Below is a list of events that will be hosted by the Religion and Diversity Project in 2019.
March 2019
Lecture – Big Ideas Lecture Series at Canadian Heritage
Date: March 1, 2019
Title: Deep Equality: Big Ideas talk with Dr. Lori Beaman
Speaker: Dr. Lori Beaman
Location: Department of Canadian Heritage, 25 Eddy, 13th Floor, Room 400 or via webcast
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Lecture – Critical Thinkers in Religion, Law, and Social Theory
Date: March 7, 2019, 5:30 to 7:00pm
Title: La notion de « religion » dans la cour de justice : Une étude comparée entre le Québec et le japon
Speaker: Kiyonobu Date, University of Tokyo
Location: University of Ottawa, FSS 4006
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Conferénce Publique
Date: March 14, 2019, 12:15 to 2:00pm (followed by reception)
Title: Entre visibilité et invisibilité: nouvelle géographie des faits religieux en contexte urbain
Speaker: Frédéric Dejean, l’Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM)
Location: University of Ottawa, Social Sciences Building room FSS 4004
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Lecture – Critical Thinkers in Religion, Law, and Social Theory
Date: March 28, 2019, 4:00 to 5:30pm (followed by reception)
Title: Atheist Theory: Developing ways of thinking about non-belief that don’t involve religion
Speaker: Callum Brown, University of Glasgow
Location: University of Ottawa, Simard Hall 129
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Professor Brown’s lecture abstract can be found here.
August 2019
Lecture – Penser le Religieux, d’Hier à Demain : Objets, Savoirs, Interventions
Date: August 27 to 29, 2019
Title: « La religion de près. L’activité religieuse en train de se faire : retour sur une approche pragmatique originale de la religion »
Speakers: Albert Piette, Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, France; Laurent Amiotte-Suchet, Haute école de santé Vaud, Suisse; Valérie Amiraux, Université de Montréal, Canada; Lori Beaman, Université d’Ottawa, Canada; et Frédéric Dejean, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Location and time: Université du Québec à Montréal, Pavillon J.-A. Desève, Wednesday August 28th, 11:00am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-3:30pm
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