The Symposium will reflect on the government’s integration strategy and to do so in the light of both contemporary developments and recent scholarship. It will bring the most current evidence-based research to bear on urgent issues of policy for an invited audience of academic experts, policy makers and parliamentarians.
Welcome and Introduction
David Feldman, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London John Mann MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism
Session 1: Integration and Disadvantage Today
Introduction: Andrew Stunell OBE MP
Chair: John Mann MP
- Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex and Becky Taylor, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
- Rob Berkeley, Runnymede Trust
- Anthony Heath, University of Oxford
Session 2: Integration and Extremism
Introduction and Chair: Baroness Sayeda Warsi
- Vidhya Ramalingam, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
- Nasar Meer, Northumbria University
- Dave Rich, Community Security Trust
Session 3: Is Localism Sufficient?
Introduction and Chair: Gavin Barwell MP
- Maleiha Malik, Kings College London
- Ben Gidley, COMPAS, University of Oxford
- Dean Godson, Policy Exchange
Concluding Remarks
David Feldman, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London