Interfaith and Social Change Conference 2010:
Programme Details

KEYNOTES

Monday 18.00-19.00

Michael Northcott
Buddhist Rituals, Mosque Sermons and Marine Turtles: Religion, Ecology and the Conservation of a Dinosaur

Tuesday 13.00-14.00

Ian Jamison
Tony Blair Faith Foundation

PAPERS

Monday: 10.30-12.00

Abrahamic Encounters

Wendy Fidler:
A Study to Determine the Attitudes of Anglicans towards Jews in England in 2008

Mehri Niknam MBE:
Muslim-Jewish Dialogue

Douglas P. Green:
Three Siblings in Prophetic Ministry and Action: A Trialogical Discussion

Peace and Social Change

Gurmeet Singh Sidhu:
tbc

Mahnaz Salami, Mehdi Damali Amiri, Firouzeh Akbari:
Iran

Vivienne Woolston:
The spiritual journey of a peace maker

Monday: 5-6

Local Encounters

Mel Prideaux:
'Face to Face and Side by Side' in a neighbourhood of south Leeds

Ray Gaston:
Christian peace witness as dialogical encounter – reflecting on a story from Leeds

Music and Stories

June Boyce-Tillman:
The Space for Peace Music Project: The Potential role of music in the valuing of diversity

Corinne Buckland:
The Picturebook as a Medium of Interfaith Encounter and Agent of Social Change

Tuesday 10.30-12.00

Reflecting on Interfaith

Zakaryya Mohamed Abdel-Hady:
Interfaith Encounters: from “talking interfaith” to “acting interfaith” challenges to overcome

John Smith:
Interfaith - banality or purpose?

Dr Andrew Orton:
Interfaith Dialogue: Key Questions for Developing Public Policy Strategies

Interfaith: alternative perspectives

Helene Egnell:
The Margins is a Good Place for Dialogue: Feminist Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue

Andrea Borella:
The Peculiar Interfaith Dialogue and Action of the American Plain People

Sima Barmania:
Global Health

WORKSHOPS

Tuesday 14.00-15.00

Maggy Whitehouse:
Jewish mysticism as an Interfaith tool

Yafiah Randall:
tbc

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