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Monday, 17 August 2020

ZOOM EVENT (RSVP required), 17-21 August: G20 Interfaith Forum: North America Regional Consultation
(GS Interfaith Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Thursday, 13 August 2020

SUMMER SCHOOL & INTERRELIGIOUS TRAINING SEMINAR, 2-13 August 2020: Religion in Times of Crisis. Live from Jerusalem
(Elijah Interfaith Institute)

Thursday, 6 August 2020

VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLES ON ASIAN LAW, 6 August 2020 (4PM SGT - 8AM GMT): Freedom of Religion or Belief: Asia and Comparative Perspective
(Arif Jamal, Nazila Ghanea, Jaclyn Neo, Benjamin Schonthal, Mark Hill QC, Center or Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore School of Law)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 6 August 2020 (12:30PM EDT): Islam and Western Secular Modernity: A Conversation with Nilüfer Göle
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

ZOOM EVENT, 6 August 2020 (6PM Jerusalem; 11AM EDT): The Impact of Coronavirus on Religious Identity and Concepts of Community (and interfaith prayer)
(Elijah Interfaith Institute)

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

VIRTUAL EVENT, 5 August 2020 (10:30am): USCIRF Update with USAID: The President’s Executive Order on International Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Tuesday, 4 August 2020

ZOOM EVENT, 4 August 2020 (12PM EDT): Faith & Belief ERGs Zoom Call with DELL Technologies
(Dell Technologies, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 4 August 2020 (12PM ET): ADL’s Annual Supreme Court Review
(ADL)

Monday, 6 July 2020

Live blog of US Supreme Court opinions - Monday, July 6, 2020
(SCOTUSblog)

Wednesday, 1 July 2020

ZOOM WEBINAR, 1 July 2020 ( 3 pm EDT): Listening to Black Clergy
(Sean Casey, Leah Daughtry, Cheryl Sanders, Adam R. Taylor, Travis B. Winckler, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

BYU religious freedom review to feature Bednar, focus on COVID-19 and racial tensions
(Emily Andersen, Daily Universe)

Conference to address COVID-19's religious freedom implications
(Anna Bryner, Daily Herald)

Thursday, 11 June 2020

ZOOM WEBINAR (registration required), 11 June 2020 (12;30 pm EDT): Global Religious and Secular Dynamics: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
(Berkley Center and Reset Dialogues on Civilizations)

ZOOM WEBINAR, 11 June 2020 (3 pm EDT): Heart, Hands, and Faith in Today's Troubled Time
(Azhar Azeez on humanitarian faithfulness by American Muslims, Rev. Michael Carson on spiritual strength from Native Americans, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum, with support from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.)

WEBINAR, 11 June 2020 (3 pm CEST, GMT+2, EDT 9 am): COVID-19, Religion and Belief Ep. 10 || Covid-19, Freedom of religion or belief, and gender
(Kishan Manocha, Ahmed Shaheed, Mariam Gavtadze, Mine Yildirim)

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (due 10 June 2020): KAICIID Fellows Programme
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

ONLINE EVENT, 10 June 2020 (2pm EDT): Religious Responsibilities in Confronting Police Brutality
(Please RRSVP by 12:00 p.m. on June 10 to receive the Zoom link to this webinar, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture.)

WEB EVENT, 10 June 2020 (10:30 am EDT): USCIRF virtual hearing on safeguarding religious freedom in Northeast Syria
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

WEBINAR, 10 June 2020 (03:00 PM in Qatar, GMT+3, 8 am EDT): China’s Role in the MENA Region Post-COVID-19
(Adel Abdel Ghafar, Degang Sun, Emilie Tran, Yahia H. Zoubir, Zeno Leoni,, The Brookings Doha Center)

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

ONLINE EVENT, 9 June 2020 (5 pm EDT) : China at a Crossroads: Standing up for Human Rights During the Pandemic
(Organizer, Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies & Raoul Wallenberg Centre For Human Rights)

ZOOM WEBINAR: 9 June 2020 (1 pm EDT): Religious Studies and the 2020 Election: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public
(David Campell, Iva E. Carruthers, Robert P. Jones, Terrence Johnson, Vincent Lloyd, Melissa Rogers, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Friday, 5 June 2020

Global Human Intelligence Forum
(Streamed from Sydney, Australia, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Thursday, 4 June 2020

WEBINAR RECORDING: Balancing in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis: Adapting and Reimagining Faith-Inspired Programs
(Olivia Wilkinson, Moderator, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | World Faiths Development Dialogue)

Saturday, 30 May 2020

GAiN Europe Series Launches May 30, 2020
(Victor Hulbert/Corrado Cozzi, Adventist News Network)

Friday, 29 May 2020

WEBINAR, 29 May 2020 (9 am EDT): "Nation State Formation and the Muslim-Majority World" with Recep Senturk
(Recep Şentürk, Jeremy Barker, and Osman Softić, Religious Freedom Institute)

EVENT: 29 May 2020 Webinar: Covid-19 and Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
(Danish Office of the Special Representative for Freedom of Religion or Belief)

Thursday, 28 May 2020

WEBINAR, 28 May 2020 (3 pm CEST, GMT +2): COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Webinar Series || EPISODE 8: Special Envoys' Perspectives
(Jan Figel', Michael Suhr, Tristan Azbej, Emanuela C. Del Re, Daria Wołosiuk)

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

WEBINAR, 27 May 2020 (3 pm EDT): Faith, Freedom in Action in Troubled Times - Program 3
(Quaker Joseph Izzo and Episcopal Reverend Canon Ted Karpf, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

WEBINAR RECORDING: Lessons from COVID-19: Building A Stronger Global Health System
(Foreign Policy)

WEBINAR, 26 May 2020 ( 2pm EDT): Democracy’s defenders — American diplomacy in the age of COVID-19
(Norman Eisen, Jeff Gedmin, Alina Polyakova, Brookings)

Friday, 22 May 2020

GOOGLE MEET EVENT, 22 March 2020 (11:30 CEST): Old identities, new times: Does the common legal identity withstand modernity?
(Sharon Shakargy, Roberto Toniatti, Nausica Palazzo, Marco Ventura, FBK-Centro Per Le Scienze Religiose and Università Di Trento-Facoltà Di Giurisprudenza)

Thursday, 21 May 2020

ONLINE ZOOM WEBINAR, 21 May 2020: The COVID-19 Crisis: Faith Engagement Between Peace and Conflict in Asia
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

WEBINAR, 21 May 2020 (3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT): COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Webinar Series || EPISODE 7: Business, Religion, Economics
(Cole Durham, Brian Grim, Azza Karam, Jeffrey Franks)

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

WEBINAR, 20 May 2020 (2 pm EDT): The Value and Limits of Religious Liberty
(A Discussion Between Thomas Farr and Ryan Anderson, Religious Freedom Institute)

ZOOM WEBINAR, 20 May 2020 (3 pm EDT): Faith, Freedom in Action in Troubled Times (Indiana Quakers and Rev. John Misao Yamazaki)
(Tom Meenan on Rev. Cotton Mather; Jackie Fishman on Rabbi Samuel Thurman, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

WEBINAR, 19 May 2020 (12 noon EDT): How Ethics and Religion Shape Policy Responses to Refugees
(David Hollenbach, S.J., T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Elizabeth Ferris, Clemens Sedmak, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University and University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs Washington Office)

Friday, 1 May 2020

COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Webinar Series Landing Page
(BYU Law ICLRS, LDS-Europe, CRS, DISPOC, FGV Direito RIo, FBK-ISR)

Tuesday, 21 April 2020

WEBINAR, 21 April 2021 (4PM CEST): Final Episode Directions for Future Research in AI and Religion- AIR2020/21
(International Conference -Artificial Intelligence and Religion, Centre for Religious Studies Centre for Information and Communication Technology Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento)

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