Leading academics attend workshop

EUROPEAN academics will attend a workshop in Oldham looking at the attitudes of and about Muslims in Western Europe and beyond.

University Campus Oldham (UCO) is hosting the event a decade after the 9/11 attacks and the riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford.

Eleven academics from across Europe will speak at the workshop, “Local and Global Perspectives of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts”, on December 15. They will share their experiences of how attitudes have changed in their local community.

The event has been organised by Dr Jamie Halsall, senior lecturer in social sciences at UCO, along with Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, and VU University, Amsterdam.

Topics will include integration versus segregation, diaspora, fundamentalism and radicalism, and the representation of Muslims in media and fiction. It is hoped that it will lead to research being published in the on-line journals Global Built Environment Review and South Asian Cultural Studies.