Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 1 April 2022
WEBINAR, 1 April 2022 (9AM Eastern): Two-year updates from National and Regional Faith Actor COVID-19 Responses
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Thursday, 31 March 2022
NOMINATIONS FOR AWARD, due 31 March 2022: Jinnah Award for Religious Tolerance
(APPG for Pakistani Minorities)
WEBINAR, 31 March 2022 (11AM ET): The Ongoing Assault on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Cuba: An Update from CSW and Cuban Faith Leaders
(Outreach Aid to the Americas and CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
EVENT, 29-30 March 2022: Rev. Dr. Jay Augustine to deliver 2022 Shurden Lectures on the campuses of Mercer University
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
EVENT, 30 March 2022 (7:30PM Dublin): 'Taking Stock: assessing the last two years and the road ahead'
(The Iona Institute)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 March 2022 (8AM MST): International Law and the War in Ukraine (with Marko Milanovic)
(Athens Public International Law Center)
EVENT, 7 April 2022: Interfaith Ramadan Celebration- IEA & PTIJ
(Interfaith Encounter Association)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
WEBINAR, 29 March 2022: Interreligious Perspectives on Peace: A Conversation with Fadi Daou
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 29 March 2022 (11AM ET): IRF Webinar | Advocating to eliminate the death penalty for blasphemy and apostasy laws
(International Religious Freedom Roundtable)
WEBINAR, 29 March 2022 (19:00 CET): Is the EU as a community of shared legal principles in a crisis?
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
Monday, 28 March 2022
WEBINAR, March 28, 2022 (12:30PM EDT): Wahhabism and the World: A Conversation with Peter Mandaville
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Friday, 25 March 2022
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, deadline 25 March 2022: Multi-Religious Humanitarian Fund
(Religions for Peace)
Primeiro Simpósio Brasileiro De Liberdade Religiosa
(Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Direito e Religião, Brasil; e Centro Internacional de Estudos de Direito e Religião, J. Reuben Clark Law School,Brigham Young University, EUA)
Thursday, 24 March 2022
EVENT, 24-25 March 2022: Beyond “Defensive Crouch,” Religious Freedom
(Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University)
WEBINAR, 24 March 2022 (12:30PM EDT): We God’s People: A Book Launch Event
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 24 March 2022 (16:30 CET): "But let justice roll on like a river" (EU mandatory due diligence legislation)
(COMECE, CIDSE and Iglesias y Minería)
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
WEBINAR, 23 March 2022 (2PM ET): Corporate Chaplaincy
(Chaplaincy Innovation Lab)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
WEBINAR, 22 March 2022 (4PM London): Violations of FoRB as a Driver of Forced Migration
(Lord Alton of Liverpool, Fiona Bruce MP, Brendan O'Hara MP, the APPG on the Yazidis and the APPG on IFoRB)
Sunday, 20 March 2022
EVENT, 17-20 March 2022: 3rd European Catholic Social Days. Europe - beyond the pandemic: a new beginning
(Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe, Slovak Episcopal Conference, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
Friday, 18 March 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 17-18 March 2022: Keough School Dignity & Development Forum
(Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 18 March 2022 (10AM ET): The Ideological Origins of India’s BJP
(Hudson Institute)
Thursday, 17 March 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 17 March 2022 (16:30 Sao Paulo): Brazil: Religious Freedom and Peace (Portuguese)
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
WEBINAR, 16 March 2022, (12PM Santiago, Chile): Libertad Religiosa y Libertad de Cátedra
(Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa)
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
WEBINAR, 15 March 2022 (1PM CET): The Expendable and Targeted Communities: Religious or Belief Minorities at Risk. Session Two: the UN Special Rapporteur’s new report on conflict & instability & the situation of religious minorities in Iraq & Myanmar
(International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute and the U. S. Mission to the United Nations)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 15 March 2022 (8AM EDT): Religious Leaders Contending with the Common Enemy of COVID-19
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 14 March 2022
ESSAY CONTEST, 14 March 2022: Annual Religious Liberty Essay Scholarship Contest (High School)
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Friday, 11 March 2022
WEBINAR, 11 March 2022 (9AM EST): Faith and the COVID-19 Pandemic at Two Years: A Retrospective
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 11 March 2022 (2PM CET): The Expendable and Targeted Communities: Religious or Belief Minorities at Risk. Session One: recommendations from the Forum on Minority Issues & the situation of minorities in Xinjiang, Afghanistan & Nigeria
(International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute and the U. S. Mission to the United Nations)
WEBINAR, 17 March 2022 (12PM EDT): Cathonomics: Can Catholic social thought provide the basis for a more just economic paradigm?
(A Conversation with Anthony M. Annett, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Thursday, 10 March 2022
EVENT, 10-11 March 2022: 2022 Church History Symposium—Latter-day Saints and Religious Liberty: Historical and Global Perspectives
(BYU Department of Church History and Doctrine and the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
EVENT, 10-12 March 2022: Wellbeing of digitalized societies and work place
(Conference of European Churches)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 8-10 March 2022: Training for Civil Society on Addressing Anti-Christian Hate Crime
(Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
WEBINAR, 10 March 2022 (14:30 UCT/Ghana, 15:30 Nigeria, 16:30 So Africa): ACLARS 2022 Regional Webinar Series - #2: Law, Religion and International Relations in West Africa: The Way Forward
(African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and the West African Regional Centre for Law and Religion Studies (WARCLARS))
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
WEBINAR, 9 March 2022 (8PM ET): Securing Religious Freedom: The Eruv Litigations: Robert G. Sugarman, Esq. & Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Esq.
(Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 9 March 2022 (10:30 AM in London): APPG special meeting on preventing persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in India
(All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
WEBINAR, 8 March 2022 (10:30 AM ET): Women’s Roles in Advancing International Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Friday, 4 March 2022
EVENT, 4 March 2022 (17:00 CET): Ukrainian Churches in the Time of War Round table discussion
(Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Libertas Center for Interreligious Dialogue)
EVENT, 21 February - 4 March 2022: Faith for Earth Dialogue at UNEA 5.2
(United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA))
Thursday, 3 March 2022
WEBINAR, 3 March 2022 (12PM ET): Building Allyship & Collaboration
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
WEBINAR, 3 March 2022 (12PM ET): Global Prayers for Ukraine
(Parliament of the World’s Religions and The Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN)
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS (AJLR) , due 1 March 2022: Submissions open for 2022
(Australian Journal of Law & Religion)
WEBINAR, 1 March 2022 (6AM EST): Faith Engagement and COVID-19: What Really Works? Looking Back to Look Forward: COVID-19 Faith Reflections on 2020-2021
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 28 February 2022
WEBINAR, 28 February 2022 (12:30 ET): Iranian Soft Power and Religion in Bosnia: A Conversation with Harun Karčić
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Saturday, 26 February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 26 February 2022 (9:30AM EST): Religious activism and political change; political activism and religious change
(Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College)
Friday, 25 February 2022
EVENT, 25 to 27 February 2022: European Regional Pre-Assembly for WCC 11th Assembly
(Conference of European Churches and World Council of Churches, Warsaw, Poland)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 25 February 2022 (1PM CT): Philosophy & Religion Forum for Spring 2022 Features Three Online Presentations
(Aness Kim Webster, Kurt Blankschaen, Sheldon Solomon, The University of Southern Mississippi)
Thursday, 24 February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 20-24 February 2022: Week of Neighbours: Strengthening interreligious relations between faith-based actors working with and for migrants and refugees in Europe
(A World of Neighbours)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 24 February 2022 (14.00 CET): Climate change and FORB: Protecting our environment and needs of all
(International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB))
VIRTUAL EVENT, 24 February 2022 (12:10PM ET): Faith & Native Communities: Fighting for freedom of/from religion
(The Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Columbia Law School)
Monday, 21 February 2022
EVENT, 21 February 2022 (12:30PM ET): RLI Book Discussion: Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?
(University of Notre Dame Law School)
Friday, 18 February 2022
CALL FOR ESSAYS: abstracts due 18 February 2022: Thinking the Unthinkable: Beyond International Law’s Imaginaries
(The Women in International Law Network (WILNET))
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
EVENT, 15 February 2022 (10:00 am PST): Community Storytelling for Policy Change - The Lasting Influence of Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and the 1992 LA Uprising
(Center for Religion and Civic Culture)
Monday, 14 February 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS, abstracts due 14 February 2022: The Reality of International Legal Theory
(iCourts, the University of Copenhagen, and the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy)
NEW COURSE, 14-25 February 2022: Human Dignity in Legal Procedures (Spain)
(Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law)
Sunday, 13 February 2022
NEW COURSE, applications due 13 February 2022: Religion and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
(Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM))
Friday, 11 February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 11 February 2022 (9:45AM ET): Religion, Science, and Diplomacy
(The Fletcher Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy)
Thursday, 10 February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 10 February 2022 (12PM ET): The Olympics Boycott Series - Part 3: The New Threat to Religious Freedom in Hong Kong
(Hudson Institute)
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
WEBINAR, 9 February 2022 (10:30AM ET): USCIRF Hearing: Anti-Muslim Policies and Bias in Europe
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
WEBINAR, 8-9 February 2022: 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipin@: Postcolonial Perspectives
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 9 February 2022 (12PM ET): Christian nationalism and the January 6, 2021, insurrection
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
WEBINAR, 8 February 2022 (11AM ET): July 11 and the Faith Community's Leadership in Cuba
(Outreach Aid to the Americas)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 8 February 2022 (5:30PM London): Freedom of Religion or Belief in Nepal: Mapping Report Launch
(All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 8 February 2022 (08:30 Tehran): Islamic Revolution Discourse; Software of Resistance in World
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Thursday, 3 February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 3 February 2022 (07:00 MST): HRLC Annual Lecture - Women’s Rights are Human Rights: A Perspective from Afghanistan
(Human Rights Law Centre)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 3 February 2022 (12PM ET): Barbara Phillips to Discuss Google’s Growing Inter Belief Network (IBN)
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
WEBINAR, 2 February 2022 (11AM EST): USCIRF Conversation on the Global Compact on Refugees
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Sunday, 30 January 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS, 30 January 2022: Virtual Conference: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in Turkey
(Freedom of Belief Initiative)
Friday, 28 January 2022
VIRTUAL COURSE: January and February 2022: Martyrs, Minorities, Faith And Fidelity: Exploring ‘Loyalty’ In Christianity And Islam
(Emory Continuing Education)
Thursday, 27 January 2022
WEBINAR, 27 January 2022 (11AM EST): The Enduring Presence of Religion in the Making of Europe: A Launch Event for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
WEBINAR, 26 January 2022 (12PM in Brussels): Open Doors' World Watch List 2022: EU Launch
(Open Doors)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 26 January 2022 (5PM GMT): The future of human rights protection in the UK – a “Modern Bill of Rights”?
(University of Leicester)
Monday, 24 January 2022
EVENT, 24 January 2022 (12:25PM ET): Law Review Symposium: Re-Thinking the Law to Ensure the Protection of Religious Minorities
(University of Notre Dame Law School)
Thursday, 20 January 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 20 January 2022 (14:00 CET): Health and FORB: Promoting health and well-being for all
(The International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB))
WEBINAR, 20 January 2022 (2PM ET): Racism in the Media-Manufacturing Hate
(G20 Interfaith Forum)
WEBINAR, 20 January 2022 (11AM ET): Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Listening to the Voices of Survivors
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
WEBINAR, 18 January 2022 (12PM ET): National Committee for Religious Freedom Launch Event
(National Committee for Religious Freedom)
Thursday, 13 January 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, January - April 2022: What it means to be human: Implications for public policy & bioethics
(Bur Oak Foundation and the Program on Health, Spirituality & Religion at the University of Michigan Medical School)
Monday, 10 January 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS, 10 January 2022: Digital persecution, an international interdisciplinary academic conference
(Open Doors UK, University of Birmingham, University of Roehampton)
Wednesday, 5 January 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 5 January 2022 (3PM EST): First Five Now: Are we a Christian nation?
(Asma Uddin and Jim Eaton, Freedom Forum Institute)
WEBINAR, 5 January 2022 (12PM EST): Institutional Religious Freedom: Exploring Contemporary Policy Challenges
(Religious Freedom Institute and The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law)
Thursday, 16 December 2021
WEBINAR, 16-17 December 2021 (9AM CET): Mapping Religious Difference in Europe: The Atlas of Religious or Belief Minority Rights
(University of Trento)
WEBINAR, 16 December 2021 (12:30PM EST): Common Ground: Engaging Religious Dimensions in the Search for Peace
(A Conversation with Sharon Rosen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Thursday, 9 December 2021
WEBINAR, 9 December 2021 (9AM ET): 2021 Interreligious Council (IRC) Development Global Webinar Series: Championing Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion
(Religions for Peace)
WEBINAR, 9 December 2021 (7:30 GMT/14:30 Bangkok): SEAFORB Webinar 6--Protecting the Social Space Needed to Optimize Religious Contributions to Society: Fostering Collaboration for Sustainable Development, Peace Building, and COVID Recovery
(Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
WEBINAR, 8 December 2021 (10:30AM ET): State-Sanctioned Religious Freedom Violations and Coercion by Saudi Arabia and Iran
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 8 December 2021, 6:00 pm CST (US): Everyone Everywhere: The Rights that Unite Us – Bill and Barbara Benac Human Dignity and Fairness for All Lecture, Dallas, Texas, United States
(World Affairs Council Dallas Fort Worth)
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
WEBINAR, New Date: 7 December 2021 (11AM): USCIRF Conversation: Democracy and Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Friday, 3 December 2021
WEBINAR, 3 December 2021 (12:30PM EST): Authoritarianism and Misinformation in Eastern Europe
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
VIRTUAL HEARING, 8 December 2021 (10:30AM ET): State-Sanctioned Religious Freedom Violations and Coercion by Saudi Arabia and Iran
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Thursday, 2 December 2021
WEBINAR, 2 December 2021 (12:15PM ET): Who is a Convert? The Law of Return and the Legality of Reform and Conservative Conversions in Israel
(Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University)
WEBINAR, 2 December 2021 (12:30PM ET): Turkey's Influence on Bosnian Islam: A Conversation with Harun Karčić
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
WEBINAR, 1 December 2021 (11:30AM ET): What Happened in France? Listening to the Voices of Survivors
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 1 December 2021 (14:00 GMT/21:00 Bangkok): SEAFORB Webinar 5--Myanmar in Crisis: What the Coup and Conflict mean for Freedom of Religion or Belief
(Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference)
WEBINAR, 1 December 2021 (14:00 CET): EU-Africa partnership: Returning (to) cultural heritage
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
EVENT, 7 December 2021 (19:00 CET): Our hope for Europe: Conference on the Future of Europe
(Conference of European Churches, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and Chapel for Europe)
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
NEW CALL FOR PAPERS (Sixth ICLARS Conference), Deadline 30 November 2021
(International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, Sixth ICLARS Conference, Cordoba, 19-21 September 2022)
WEBINAR, 30 November 2021 (11:30AM EST): COVID-19, Children, and Caregiver Loss: From Data to Action
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 29 November 2021
WEBINAR, 29 November 2021 (15:00 GMT/22:00 Bangkok): SEAFORB Webinar 4--Vietnam: How to engage international community to combatting intolerance and coping with repression
(Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference)
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