Forthcoming Events

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