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ALT Text on blue background: “The University of Edinburgh: School of Social & Political Science. Book Launch. Racializing the Ummah. Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White. Dr Rahman is assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her research has been published in Africa, Religions, and an edited volume of The Anthropology of White Supremacy.15 May, 2:30-4:00 pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Floor 6, Chrystal Macmillan Building. The poster also includes a photo of Dr Rahman smiling at the camera. The right-hand side of the poster includes the front cover of the book ‘Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White’, which features Islamic tile designs.
ALT Poster for the Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice Symposium. Text on a blue background: Interreligious Encounters and Creative Practice. 19 - 21 January 2026. Join us for the conference, 'Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice', which explores how creative practices shape, challenge, and reimagine encounters and forms of coexistence between different faiths.’ Venue: Room G.07, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. ' On the right side, the poster features a photo of the view from a window which overlooks a square with trees lined in rows on a sunny day. In the background, there are tall apartment complexes, cars parked, and a mountain in the distance. At the top of the poster, the logos of the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh, the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, Religions for Peace UK, and Newcastle University are featured.
ALT Poster for the Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice Symposium. Text on a blue background: Interreligious Encounters and Creative Practice. 19 - 21 January 2026. Join us for the conference, 'Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice', which focuses on the role of creative practice in our understandings of religious encounters of different faiths and acts of coextistence!' Venue: Room G.07, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. ' On the right side, the poster features a photo of the view from a window which overlooks a square with trees lined in rows on a sunny day. In the background, there are tall apartment complexes, cars parked, and a mountain in the distance. At the top of the poster, the logos of the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh, the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, Religions for Peace UK, and Newcastle University are featured.
ALT Front cover of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies article 'The situated and everyday cultivation of transcultural capital in educational and home settings for migrant youth in Scotland' by Helen Packwood & Nissa Finney. ABSTRACT Scholars have identified that many young migrants employ transcultural capital to navigate difference in everyday life. In some cases, this enables migrants to resist social marginalisation, articulate empathy and challenge social hierarchies. This paper focuses on the significance and potential of the school, family and neighbourhood environments in the everyday cultivation of transcultural capital. To do this, we highlight the narratives of young migrants (age 16–18) in their final years of compulsory education, derived from a larger mixed-methods study on educational transitions in Scotland. This paper argues that (1) there is considerable variability between young migrants in the identification, development and mobilisation...
