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January 25th, 2011

Call for papers: Spirituality, political engagement, and public life

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The SSRC Working Group on Spritituality, Political Engagement & Public Life is inviting submissions of abstracts for a conference to be held at Columbia University in New York City, June 3-4, 2011. Submissions are due by March 1, when they will be reviewed by members of the working group co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar McRoberts.

The conference, like the working group, will engage with a set of overarching themes: “the institutions and traditions that construct, condition, and demarcate spiritual activities and identities” and “the relations of these institutions and traditions to systems and patterns of political participation in the contemporary United States.”

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January 11th, 2011

Conference: “Secularism in the Late Modern Age”

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On January 28-29, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia will host a conference on “Secularism in the Late Modern Age: Between New Atheisms and Religious Fundamentalisms.” Speakers include: Manuela Achilles, Rajeev Bhargava, José Casanova, Jocelyn Cesari, Daniel Doneson, Silvio Ferrari, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Slavica Jakelić, Adam Lipszyc, Ekaterina Makarova, Neeti Nair, Christopher Nichols , Abdulaziz Sachedina, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Kevin Shultz, William Schweiker, George Thomas, Carl Trindle, Stephen White, and Wesley Wildman.

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August 23rd, 2010

Call for papers: “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion”

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On April 7-9, 2011, Syracuse University will host a conference on “the future of continental philosophy of religion,” featuring plenary addresses by John D. Caputo, Philip Goodchild, and Catherine Malabou. The organizers have a issued a call for papers, which are to be submitted by December 15, 2010.

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April 6th, 2010

The Politics of Religion

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On April 16-17, 2010, Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York is hosting an international conference on The Politics of Religion.

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February 26th, 2010

Conference: One Year After Cairo

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On April 28, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold its eleventh annual conference, “U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo.” Participants include leading scholars, policy analysts, and public intellectuals, including Tariq Ramadan, Brian Katulis, and Reza Aslan. In addition, there will be a concluding keynote address by Senator John Kerry.

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February 15th, 2010

Conference: “Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age”

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The University of California at Riverside will host a two day conference entitled Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age on February 26-27. Participants include Charles Taylor, Hubert Dreyfus, and Sean Kelly.

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February 12th, 2010

New technologies in research on religion

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Harvard’s “New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion,” which Ruth posted on earlier, is coming up on March 12-13 and is open to the public.

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February 4th, 2010

“Inter-Asian Connections”

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Following the successful inaugural conference held in Dubai in February 2008, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, and the Social Science Research Council have announced plans for the second Conference on Inter-Asian Connections. There is an open call for proposals from faculty members of accredited colleges and universities from around the globe, to direct one of six thematic workshops, including one on religion and law, at a three-day international conference to be held in Singapore on December 8-10, 2010.

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February 1st, 2010

“We Have Never Been Secular: Re-thinking the Sacred”

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The New School for Social Research’s Department of Sociology will hold its annual graduate student conference, “We Have Never Been Secular: Re-Thinking the Sacred,” in New York City on April 9, 2010. It’s organizers invite graduate students to submit paper proposals by February 12, 2010.

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January 4th, 2010

“Religious-Secular Distinctions”

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On January 14-16 the British Academy will host “Religious-Secular Distinctions,” a conference intended take up, from an interdisciplinary set of perspectives, the question, “How and why do people—politicians, academics, managers, teachers, journalists, clergy, lawyers—distinguish between religious’ and ‘non-religious’ or ‘secular’?”

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