Special Guest Lecture
“The ties of ‘homeland’ and adapting to new places:
Middle Eastern Christian communities in the UK”
Dr. Fiona McCallum,
Lecturer in
International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her
research focuses primarily on the political role of Christian communities in
the contemporary Middle East. This includes government integration policies
towards Christian communities, identity issues, Christian political
participation in the region, Muslim-Christian relations, religious leadership
and diaspora. She is the author of Christian Religious Leadership in the
Middle East: The Political Role of the Patriarch, Edwin Mellen Press,
2010; “Religious Institutions and
Authoritarian States: Church-State Relations in the Middle East”, Third World Quarterly, 33 (2010);
“Christian Political Participation in the Arab World”, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 23
(2012); “Desert Roots and Global Branches: the Journey of the Coptic
Orthodox Church”, Bulletin of the
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 7 (2006); Muslim-Christian
Relations in Egypt: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century”, in Christian Responses to Islam:
Muslim-Christian Relations in the Modern World, Manchester University
Press, 2008; “The Maronite Patriarch in the Contemporary Era – Tradition
and Challenges”, in Eastern
Christianity: Studies in Modern History, Religion and Politics (London,
Routledge, 2010.She is currently leading a collaborative interdisciplinary
project funded by the European Union entitled ‘Defining and Identifying Middle
Eastern Christian Communities in Europe’ with partners from Denmark, Poland and
Belgium. Dr. McCallum is Visiting Research Fellow Centre for Eastern
Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London/
5. pm on Thursday 14th January 2016
Heythrop College, University of
London, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN
All are welcome.
Details from Dr John Flannery – j.flannery@heythrop.ac.uk