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Organized by         Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen              EurIslam network, PRISME, University of Strasbourg     Place: Alexandersalen, Bispetorvet 1-3, K&#248;benhavn K.The international conference will focus on the following overlapping and interlocking dimensions:1. The processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics: Voting patterns and representation in local and national assemblies; the place of Islam as an identifying factor &#8211; do candidates highlight or marginalize their &#8216;Muslimness&#8217; (and what is &#8216;Muslim&#8217; in this context?); the relationship between Muslim and ethnic identities in the political processes.&#160;&#160; 2. Internal Muslim debates about political participation in Europe: Attitudes of Muslims to the democratic processes; views for and against political participation in non-Muslim society; who can/should represent Muslims, or are there other priorities?&#160;&#160; 3. Public discourses about Muslim participation; political participation as a method or consequence of integration; state policies regarding Muslim political participation; relationship between participation and citizenship; is Muslim participation welcomed or contingent on privatizing the faith?&#160;&#160;&#160; Programme outline&#160;6-8 October 2010Plenary lectures&#160;         1st Plenary: Tufyal Choudhury, Durham Law School, Senior Policy Advisor, Open Society Institute. At Home in Europe Project: Muslims in EU Cities              2nd Plenary: Prof. Aminah McCloud, DePaul University, Chicago. Who speaks for Islam and how do they speak?&#160;              3rd Plenary: Dr Franck Fregosi, PRISME, University of Strasbourg. Forms of collective mobilization of Muslims in France and in contemporary Europe: new issues and new types of involvement.&#160;              4th Plenary: Prof. Thijl Sunier, VU Amsterdam. Beyond the domestication of Islam in Europe&#160;     Parallel paper session 1&#160;Group A &#8211; Chair:&#160; Anne-Laure Zwilling&#160;         Alexander Castilla (Independent researcher). Muslims in Catalonia: Misunderstandings, reciprocity and the search for group cohesion&#160;              Maria Bombardieri (Milan). The dawning of Muslim political participation in Italy&#160;              Luis Bernardo (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal). The political accommodation of Islam in Ireland and Portugal: Institutional configurations and religious diversity&#160;&#160;     Group B &#8211; Chair:&#160; J&#246;rn Thielmann&#160;         Mustafa Osman Turan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey). Political interactions between immigrant organizations and &#8220;liberal&#8221; states in Europe&#160;              Niels Valdemar Vinding (CEIT, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). The necessity of Muslim political participation&#160;     Group C &#8211; Chair:&#160; Riem Spielhaus&#160;         Mohammad Mesbahi and M.Samiei (University of Surrey and Islamic College, UK). A case study of MINAB in the UK&#160;              Deniz Kosulu (Political Science, Institut d&#8217;Etudes politiques d&#8217;Aix-en-Provence, France). The Alevi quest in Europe: From a religious and cultural recognition to the entry into the political area     Parallel paper session 2&#160;Group A &#8211; Chair:&#160; Franck Fregosi&#160;         Justin Gest (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK). Interrogating alienation: Classical social theory in the global era&#160;              Marion Maddox (Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia). Muslim political participation: A comparative perspective&#160;              Sean McLoughlin (Department of Theology &#38; Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK). Muslims, multiculturalism and the UK State after &#8216;7/7&#8217;&#160;     Group B &#8211; Chair:&#160; Thijl Sunier&#160;         Ekrem Eddy G&#252;zeldere (European Stability Initiative). German elections 2009 and the Turkish/Muslim community&#160;              J&#246;rn Thielmann (Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe EZIRE, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany). Engaging the state: The Islamic community Mil&#238; G&#246;rus and the German politics&#160;              Salima Bouyarden (France). The Muslim vote in France and the UK: origins and new patterns&#160;     Group C &#8211; Chair:&#160; Egdunas Racius&#160;         Iben Helquist (Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, RUC, Denmark). Muslim Interest Groups in Denmark: Credible and reliable partners of the public administration?&#160;              George Michalakopoulos and Dr Christina Melliou (Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ionian University, Greece). Is political participation of Muslim communities an end in itself, or is it a means to an end? The case of the Muslim community in Thrace&#160;&#160;&#160;              Sheila B. Lalwani (Harvard University, USA). Journalism, policy, women&#8217;s issues, Islam, diversity     Parallel paper session 3Group A &#8211; Chair:&#160; Sean McCloughlin         St&#233;phane Lathion (GRIS, l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Fribourg, Switzerland). Muslims in Switzerland: What has the minaret initiative changed for the Muslim associative leader?&#160;              Ivan Ureta-Vaquero (University of Lugano, Switzerland). Public discourse and the raising of Islamophobia with a focus on Switzerland: Limiting political organization&#160;     Group B &#8211; Chair:&#160; Samim Akg&#246;n&#251;l&#160;         Egdunas Racius (Vilnius University, Lithuania). Lithuanian Muslim attitudes toward participation in democratic political process&#160;              Ajala Im&#232;ne (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland). The Muslim vote and Muslim lobby in France: Myths and realities&#160;              Marco Giugni and No&#233;mi Michel (University of Geneva, Switzerland). Muslims in Switzerland: Associational involvement, political attitudes and social characteristics&#160;     Group C &#8211; Chair:&#160; Azhar Ibrahim&#160;         Rabih Barakat (University of Strasbourg). Political participation as a method of integration Muslims religious self-governance as a means of effective political participation&#160;&#160;              Agata S. Nalborczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland). The political participation of Polish Muslim Tatars &#8211; the result of or the reason for integration? From wars with Teutonic knights to the Danish cartoons affair&#160;              Riem Spielhaus (CEIT, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). From access to engagement &#8211; an empirical approach to political participation among Muslims in Berlin&#160;     Parallel papers session 4&#160;Group A &#8211; Chair: Maria Bombardieri&#160;         Fatima Zibouh (Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies at ULG, Belgium). The Muslims&#8217; political participation in Belgium&#160;              G&#246;ran Larsson and Jonathan B&#228;ckelie (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Young Muslims and political participation in Sweden&#160;              Maike Didero (Aachen University, Germany). Political participation of Muslim immigrants in Germany: a case of integration or fragmentation? The BFF in Bonn as an example&#160;     Group B &#8211; Chair: J&#248;rgen S. Nielsen&#160;         Garbi Schmidt (Institute for Social Science Research, Copenhagen, Denmark). &#8221;Grounded&#8221; politics: The powerfulness of Islam in local spaces&#160;              Timothy Peace (European University Institute, Florence, Italy). Muslim political participation in Britain: the case of Respect&#160;     Group C &#8211; Chair:&#160; Stefano Allievi&#160;         Z. Fareen Parvez (Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA). Representing &#8220;Islam of the Banlieues&#8221;: The politics and antipolitics of Muslims in France&#160;              Nadia Jeldtoft (CEIT, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Representativeness and Muslim Minority Identities: Islam in the Everyday Lives of Muslims in Europe&#160;              Zeynep Hale &#214;ner-Keifer (Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey). 'Active participation' for women through the lens of a triparty analysis: Students, politicians and academicians view     