MEL-net and ICS-UL in cooperation with British Council, "Our Shared Europe" present the Workshop of Research in Progress and Symposium "Muslims in Europe and Islamophobia", organised by Nina Clara Tiesler, ICS-UL and AbdoolKarim Vakil, King´s College London.

The Portugal-based international academic Research Network MEL-net (Muçulmanos em Espaços Lusófonos; Muslims in Portuguese Speaking Areas, hosted at ICS-UL) and the initiative "Our Shared Europe" of the British Council share as major objectives the aim of promoting critical academic and wider public debate on perceptionsand experiences of Muslims in Europe.

To this end, a one day Workshop is being held at ICS which brings together research-in-progress on diverse aspects of Islam and Muslims in the European context from historical, contemporary and comparative perspectives.

The Workshop programme is organised in terms of two self-contained but complementary sessions.

The morning session with a more localised focus on Portugal and Spain showcases work in progress from research which ranges from shifting historical attitudes to the Islamic heritage of the Peninsula, colonial attitudes, policies and epistemological legacies, to the metropolitan and postcolonial history and formation of community structures and organisations, and the everyday lives and experiences of contemporary Muslims in these two countries.

The afternoon session is dedicated to a Symposium on Islamophobia and brings together the editors and two of the contributors to Thinking Thorugh Islamophobia, an edited collection of critical engagements with the history and politics of Islamophobia in global perspective.

Programme