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SUMMARY:Herford Memorial Lecture: Charles Burdett: Italy\, Islam and the 
 Islamic World from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings
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DESCRIPTION:The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as It
 aly’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has gener
 ated an intense and often polarized debate that has involved all the cul
 tural\, political and religious institutions of the country and some of 
 its most vocal and controversial cultural figures. The talk examines som
 e of the most significant voices that have made themselves heard in defi
 ning Italy’s relationship with Islam and with the Islamic world\, in a p
 eriod of remarkable geopolitical and cultural upheaval from 9/11 to the 
 Arab Spring. It looks at the nature of the arguments that writers\, jour
 nalists and intellectuals have adduced regarding Islam and at the connec
 tions and disjunctions between opposing positions. It considers how even
 ts such as military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq or the protests
  in Tahrir Square have been represented within Italy and it analyses the
  rhetorical framework within which the issue of the emergence of Islam a
 s an internal actor within Italian civil society has been articulated.\n
 \nCharles Burdett is Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A7\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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