INFORM Seminar XLIV
Cults and Crime
London School of Economics, Saturday 24 April 2010
LG01, New Academic Building
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair & Honorary
Director, Inform)
“Be it a Crime if I Believe?”
10.35 - 11.00: Annie Yang (A Falun Gong practitioner)
“The Persecution of Falun Gong in China: A Personal Experience of
‘Re-Education’"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Jack Kreindler (Former member, World of Yaad)
Title to be confirmed
11.50 - 12.15: Ian Toon (Metropolitan Police)
“Nrms, a police perspective”
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: François Bellanger (Lawyer, Professor of Law at the
University of Geneva and President of the Swiss Information Center on
Beliefs)
"Cults and crime from a legal perspective"
14.15 - 14.40: Michael Langone (Executive Director, International Cultic
Studies Association, USA)
“Cultic crimes in North America Part 1”
14.40 - 15.05: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada)
“Cultic crimes in North America Part 2”
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Henri de Cordes (President, Information & Advice Center
on Harmful Sectarian Organizations, Belgium)
"The 74 corpses of the Solar Temple Order : Sacrifice, Suicide or
Crime?"
15.55 - 16.20: Jean La Fontaine (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Honorary
Research Fellow, Inform)
“Ritual murder?”
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
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or at least recognise, different perspectives. The presence of speakers on an
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