War and migrations. Rethinking relations between the West and the Muslim world

Last update: 2024-09-16 16:11:44

Programme:

 

9:30-10:20am

H.E. Msgr Claudio Giuliodori, Ecclesiastical Assistant General at the Catholic University of Milan, Msgr Luca Bressan, Episcopal Vicar for Culture, Charity, Mission and Social Action of the Diocese of Milan, Card. Angelo Scola, Oasis founder (remotely), Msgr Gabriel Richi Alberti, San Dámaso University of Madrid, H.E. Msgr Paolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, Michele Brignone, Oasis International Foundation

               

10:20-11:15am Keynote speeches

Henry Laurens, Collège de France, The war in Gaza and the relations between the West and the Muslim world

Hassan Aourid, Mohammed V University – Rabat, Islam and the West: intertwined perspectives

 

11:15-11:30am Coffee break

 

11:30-11:50am Response by Massimo Cacciari, Accademia dei Lincei

 

11:50-12:40am Being Christian in the Middle East, roundtable with H.E. Msgr Paolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, H.E. Msgr Claudio Lurati, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria, H.E. Msgr Jules Boutros, Curial Bishop of Antioch (Syrian). Moderator: Martino Diez, Oasis International Foundation and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan

 

12:40am Ignazio De Francesco, Little Family of the Annunciation, A testimony from the West Bank

 

2:30-3:30pm Migrations and the policies of the Italian government, roundtable with Luigi Achilli, European University Institute, Maria Chiara Gadda, Italian MP, Laura Lega, Italian Ministry of Interior, Massimiliano Salini, Italian Member of the European Parliament (Forza Italia). Moderator: Alessandro Banfi, Oasis International Foundation

 

3:30-3:50pm Francesca Corrao, Luiss University - Rome, Khalil Gibran and the culture of migration in the United States

 

3:50-4:10pm Coffee break

 

4:10-5:10pm Islam and the West: entangled histories

Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University – Vienna, Islam and the West: Does either exist?

Reham Abdullah Salamah Nasr, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism, Countering Extremism: An Islamic perspective

 Karim Bitar, Saint Joseph University – Beirut, The Middle East in a multipolar world

 

5.30pm Conclusions by Martino Diez, Oasis International Foundation and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan

 

 

Conference organised within the project War, Migration, Ecology. Rethinking relations between the West and the Muslim world supported by Fondazione Cariplo