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Race, Religion, Rhetoric and far-right extremism Conference 8th Feb 2025

8th Feb 2025 10:30am – 5:00pm

This conference will explore how the negative rhetoric and narratives linked to ‘race’ and religion, have fuelled far-right related activities over the last decade and a half (especially the riots in August 2024), and threaten the cohesiveness of communities on these shores. It will discuss how we arrived at this situation and explore what solutions the Church and civil society organisations can offer to challenge this proclivity.

Speakers

  • The Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon
  • Lord Simon Woolley, founding director of campaign group Operation Black Vote, and Principal of Cambridge University’s Homerton College
  • Dr Nadia Habashi, Director, Criminology, Justice and Policing, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London
  • Rt Hon. the Lord Boateng, former chair of the Church of England’s racial justice commission, and current member of the House of Lords
  • Dr Nicola Brady, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI)
  • Revd Wale Hudson-Roberts, Baptist Union, Racial Justice Advocacy Forum
  • Dr Maria Power: Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice
  • Revd Guy Hewitt, Head of Racial Justice Unit, Church of England
  • Revd Dr Helen Paynter: Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence
  • Prof. Anthony Reddie: Professor of Black Theology, University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Regents Park College, Oxford University

Workshops

  1. Race and the far-right.
  2. Religion and far-right extremism – a four-nations church response
  3. Rhetoric – the media and far-right extremism
  4. Policing, public safety, law and order

Lunch

A free light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Venue

Church House Westminster, 29 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3NZ.

Registration

Please register via Eventbrite.


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