Category: Past Events Published Date
Date: 13 Mar 2009
Title: A Creative Minority for Spiritual and Social Renewal: The Challenge for Muslims in Britain Today
Speakers: Dr. Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
Event Details
In association with IIIT UK.
Dr. Jeremy Henzell-Thomas is Executive Director of the Book Foundation, a registered UK charity working with worldwide partner institutions to improve understanding of Islam in the West.
He was the first Chair of FAIR (UK Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the AMSS (UK).
He holds degrees in English and Linguistics from London and Edinburgh universities, and a Ph.D. in applied psycholinguistics from the University of Lancaster.
He has worked at many levels in education both in the UK and overseas, as a teacher, academic director, curriculum development specialist, schools inspector, university lecturer, doctoral research supervisor and educational consultant. He speaks widely on the themes of education, society and spirituality, and writes regular columns for Islamica and emel magazines. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Islamica and a contributing editor of The American Muslim.
His recent international conference papers, including plenary addresses, have been delivered at the Gustav-Stresemann Institut, Bonn (2002), University of Surrey, Roehampton (2003), University of Indiana, Bloomington (2003), University of Edinburgh (2004), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London (2005), University of Durham (2005), University of Westminster (2007) and University of Birmingham (2008). His most recent keynote address, "Beyond the Tower of Babel: A Linguistic Approach to Clarifying Key Concepts in Islamic Pluralism" was delivered at the AMSS conference on Citizenship, Security and Democracy in Istanbul in 2006. In December 2008, he introduced a working session addressing Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna.