Religion, civil society, and the academy. An event entitled 'Religious tolerance in Manchester' took place 9 December at the University. Hosted by the President, Duncan Iveson, the aim of the evening was to acknowledge Manchester's difficult recent past and the Heaton Park Synagogue tragedy, and to use the university as a forum for discussing contested views among religious communities and civic society, and for academics to contribute to shaping those discussions. Religious and civic leaders spoke, including the Deputy Mayor Karen Green, preceded by an academic panel comprising Daniel Langton (on Judaism and antisemitism in the UK), Kamran Karimullah (on Diversity, Islam and Islamophobia in the UK), Eve Parker (on Religiosity and cohesion in Greater Manchester) and Hilary Pilkington (on The use and abuse of religion in extremist narratives).
