A Shared View of Europe – Jewish and Muslim Experiences as Reflected in Public Controversies

Participants

Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Mercator IPC Senior Fellow. Her research themes include Islam in Europe, public sphere, secularism, and multiple modernities. In her work, she questions the Eurocentric perception of secular modernity in particular.

Shai Lavi is Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University, founding director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life. His research interests include the history of Jews and Muslims in Germany, in particular the debate over ritual slaughter.

Gökçe Yurdakul is Professor for Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt University of Berlin and co-head of the department “Foundations of Migration and Integration Research” at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research. Her research themes include citizenship, religion, ethnicity, and gender.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin is Professor for Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and academic director of the Jewish Culture and Identity unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His research interests include the Jewish-Christian history of ideas in Europe and Zionist historical consciousness.