Changing shades of green

An important conference addressing contemporary issues in terms of migration and social cohesion will take place at the Miltown Institute. A full agenda of the conference is outlined below.

The title of the conference is Changing Shades of Green and it will take place on October 13, 2006.



Keynote address- Michael Mc Dowell

Manuel Jordao, Representative, UNHCR Representation, Dublin 10.45 Changing Shades of Green:Challenges & Opportunities

Dr Patrick Claffey, Dept of Mission Theology & Culture at Miltown Institute

10:30am
Cultural change and social cohesion
Sarah Spencer (Associate Director, Centre on Migration, University of Oxford
Piaris Mc Enri (UCC)

12.30
Religious identities & social cohesion
in a secular state

Dr. Katy Radford, Irish School of Ecumenics,
Belfast
Dr. Tony Fahey, Economic & Social Research
Institute, Dublin

13.30 Lunch Break
(Lunch available at MI restaurant if booked

a)
Integration Policy & Practice

John Haskins, Head of Integration Policy
Reception & Immigration Agency, Dublin

Michael Begley, Director, SPIRASI

b)

Islam in Europe,

Ali Selim, M.Phil, Theologian with Islamic Cultural Centre

Philip Watt, Director of the National Consultative
Committee on Racism & Interculturalism, Dublin

c)

The Pastoral Care of Migrants
Sr. Joan Roddy, The Irish Commission for Justice
& Peace, Maynooth
Dr. Paddy Roe, Milltown Institute

15.30 Coffee Break

15.45 Plenary Discussion
Chair: TBA Panel: Tony Fahey, John Haskins,
Piaras McEnri, Ali Selim Sarah Spencer,
Katy Radford, Joan Roddy, Philip Watt

16.30 Closing Ceremony
Dr. John Dardis, S.J., Vice-Chancellor,
Milltown Institute

Applications for places at the conference can be sent to changingshadesofgreen@milltown-institute.ie