Draft and Subject to Change
Saturday 31 August
09:00-10:00
Registration with Refreshments
Art Exhibition on Blasphemous Women by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Haram Doodles, Ibtissame Betty Lachgar and Jenny Wenhammar curated by Victoria Gugenheim
10:00-10:30
Opening Plenary: A tribute to Blasphemous Women and Shabana Rehman
Welcome: MCs Fariborz Pooya and Mimzy Vidz
Opening remarks by Morten Guldburg, Shakeel Rehman, Maryam Namazie
Music by FarAvaz
10:30-11:45
Plenary Session: Creativity and Humour in Challenging Fundamentalisms and Defending Free Expression
Chair: Lisa-Marie Taylor
Opening remarks: Ibtissame Betty Lachgar
Panellists: Haram Doodles, FarAvaz, Inna Shevchenko, Maryam Namazie
Music by Yasmine Elbaramawy
11:45-13:00
Plenary Session: Racism, Identity Politics and Free Expression
Chair: Eirik Løkke
Opening Remarks: Gita Sahgal
Panellists: Ali Malik, Rahila Gupta, Sohail Ahmed, Taha Siddiqui
Poetry by Rahila Gupta
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15
Plenary Session: The Ex-Muslims: Canaries in the Coal Mine
Chair: Arnfinn Pettersen
Opening Remarks: Ibn Warraq
Panellists: Afaf Bessa, Aleem, Khadija Khan, Veedu Vidz
Music by Zanyar Hesami
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Protest Art Action for Woman, Life, Freedom with Victoria Gugenheim
16:30-17:45
Film: Même Pas Mal (No Harm Done) by Nadia El Fani and Alina Isabel Pérez (2012)
17:45-19:00
Plenary Discussion: Laicite as a Cornerstone of Free Expression and Rights
Chair: Dan Barker
Opening Remarks: Marieme Helie Lucas
Panellists: Mariam Aliyu, Mohammad Hisham, Nada Peratovic, Nadia El Fani and Stephen Evans
19:00-19:30
Closing of Day 1
Stand Up Comedy by Veedu Vidz
Music by Shelley Segal
Sunday 1 September
9:00-10:00 Registration with Refreshments
Art Exhibition on Blasphemous Women by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Haram Doodles, Ibtissame Betty Lachgar and Jenny Wenhammar curated by Victoria Gugenheim
10:00-10:15
Opening Plenary with MCs Fariborz Pooya and Mimzy Vidz
Music by Shelley Segal
10:15-10:30
Deeyah Khan’s Islam’s Non Believers
10:30-11:45
Plenary: Islam’s Nonbelievers: Terror, Trauma, Transformation
Chair: Zara Kay
Opening Remarks: Jimmy Bangash
Panellists: Mimzy Vidz, Cemal Knudsen Yucel, Milad Resaeimanesh, Mouhammad El Jabbari, Zahra Pela
Poetry by Halima Salat
11:45-13:00
Plenary: Censorship, Offence and Free Speech
Chair: Victoria Gugenheim
Opening Remarks: Ahmedur Chowdhury
Panellists: Apostate Aladdin, Sanal Edamaruku, Wissam Charafeddine and Yasmine Elbaramawy
Music by Zanyar Hesami
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15
Plenary: Science and Rationality challenging Dogma
Chair: Sylo Taraku
Opening Remarks: Lawrence Krauss
Other Panellists: Annie Laurie Gaylor, Ali A Rizvi, Krystel Antoni, and Sami Abdallah
Music by Yasmine Elbaramawy
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00
Plenary Session: Blasphemous Women: Touching the Sacred
Chair: Maryam Namazie
Opening Remarks: Nazmiye Oral
Other Panellists: Fauzia Ilyas, Halima Salat, Rana Ahmad and Zara Kay
17:00-18:00
Closing with FarAvaz,
Monday 2 September
11:00-14:00 Meeting of Ex-Muslims International
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