Organisers:
Olivier Roy, in the framework of the Mediterranean Programme (RSCAS, EUI)
Christopher Kutz (University of California, Berkeley)
Heddy Riss (University of California, Berkeley)
Villa Malafrasca
Via Boccaccio 151
50133 Florence
Thursday 16 Dec
18:30 Keynote Speech by Olivier Roy and Marco Ventura
Friday 17 Dec
09.00-10.00 Ofrit Liviatan
Rethinking Law's Role in European Debates over Islam through Europe's Experience with Abortion Reform
Discussant: Christopher Kutz
10.00-11.00 John Morijn
Protecting religious identity in the European Public Sphere: Human rights, requirements, remaining policy-options and judicial control
Discussant: Valerie Amiraux
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Yüksel Sezgin and Mirjam Künkler
Contesting Boundaries of Private and Public: Religious Law in India and Indonesia
Discussant: Olivier Roy
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Harun Karcic
Shari'a norms in a secular state: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Discussant: Marco Ventura
15.00-16.00 Elise Massicard
Recasting Islamic Heterodoxy: The Judicialization of Alevism in Turkey and Europe
Discussant: Patrick Haenni
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Stefano Allievi
Islam in Europe: the Road to Exceptionalism
Discussant: Nadia Marzouki
Saturday 18 Dec
Co-Chairs: Patrick Haenni and Olivier Roy
09.00-10.30 Synthesis and round-table
11.00-12.30 Prospective, proposals