Programme + Bios of the Speakers
CALL TO EUROPE V: ‘ISLAM IN EUROPE’ FINAL PROGRAMME DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 24th JUNE 2015 Venue: Concert Noble, Rue d'Arlon 82, 1000 Bruxelles Translation: EN/FR/IT/DE provided 08:30 REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE 09:00 – 10: 00 OPENING Massimo D’ALEMA, President of FEPS and former Prime Minister of Italy GiAnni PITTELLA, President of the S&D Group to the European Parliament 10:00 – 13:00 SESSION 1: POLITICS & RELIGION ACADEMICS POLICY MAKERS Marju LAURISTIN, Member of the European Parliament Cosimo ZENE, Reader in the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London Julie WARD, Member of the European Parliament HArtmut ELSENHANS, Professor Emeritus at Leipzig University Kader SEVINC, Representative to the European Union, CHP Elie BARNAVI, Historian and Diplomat, former Israel Republican People's Party Turkey Hurşit GUNES, Member of the Progressive Thought Ambassador to France Joël KOTEK, Historian, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ULB Institute, former Member of the Turkish Parliament REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES CIVIL SOCIETY IN EUROPE HAizAm AMIRAH-FERNÁNDEZ, Senior Analyst for the Philippe MARKIEWICZ, President of the Israelit Central Mediterranean and the Arab World, the Elcano Royal Institute Consistory of Belgium AmAndA FIGUERAS, Journalist, Multimedia Reporter, United Hocine BEN ADBERRAHMANE, historian and Imam at the Nations Alliance of Civilizations fellow Brussels El Azhar Mosque Ulf CARMESUND, Secretary General of Religious Social Henri BARTHOLOMEEUSEN, President of the Belgian Secular Democrats of Sweden Action Centre (CAL) and Co-Chairman of the Central Secular HAmid BENICHOU, Founder of “Initiatives citoyennes pour un Council (CCL) Islam de Belgique” TarAfA BAGHAJATI, Cultural Officer of the Islamic Community in Vienna, Chair of AMI ‘Austrian Muslim Initiative’, Member of ENAR’ Advisory Council S.E.
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