2020 public lectures

Listings and videos of our seminar series in 2020.

Dr Maryyum Mehmood

Through the Target’s Lens: Lived Realities of Antisemitism and Islamophobia

19 February 2020

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Maryyum Mehmood is a Fellow and Centre Facilitator at The Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham. She is also a Research Associate at St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford.

Professor Mathew Guest

Anxiety and Stigma in the Lives of Muslim Students: How the “Radicalisation” Narrative Shapes Higher Education in Britain

4 March 2020

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Mathew Guest is Professor in the Sociology of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, where he has taught since 2004. He is the co-author of Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith (2013) and of Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain (2020).