Tariq Ramadan speaks about humour in intercultural society

On Friday 23 March, in the national Praise of Folly Book Week, Tariq Ramadan will be the keynote speaker in the Aula of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ramadan, visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University Rotterdam, will lecture on the topic of the complex role and meaning of humour in our newly emerging intercultural society. What are the relationships between sense of humour, freedom of speech, creative self critique and intercultural living together ? Is a right to offend necessary for a successful integration ? Furthermore he will debate with historian and arabist Dick Douwes, sociologists Han Entzinger and Giselinde Kuipers and philosopher Henk Oosterling. With a column by publicist Mohammed Benzakour.

What the *bleep* is so funny ? Humour in intercultural society, Friday 23 March 2007, 19.30-21.30 hrs (aula open 18.45 hrs), English spoken

(New) location : Aula (Woudestein, building A), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, see www.eur.nl/english/addresses/guide

Entrance is free, but reservation required. See : www.erasmuspodium.nl

Press information : Marjolein Kooistra, ( 31 10) 408 2135
E-mail : kooistra@fsw.eur.nl