Public Lecture Series 09

zThe Islam-UK centre held its annual spring seminar series in Spring 09. 

The public lecture series was organised to aid the MA/Diploma students in 'Islam in Contemporary Britain' in their studies, but to also allow a chance for academics and students from other schools, and the general public, to attend and gain a better understanding on the various and dynamic aspects related to the study of Islam in the UK.

The series was organised in close dialogue with the Muslim Council of Wales and the Islamic Society of Cardiff University, reflecting the Islam-UK centres community links.

During the series, the Islam-UK team interviewed each speaker before their lecture, you can view the videos of the interviews on YouTube, the link is provided below each event.

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27th January 2009
Dilwar Hussain, Head of the Policy Research Centre, based at the
Islamic Foundation, Leicestershire
‘Faith and Nation: British Muslims and
Social Policy’
Interview: Part 1 Part 2 

3rd February 2009
Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, is the author
of Desperately Seeking Paradise (Granta Books, 2004) and Balti Britain
(Granta Books, 2008).
‘Islam, Public Space, and British Muslims’
Interview: Part 1 Part 2 

10th February 2009
Sadek Hamid, Programme Leader and Lecturer in Muslim Youth
Work at the University of Chester.
‘Young, Muslim, and British:
an introduction to a field’
Interview: Part 1 

17th February 2009
Shaykh Amjad Mohammad, Doctoral student at the University
of Bradford.
‘Recent Hanafi Fatawa in the British Context’
(with the Cardiff Centre for Law and Religion)
Interview: Part 1 

24th February 2009
Grahame Davies, poet, editor and literary critic in Welsh and English, Honorary
Research Fellow of Cardiff University's School of Religious and Theological Studies
‘The Welsh and the Muslims: contact, coexistence and
conflict in five centuries of literature’

3rd March 2009
Robina Mohammad, lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Plymouth
‘Pakistani Muslims in Britain: communities in
transition. A Birmingham focused case study’
Interview: Part 1 

10th March 2009
Bill Gent, works as an independent consultant and edits REsource, the journal of
the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE).
‘Inside the world of British mosque
supplementary classes’
Interview: Part 1 

17th March 2009
Nasar Meer, Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
(CSEC), University of Bristol.
‘Islamophobia: real or imagined?’
Interview: Part 1 

24th March 2009
Kerry Moore, lecturer in Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Justin Lewis, Professor of Communication and Head of the School of Journalism,
Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University
‘Representations of British Muslims in the Media’
Interview: Part 1 Part 2 

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