SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 2014
Iranian-born Campaigner Maryam Namazie’s Opening Address: “Secularism is our response to the Religious-Right”
Algerian Sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas: “Attacks on Secularism”
Tribute by Karima Bennoune to those Fallen Fighting the Religious-Right
Human Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell’s Opening
Secularism Panel
Centre for Secular Space Director Gita Sahgal: “Who’s afraid of Secularism”
Secularism Panel
Author Caroline Fourest: “Secularism against Fanaticism” Secularism Panel
Leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iran Hamid Taqvaee: “The Rise and Fall of Secularism”
Secularism Panel
Co-Founder of Survivors’ Voice Europe Sue Cox: “The Isolation and Alienation Caused by Clergy and Why Secularism is Important”
Secularism Panel
Turkish MP Safak Pavey: “The Turkish Experience”
Secularism Panel
Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Sultana Kamal: The Fate of Secularism in Bangladesh”
Secularism Panel
Q & A Secularism Panel
Filmmaker Nadia El Fani: Neither Allah nor Master
National Secular Society President Terry Sanderson Opening
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Bread and Roses TV Host Fariborz Pooya: “The Production and Reproduction of the Myth of Moderate Religion”
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Senegalese Sociologist Fatou Sow: “Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Secular States”
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Political Activist Homa Arjomand: “Children have no Religion: One Secular Education for All”
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Vice President of Polish Atheist Coalition Nina Sankari: “In the Shadow of the Church: Failed Democracy in Poland”
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Southall Black Sisters Director Pragna Patel: “Religion, Law and the State in the UK: The Human Rights Implications of Accommodating Religious Legal Codes”
Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Q & A Religion in State, Law and Politics Panel
Philosopher AC Grayling: “Secularism and Education”
Comedian Kate Smurthwaite
Author Rumy Hassan opening
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Academic Elham Manea: “Islamic Law in the West: The Essentialists”
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Author Kenan Malik: “What’s Wrong with Multiculturalism?”
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas: “Communities, Conflicting Rights and Hierarchy of Rights in Non-Secular States”
Activist Aliyah Saleem on “My Experience at an Islamic Boarding School in Britain”
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Activist Chris Moos: “The Fox, The Hen House, and The One who Let Him in: The Religious Far-Right and its Enablers in Higher Education”
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Imam Taj Hargey on “Banning the Burka: Religious Intolerance or Secular Imperative?”
Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Q & A Multi-faithism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Panel
Nuclear Physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy: “Has the Islamic State ever been a Historical Reality?”
Centre for Secular Space Director Gita Sahgal interviews Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin
Message from Palestinian atheist Waleed Al-Husseini to Conference (Waleed was a speaker but never got a visa)
Message from Egyptian atheist Ben Baz Aziz to Conference (Ben Baz Aziz was a speaker but was not given a visa)
LCP Dance Theatre
SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 2014
Author Karima Bennoune: “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here”
We are All Kobane with Maryam Namazie and Karima Bennoune
Resolution adopted by Conference
Author Julie Bindel Opening
Women, Religion and Religious-Right Panel
Activist Magdulien Abaida on “Women in Islam”
Women, Religion and Religious-Right Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTo7VpFoxHA
Activist Horia Mosadiq on “Religious Fundamentalism and its Impact on Women and Girls in Afghanistan”
Women, Religion and Religious-Right Panel
Activist Nira Yuval-Davis on “The Role of Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and its Effects on the Position of Women”
Author Siba Shakib: “How Religion and Tradition Determine Lives of Women and Girls”
Women, Religion and Religious-Right Panel
Activist Soad Baba Aïssa – “Double Fight: against Islamist Terrorism and Ideology”
Women, Religion and Religious-Right Panel
Filmmaker Lila Ghobady, “Female Iranian Artists: A Portrait of Anti-Regime Women in Exile”
Professor Amel Grami, “Female Bodies in Tunisia Post Revolution”
Fariborz Pooya thanks organisations that has endorsed and funded Secular conference 2014
Singer/Songwriter Shelley Segal singing “When I’m Gone”
Singer/Songwriter Shelley Segal singing “Eve”
Singer/Songwriter Shelley Segal presents the winner of One Law For All’s international song competition, ‘Sounds of Freedom’: Indonesian band Simponi for Sister in Danger
Journalist Salil Tripathi Opening
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
Inna Shevchenko “Girls against Gods”
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
Nahla Mahmoud “Islamic Apostasy in the West: Reality and Challenges”
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3Yo15yQmk
Kiran Opal “The Human and the Kafir: How Fear of Apostasy Fuels Islamist Power”
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
Maha Kamal “International human rights law and the clash with state-implemented Sharia law”
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
Salil Tripathi on Blasphemy and Apostasy in India
Blasphemy and Apostasy Panel
Q & A Apostasy and Blasphemy Panel
Activist Yasmin Rehman Opening
Religious-Right Panel
Labour Historian Dilip Simeon (“India – Communal Faultlines and Genocidal Consensus”)
Religious-Right Panel
Commentator Bahram Soroush (“Confronting the Islamic State”)
Religious-Right Panel
Activists Chulani Kodikara and Faizun Zackariya on “Sinhala Buddhist Ethnonationalism: Implications for women and minorities in post war Sri Lanka”
Director of Centre for Secular Space Gita Sahgal (“Remembering Genocide, Striving for Secular Space”)
Religious-Right Panel
Q & A Religious-Right Panel
Algerian Sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas: “What next after Secular Conference 2014?”
Closing Video with Maryam Namazie calling for the adoption of the Manifesto for Secularism