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Wood theatre (Economics & Commerce building)

This presentation explores why Western multiculturalists find it hard to extend their famed 'recognition and tolerance' to embrace people from Islamic culture. It argues that this difficulty arises both from some enduring weaknesses in Multiculturalism itself and from some of the ways in which Islamic cultures are lived today.

Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry at the University of Melbourne.