic state and the community of nations.
Across Saturday, three keynote lectures from distinguished international guests each consider the challenges posed by – and to – faith in the building of modern communities. Following the three lectures, all three keynote speakers will be in discussion with each other, exchanging and challenging one another’s views.
To launch the day’s talks, one of Britain’s most eloquent advocates of multiculturalism, Tariq Modood, will explore the links between religious belief and a multicultural society. Appealing to the idea of a ‘multiculturalism of hope’, Modood brings his expertise in ethnic minorities, and UK Muslim communities in particular, to bear. In the Guardian he wrote, ‘Respect for religion and moderate secularism are kindred spirits and are sources of hope for a multiculturalism that gives status to religious, as to other, communities’.
For the full text of this lecture plus transcripts and recordings of the series, visit our Faith and Culture archive.
Featuring
Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood is one of Britain’s most eloquent advocates of a ‘multiculturalism of hope’. In the Guardian he wrote, ‘Respect for religion and moderate secularism are kindred spirits and are sources of hope for a multiculturalism that gives status to religious, as to other, communities’. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations.
Modood is a regular contributor to the media and to policy discussions in Britain and was a member of the Commission on the Future of the Multi-Ethnic Britain (the Parekh Report). He is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He has led many research projects on ethnic minorities and Muslims in the UK and in Europe and has published extensively on these topics, especially on the theory and politics of multiculturalism.
His latest books include Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, Still Not Easy Being British, and as co-editor Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness (2011) and European Multiculturalisms.