Leiden University is hosting a conference on ‘Innovative forms of Islamic higher education in Western Europe‘ from 3-4 April 2017.
The Programme:
Monday 3 April 2017
MEETING AND MERGING OF SPACES AND DIDACTIC APPROACHES
| 8.45 | Registration and coffee/tea |
Session 1 | Introducing the topic
| 9.15 | Welcome |
| 9.30 | Prof. dr. mr. Maurits Berger (Leiden University, Leiden Islam Academy and LUCIS), Leiden Islam Academy: an innovative approach |
| 10.10 | Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University), Innovative forms of Islam education. Providing a conceptual framework |
| 11.00 | Break |
Session 2 | The insider/outsider perspective in the study of Islam
Chair: Prof. dr. Göran Larsson (Göteborg University)
| 11.30 | Prof. dr. Riem Spielhaus (Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research), Integration of Islamic Theology into Western European academia |
| 12.10 | Dr. Jan Felix Engelhardt (University of Frankfurt), Getting beyond the Islamic Studies/Islamic Theology divide. The self-understanding of professors in Islamic Theology programs in Germany |
| 13.00 | Lunch break |
Session 3 | Private institutes of higher Islam education and moments of meeting with secular universities
Chair: Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University)
| 14.00 | Elif Medeni (University of Vienna), Religious pedagogics between secular universities and private institutes |
| 14.40 | Anne Dijk (Fahm Institute), Experiences from the Fahm Institute in the Netherlands |
| 15.20 | Break |
Session 4 | Innovative didactics for teaching Islam
Chair: Prof. dr. Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS, University of London)
| 15.40 | Dr. Matthew Wilkinson (Research Fellow in Islam in Education & Law at SOAS, University of London and Director of Curriculum for Cohesion), Bridging the ‘unserious’ gap between critical and confessional Islamic education: Islamic critical realism |
| 16.20 | Rasit Bal (Hogeschool InHolland Amsterdam), Teaching hermeneutics and reflexivity while meeting the needs of the students |
| 17.00 | Leontine van Melle and Monique Snijder (Centre for Innovation, Leiden University), Workshop: how to teach Islam online |
| 19.00 | Dinner for speakers and invited guests |
Tuesday 4 April
MEETING SOCIETAL DEMANDS
Session 5 | Communities as receivers
Chair: Prof. dr. Maurits Berger (Leiden University)
| 9.10 | Dr. Ali Özgür Özdil (Islamisches Wissenschaft- und Bildungsinstitut e.V.) Experiences from Islamisches Wissenschafts- und Bildungsinstitut Hamburg |
| 9.50 | Mieke Groeninck (KU Leuven), Modes of apprehension of Islamic knowledge among female students in mosque education |
| 10.30 | Break |
Session 6 | Reaching public audiences
Chair: Dr. Yaser Ellethy (VU Amsterdam)
| 11.00 | Dr. Meryem Kanmaz (former director of Mana vzw, Belgium), Mana as educational platform for public debate on Islam. Societal demands and political constraints |
| 11.40 | Naima Lafrarchi, (researcher and Islamic RE teacher, Flemish Community), Islam in higher education in Flanders: innovations made and questions left |
| 12.20 | Lunch break |
Session 7 | Teaching Islam at the interchange of religion, state and society
Chair: Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University)
| 13.20 | Prof. dr. Alison Scott-Baumann (Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS), Islamic Studies in Britain: describing interstitial spaces |
| 14.00 | Closing session: Emerging new directions in Islamic higher education in Western Europe |
16.00 End of conference