2 Jul 2023 - 12 Jul 2023 All day Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge

Description

Please note this is a closed event.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University at CRASSH is pleased to convene another two-week summer school for early career scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

After an outstanding set of workshops focused on the past and present of the university, we now turn towards the future. Building on three hugely successful Summer Schools that looked at the study of religion(s) across the humanities and social sciences, we will devote our project’s fourth and final Summer School to policy aspects of the relation between religious diversity and the secular university.

How is Higher Education policy made, and by whom? And how should academics share and participate in the making of policy decisions that determine the future of academic life?

We will approach these questions through the prism of one of the most urgent issues facing Higher Education today: the relationship between religious diversity and the secular university. How should policy makers – and academics – grapple with fundamental questions of religious diversity in secular universities? How do we safeguard our universities’ secular character as our student bodies become increasingly religiously diverse? How should we foster curricula that reflect the questions of an ever-changing society while safeguarding the practice of the university’s traditional disciplines? How do we prevent the university as a free space for the exchange and study of ideas as diverse as humanity from becoming a ‘safe space’ where, in the name of respect for diversity, young adults would never encounter ideas and opinions opposed to their own and learn to argue and think critically about them? Is Prevent really the best strategy to prevent extremism?

Throughout the Summer School, a stellar set of senior academics, administrators, policymakers, and religious thinkers will participate in our conversations:

For two weeks, our junior scholars will work with the scholars-in-residence as well as with the members of the CRASSH project, Simon Goldhill and  Theodor Dunkelgrün. Together, participants will study a set of primary sources selected by the senior scholars and engage critically with work-in-progress by each participant.


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‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’ is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to support a multi-disciplinary examination of the interplay between religion, secularism, and the role of the university, reference #41600622.

Programme

Sunday 2 July 2023

SG1, Alison Richard Building

16:30 - 18:00

Introduction: Gordon Marsden/Simon Goldhill/Theodor Dunkelgrün/Sami Everett

Monday 3 July 2023

SG2, Alison Richard Building

10:30 - 12:00

Session 1

Gordon Marsden

13:30 - 15:00

Session 2

Mariëtta van der Tol

16:00-17:30

Session 3

Cristobal Bellolio

Tuesday 4 July 2023

S1, Alison Richard Building

10:30-12:00

Session 1

Gordon Marsden

13:30-15:00

Session 2

Yang Shen

16:00-17:30

Session 3

Arif Ahmed

Wednesday 5 July 2023

S1, Alison Richard Building

10:30-12:00

Session 1

Alison Scott-Bauman

13:30-15:00

Session 2

Emmanuelle Degli Esposti

16:00-17:30

Session 3

Ariel Yingqi Tang

Thursday 6 July 2023

Wine Room, King’s College

10:30-12:00

Session 1

Mona Siddiqui

13:15-14:45

Session 2

Esra Tiryaki

15:30-17:00

Session 3

Stephen Timms

Friday 7 July 2023

Wine Room, King’s College

10:30-12:00

Session 1

Rowan Williams and Mona Siddiqui on religion and secularism

13:15-14:45

Session 2 

Connor Gearty, and Madelaine Atkins on free speech

15:30-17:00

Session 3

Alison Scott-Baumann and Nigel Thrift on the university

Monday 10 July 2023

SG1, Alison Richard Building

11:00-12:30

Session 1

Gordon Marsden and Jon Cruddas

13:30-15:00

Session 2

Anagha Ingole

16:00-17:30

Session 3

Anastasia Badder

Tuesday 11 July 2023

SG2, Alison Richard Building

10:30-12:00

Session 1

James Walters

13:30-15:00

Session 2

Szilvi Watson

16:00-17:30

Session 3

Nino Zhghenti

Wednesday 12 July 2023

SG1, Alison Richard Building

10:30-12:00

Session 1

James Walters

13:00-14:30

Session 2

Daan Oostveen

15:00-16:30

Session 3

Final roundtable: Gordon Marsden/Simon Goldhill/Theodor Dunkelgrün/James Walters

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