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The international colloquium “Transnational Study of Public Controversies around Islam in Europe”, seek to understand the ways in which controversies around Islam bring the visibility of religious signs and symbols to the foreground of European public life. Islamic priers practices, connected to the headscarf, prayers and dietary prescriptions trigger societal debates that confront secular European values to the Islamic religious norms. The question of Islamic difference becomes central in the redefinition of pillars as well as frontiers of European public sphere. How can we rethink the question of Islamic visibility in relation with democratic pluralism? Are their novel ways of opening up a critic of secular modernity through the prism of Islam in a post-Enlightenment Europe? Can Islam, post-secularism and cosmopolitanism be pertinent categories of analysis to rethink Europe?This colloquium is organized within the framework of the EUROPUBLICISLAM Project which is directed by Nilüfer Göle, professor of sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the laureate of the European Research Council Advanced Grant (FP7/2007-2013/GrantAgreement n° 230244).Program – International Colloquium, 31 May – 2 June 2012Transnational Study of Public Controversies around Islam in EuropeOrganized by Nilüfer Göle,The director of EuroPublicIslam Project, ERC-EHESSReid HallSalle de Conférence4 rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris