Below is a list of events that will be hosted by the Religion and Diversity Project in 2017.
April 2017
Conference – British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2017
Date: April 4 to 6 2017
Title: Recovering the Social: Personal Troubles and Public Issues
Speakers: Professor Jolyon Mitchell, Dr Abby Day & Dr Jasjit Singh
Call for papers deadline: October 14, 2016
Location: Manchester University
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Annual Meeting – Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion
Date: April 28 to 29, 2017
Title: Diversity and Equality: Texts, Traditions, and Trends
Call for papers deadline: February 15, 2017
Location: University of Waterloo
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May 2017
Conference – Re-storying Canada: Reconsidering Religion and Public Memory in 2017
Date: May 18 to 20, 2017
Keynote Speakers: Margaret Atwood, Leah Kostamo, Maher Arar, Sheema Khan, Zarqa Nawaz, George Elliott Clarke, and Jean-Phillippe Warren
Location: At University of Ottawa and in selected venues of its partners, Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, and the National Gallery of Canada
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July 2017
Conference – Sociology of Religion Study Group (SocRel) Annual Conference 2017
Date: July 12 to 14, 2017
Theme: On the Edge? Centres and Margins in the Sociology of Religion
Keynote speakers: Professor Bryan Turner (City University of New York), Professor Kim Knott (University of Lancaster), Professor Philip Mellor (University of Leeds)
Location: University of Leeds
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August 2017
Workshop – The Politics of Yoga: Sex, Religion, and Power in a Global Industry
Date: August 4, 2017
Title: Politics of Yoga
Location: University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
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Annual Meeting – 79th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
Date: August 13 to 14, 2017
Title: Religion and Division: Causes, Consequences and Counters
Call for papers deadline: March 31, 2017
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Workshop – Radicalizations, extremisms and religious studies: Theories, critics and empirical research
Date: August 15, 2017
Title: Radicalizations, extremisms and religious studies: Theories, critics and empirical research
Location: Montréal, Québec
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September 2017
Workshop – Producing Islam(s) in Canada
Date: September 14 to 15, 2017
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Workshop – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion, Reason and Faith
Date: September 28 to 29, 2017
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Lecture – Critical Thinkers in Religion, Law and Social Theory
Date: September 30, 2017
Title: Defending God’s Own Community: Violent Scripts of Contemporary Religious Communities
Speaker: Hans G. Kippenberg
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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October 2017
Annual Meeting – Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Date: October 13 to 15, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
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Where our societies are in terms of management of cultural and religious diversity? Ten years after the Commission Bouchard-Taylor
Date: October 19 to 21, 2017
Location: Montréal, Québec
Religion and Diversity Project – Annual Team Meeting and Final Conference
Date: October 26 to 28, 2017
Location: University of Ottawa
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November 2017
Symposium – Étudier la religion au Québec: Regards d’ici et d’ailleurs
Date: November 30 to December 2, 2017
Location: Montréal, Québec
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