Conferences & Colloquiums

Dialogue Society organises annual conferences and colloquiums. In 2007 it organised a peer-reviewed international academic conference ‘Muslim World in Transition’ over three days at the House of Lords, SOAS and LSE. The conference was organised in partnership with SOAS, University of Birmingham, Leeds Met University, Irish School of Ecumenics, Middle East Institute and London Middle East Institute. Full papers and proceedings of the conference were published in advance of the conference by a University Press. Papers were reviewed twice before being accepted by the conference editorial board of 16 members which included pre-eminent scholars and academics of the highest calibre such as Prof Eileen Barker of LSE, Prof Muhammad Abdulhaleem of SOAS, Tim Winter of Cambridge University and others.

In 2008, Dialogue Society organised a colloquium in the form of an Academic Retreat in Istanbul which featured the meeting of forty UK and Europe-based academics for seven days to critically appraise and scrutinise one of the most dynamic faith based movements to originate from the Muslim world known as the Gülen Movement. The event comprised seven roundtable discussions over seven days with relevant visits, meetings and activities interspersed in between.