SeminarIslam in Italy: From Social Otherness to Incomplete Legal Recognition

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OUTLINE

This public research seminar will invite Professor Alessandro Ferrari of the Faculty of Law at the University of Insubria to deliver a keynote lecture on the contemporary situation surrounding Islam in Italy, followed by a discussion from a comparative international perspective.

Although Islam has become a long-standing and established presence in Italy, it is still frequently perceived as something foreign or incompatible with Italian society. Positioned between incomplete forms of citizenship and the difficulty of being fully incorporated into institutional frameworks that guarantee religious freedom, Muslims in Italy have often remained excluded from adequate legal and institutional protections.

This seminar is co-organized with the JSPS KAKENHI research project “Toward an Interregional Comparative Study of Religion in the Post-Secular Age: Constructing and Analyzing Plural Perspectives on the World.”

SPEAKERS

Speaker: Alessandro Ferrari (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Insubria)
Commentators:
Reiko Mihara (Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University)
Yasuyuki Yamashita (Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University)

DATE & TIMEE

Friday, June 12, 2026, 17:00–19:00

LANGUAGE

French (with Japanese interpretation)

VENUE

RY409, Ryoshinkan Building, Imadegawa Campus, Doshisha University

FORMAT

In person

CO-ORGANIZERS

Doshisha University Hub, Global Mediterranean, NIHU
JSPS KAKENHI Project: “Toward an Interregional Comparative Study of Religion in the Post-Secular Age: Constructing and Analyzing Plural Perspectives on the World” (25H00456)

CONTACT

Yasuyuki Yamashita (Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University)
yyamashita@ruby.kobe-u.ac.jp