Social Cohesion: New Challenges to the established order
Ardencote Manor Hotel, Claverdon, Warwick, UK 15-18 November 2007

Draft Program


Chairman: The Baroness Deech DBE, Hon LLD
Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education

  9.00am Opening of colloquium


Mr Philip Peacock, Chairman of the UK Committee, and Professor Robert Wolfe, Canadian organiser will say a few words of welcome and hand over to the Chairman
 

9.15am Session 1: Social Inclusion: Current Challenges

UK: Ms Sukhvinder Stubbs: Chief Executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust See Abstracts
Social Inclusion: Current Challenges

Canada: Professor Keith Banting CM: School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University See Abstracts
Belonging? Multiculturalism and Social Integration in Canada

 

10.45am Coffee

 

11.00am Session 2: The Security Challenge

UK: Mr Robert Whalley CB: Consultant Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) See Abstracts
The Security Challenge.

Canada: Mr Jim Judd: Director, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
Remarks to the Canada-UK Colloquium: Security and Diversity

 

12.45pm Lunch

 

2.00pm Session 3: Engaging with Muslim Communities

UK: Professor Tariq Ramadan: Oxford University

Canada: Professeure Denise Helly: Institut national de recherche scientifique, Montréal See Abstracts
Are Muslims discriminated against in Canada since September 2001?
2007 CANADA – UK Colloquium Social Cohesion: New Challenges to the established order

 

3.45pm Session 4: Beyond Multiculturalism: The Challenges of Multiple
Identities


UK: Mr Trevor Phillips OBE: Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission See Abstracts

Canada: Professor Robert Wolfe: School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University* See Abstracts
*Professor Wolfe’s paper will be written in collaboration with Professor Roderick Macdonald of McGill University

Background: Beyond Multiculturalism: National Policies and the Challenges of Multiple Identities
2007 CANADA – UK Colloquium Social Cohesion: Beyond Multiculturalism: National Policies and the Challenges of Multiple Identities

 

7.30pm The Colloquium Dinner
Speaker: Hon. Jason Kenney, PC, MP (Calgary South): Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity. See Abstracts

 

Saturday 17th November

 

9.00am Session 5: Competing Sources of Authority in a Pluralist Society

UK: His Honour Judge Mota Singh QC (Retd.)See Abstracts
2007 Canada-UK Colloquium: Competing Sources of Authority in a Pluralist Society

Canada: Hon. Marion Boyd: former Attorney- General of Ontario, Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada See Abstracts

 

10.45am Session 6: New Approaches

UK: Professor Mona Siddiqui FRSE, FRSA: Glasgow University See Abstracts
Canada: Hon. Senator Mobina Jaffer, Senate of Canada (Representing the Province of British Columbia) See Abstracts

 

2.00pm Rapporteur’s report

Professor Francis Robinson CBE: Royal Holloway, University of London

 

 

 

 

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