
14/05/26
AGENDA
Conflicts of Knowledge: Four Pluriel Researchers at the 93rd Acfas Congress (Trois-Rivières, 14 May 2026)
Trois-Rivières, Canada, 14 May 2026. Four Pluriel member researchers will take part in the symposium “Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narrativities”, held within the 93rd Cong...
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Amir Dziri: “Over the past decade, the Swiss Center for Islam and Society has strengthened its academic standing”
Fribourg, Switzerland. To mark the Swiss Center for Islam and Society’s tenth anniversary, its co-director Amir Dziri gave an interview to Pluriel.
07/05/25
NEWS
Webinar. An Anglican Perspective on Interfaith Marriages in England
As part of the Kircher Online Lectures, a public webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 7th at 4 PM (Central European Time). Entitled “Intimate Diversity: An Anglican perspective on interfaith marriage ...
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in the Muslim World?
Interview. Saudi researcher Abdulrahman Khalid AlKhunayfir, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo, traces his intellectual journey that led him to study the history o...
17/10/24
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Montreal: “Books in Christian and Muslim Religious Bookstores between Lyon and Montreal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of the Offer”
As part of the Jacques Cartier Dialogues 2024 at the University of Montreal, several researchers who are members of Pluriel will participate in a study day on October 17, 2024, focusing on books in Christia...
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Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”
As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...
07/05/24
AGENDA
Webinar “The Muslim Difference” with Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College, United States)
“ May 7, 2024 at 4 pm (UTC+1). Presentation and discussion about the book “”The Muslim Difference. Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present”...
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Emmanuel Pisani: “The thought of al-Ghazali provides a basis for freedom of conscience”
Interview. On the occasion of the publication of his thesis about Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, which won the Mohamed Arkoun Prize in 2016, Emmanuel Pisani, director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies i...
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‘Islamophobia’ in Spain ?
The Bridge Initiative is a project led by Georgetown University that focuses on the problem of ‘Islamophobia’ in the world. Its ‘Islamophobia Resource Center’ (IRC) is a tool for academics and researchers, ...
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[Postponed] IFCU Symposium / Preparing for the COVID-19 World
Postponed to an unspecified date Symposium organized by the International federation of catholic Universities.–> Postponed to an unspecified date. The covid 19 pandemic has been a major crisis of w...
16/12/20
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Webinar : Religions and secularism: the challenge of intransigence
Wednesday December 16th, 6.30PM (online) In a context marked by extremism, radicalism, separatism and communitarianism, French society is experiencing an intensification of identity-based and militant withd...
Dirk Ansorge
Professeur en théologie dogmatique
Alam Anwar
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Janusz Balicki
Professor of cultural Integration of Muslim Immigrants in EU – Card. Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
Youssef Boutahar
Professor of English and Cultural Studies
Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Silvia Pierantoni Giua
Researcher
Jamel Khermimoun
Adnane Mokrani
Professeur agrégé à l’Université pontificale grégorienne (Rome), chercheur membre de la Fondation Jean XXIII pour les études religieuses (FSCIRE)
Eider Muniategi-Azkona
Professor of Social and Political Sciences
Thomas Richard
Associate Researcher, Political Science, History of Arts, Université Clermont-Auvergne, France
Raja Sakrani
Jurist and Reserach coordinator
Amany Fouad Salib
Associate Researcher at the Centre of Research on Immigration, Ethnicity and Citizenship
Noemi Trucco
Gonzalo Villagrán
Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Universidad Loyola in Granada. Professor of Christian social ethics
Anja Zalta
Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Faculty of Art, University of Ljubljana
videos
Interreligious Dialogue and Ethnic Nationalisms in the Balkans
At the invitation of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome) and Georgetown University, Ahmet Alibašić, professor of Islamic civilization at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Saraj...
publication
Dialogue for a More Livable World: Toward an Ethics of Encounter
videos
Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in Mediterranean Studies, Religions and Societies
Lecture given by Professor Dominique Avon on October 13, 2025, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI).
publication
Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism
videos
Islam in Europe or European Islam?
In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers an in-depth analysis of the Muslim presence in Eu...
videos
Christian Thought, Muslim Thought and Societal Issues: Launch of the “Theologies in Dialogue” Chair
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, this inaugural conference presents a new chair entitled “Theologies in Dialogue” at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon. The speakers, Mi...
videos
Cosmopolitanism and minority rights: going beyond the protection of ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East
This communication challenges traditional approaches to ethnoreligious diversity in the Middle East, arguing that the focus on “protecting minority rights” is inadequate. It demonstrates how the...
publication
“Christian-Muslim Relations in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Beyond the Polemics over ‘The Innocence of Muslims'”
videos
Online Symposium: Islamic Origins & Christian Theological Engagement with Islam
Panelists David Marshall, University of Bern (Moderator), Guest Editor of Islamochristiana Martin Accad, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary Daniel Brown, ISRME Diego Sarrio Cucarella, PISAI Sandra Keating, P...
videos
From the Declaration “Nostra Aetate” to the Document of Abu Dhabi: Reexamining a Historical and Theological Trajectory in the Catholic Approach to Islamic-Christian Dialogue
Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue, from the Nostra Aetate...
videos
Azharis, Representations of Christianity, and the Vagaries of Islamic-Christian Dialogue (1930s-2020s)
Dominique Avon, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, traces the evolution of the discourse of the ulama of al-Azhar on Christianity since the 1930s. Confronted with the colonial Euro...
publication
Islam & Otherness. Proceedings of the Pluriel congress in Beirut