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The book examines the relationship between documentary photography and Surrealism in England in the 1930s and 1940s. It will focus on the ways these elements come together in the work of artists such as Paul Nash, Eileen Agar, Bill Brandt, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and Humphrey Jennings. The study will continue through the Second World War, when it will focus on the photography representations of the Blitz, and conclude in the post-war years, as those relationships shift in a period of great change in English culture.

The workshops will focus on issues of toleration that raise tensions at the legal and political level of the community, and pose questions of citizenship and belonging. The overall theme is whether Britain can embrace cultural difference in its political and legal structures, and so become a genuinely plural community. Five workshops will be held throughout Britain, addressing different but related themes: (1) Immigration and Citizenship; (2) Cultural Identity and Freedom of Expression; (3) Gender Equality and Cultural Justice; (4) Toleration and Multiculturalism; (5) Division, Democracy and the Public Sphere. The workshops will be aimed at academics, officials, lobbyists, and members of cultural minority groups and the speakers will reflect that aim.

Concern about the relationship between faith communities and the wider secular community have been prominent since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7. Much media attention, as well as academic research, has focused on the Muslim community and has examined the attachment of the community to norms and customs that are different from, and in part incompatible with, those of the wider secular community. Interest in the interaction between religious and secular laws was further heightened as a result of the statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury that it was "inevitable" that elements of the Muslim law, such as divorce proceedings, would be incorporated into British legislation (Williams, 2008) The proposed project will offer an overview of the current state of the debate in the UK on the relationship between religious law and state law, with reference to both the Muslim and Jewish communities. It will then compare selected aspects of that relationship with the position in France. The aspects to be compared are: 1. the identification of representatives who can negotiate on behalf of the community with the state, and the identification of religious legal authorities 2. the relationship between religious and state law in the context of marriage and divorce; and 3. the role of religious courts in the process of dispute resolution, with particular reference to divorce. There is already a significant body of information on the relationship between religious and state law in the context of marriage and divorce, including material written by the Principal Investigator and the Research Associate (see Publications lists). The proposed project will place this work in the context of other UK studies, and develop a comparative dimension. It will also lay the groundwork for further comparative research by establishing a network of scholars in this field from the US, Canada and Israel as well as other EU States with significant Muslim and Jewish populations. The proposed project will be based within the Women in Society Research Centre (WISRC) at the University of Wales, Newport with the support of colleagues working in related fields at Cardiff University, who have the necessary contacts with religion and law researchers in France and elsewhere. The Principal Investigator is a family law specialist and expert in particular in the areas of forced marriage, polygamy and the human rights dimension of family relationships. The Research Associate has a part-time teaching post at Cardiff University, is currently conducting research on religious law and the law of arbitration and has extensive experience of comparative law research - notably with reference to French law. Dissemination of the project findings will be facilitated by the activities of WISRC (see "Academic Beneficiaries"). The Research Associate is an associate member of the Cardiff University Centre for Law and Religion (CUCLR) and so further dissemination will be possible through networks organised under the aegis of CUCLR, or in which members of that Centre are active (see "Impact Summary") By providing comparative insights, the project will benefit a range of scholars who research, inter alia, law and religion, family law and the sociology of religion. It will also benefit religious courts and institutions and a range of policy-makers.

Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.