Organised by MEL-net (International Research Network on Muslims in Lusophone Spaces, ICS-UL) in co-operation with European Muslim Network (EMN), Islamic Community of Lisbon (CIL) and Abrahamic Forum of Portugal Sponsored by the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) & Lusotopie (BRILL Academic Publisher Ltd) PROGRAMME 14:30 WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS Jorge Vala, President of the Scientific Council of ICS-UL Nina Clara Tiesler, Co-ordinator of MEL-net, ICS-UL 15-16:30 MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE ? REFLECTIONS AND CASE STUDIES Chair: Rabia Malik, Malborough Family Therapy Centre (UK) Where do Muslims Come from? AbdoolKarim Vakil, King´s College London (UK) The "Modernity" of Sacrifice: Qurbani, place and transnational migrations among Bangladeshis in Lisbon José Mapril, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Where do Young Portuguese Muslims go? Nina Clara Tiesler, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon 16:30-16:50 COFFEE BREAK 16:50-18:00 KEYNOTE AND PANEL DISCUSSION Keynote address Answering the Muslim Question: Euro-Islam and European Dreams S. Sayyid, Director, Centre of Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds Panel Discussion Chair and Opening Remarks: Tariq Ramadan, St. Antony´s College Oxford Participants: AbdoolKarim Vakil, José Mapril, Nina Clara Tiesler, S. Sayyid 18:00-18:30 BREAK & SNACKS 18:30-20:00 BOOK LAUNCH Islam en lusophonies - Islão nas lusofonias - Islam in Portuguese-Speaking Areas Special issue of the tri-lingual journal LUSOTOPIE (Brill), ed. by Nina Clara Tiesler Roundtable BEYOND GHARB AL-ANDALUS - HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS AND PRESENT-DAY REALITIES IN PORTUGAL Presentation & Chair: João de Pina Cabral, Director of Research, ICS-UL Participating authors: Maria Abranches (IOM Lisbon), Susana Bastos (CEMME-CRIA/UNL, Lisbon), David Cairns (ICS-UL), Eduardo Costa Dias (ISCTE, Lisbon, tbc), Rita Gomes Faria (UAM, Madrid), Eva-Maria von Kemnitz (UNL), José Mapril (ICS-UL), Nina Clara Tiesler (ICS-UL).