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10:20 Registration

10:50 Chairman’s opening comments
Savita Vij, Editor, CultivAsian

11:00 Keeping the faith: should we be delegating politics to God?
- Temples of doom: examining the role of religious schools in society
- Are we breeding a generation of religious androids?
- Lost souls: the radicalisation of religion
- Are community faith leaders destroying our communities?

Moderator:
Dolan Cummings, Research Director, Institute of Ideas

Panellists:

Dr Gargi Bhattacharyya, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Philip Bond, Professor of Theology, Lancaster University
Gurjeet Kaur, Editor, The Sikh Times
Tahir Alam, Assistant Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain

12:00 Rooting apathy out: is it time for a new grassroots political revolution?
- Who cares about political apathy?
- Examining whether “Gandhigiri” could work in the 21st century
- Should political power and authority be completely devolved to local communities?
- Student politics: is it more about “open all hours” than open minds?

Moderator:
Munira Mirza, Founding Member, Manifesto Club

Panellists:
Lee Jasper, Senior Policy Advisor, GLA
Salma Yaqoob, Vice Chair, Respect Party
Ruqayyah Collector, Black Students Officer, NUS
Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, St Philips Centre for Study & Engagement

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Charity starts at home: Do minority ethnic communities care about development work?
- International development work: is it a white man’s burden?
- Make Poverty History campaign”: guilty conscience or genuine political activism
- Should third world debt be kept to the third world?

Moderator: Dr Chris Allen, Professor, Birmingham University

Panellists:
Ceri Dingle, Director, WORLDwrite
Murad Qureshi, Assembly Member, GLA
Kofi Mawuli Klu, Joint Coordinator, Rendezvous for Victory
Audrey Miller, Director, Jubilee Debt Campaign
Ruth Thompson, Campaigner, Oxfam

15:00 “Racist relations: we should all stick to our own kind”
- Lifting the veil on inter-community racism
- Is it simply a game of economics that shapes and divides communities?
- Neighbourhood watch: does anyone care about community cohesion?
- Backyard politics: why the government should keep its nose out?

Moderator:
Mahtab Khan, Presenter, New Style Community Radio

Panellists:
Ted Cantle, Associate Director, IDeA
Joy Warmington, Director, BRAP
Karen Chouhan, Executive Director, The 1990 Trust
Tahir Abbas, Director, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, Birmingham University

16:00 Chairman’s closing conclusions

16:05 Networking drinks

17:00 Close of conference

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