Calendar Events Archive
Engaging the Other: The Power of Compassion
At a time when polarization is the true culprit, a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary conference addressing fear-based belief systems, negative stereotypes, polarization, enemy images, scapegoating, and artificial barriers of distrust that divide us.
UME: Civic Engagement Workshop in Cairo Egypt, March 24-31, 2010
The Civic Engagement Workshop will be a one-week, cultural, professional, and intellectual exchange opportunity between high school teachers and youth organization professionals from the United States and the Middle East. The Civic Engagement Workshop provides a forum for exchange among … Continue reading
Register by September 21: Flow of Concepts and Institutions
"Conceptualising Religiosity and Governance" will raise core questions about how concepts structure perception and social institutions, and whether one can differentiate at all between emic and etic concepts in a transcultural context. The 'Cluster of Excellence' – 'Asia and Europe … Continue reading
5-9 April, 2010: Course on teaching about Religions and Beliefs
Course in Bolu, Turkey, 5-9 April, 2010, on "Teaching and Learning about Religions and Beliefs in a Human Rights Context."
Buddhism and Diaspora Conference, Scarborough, Canada
The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora, conference from Friday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010 will take place in Toronto, Canade. This international and interdisciplinary conference will examine the role religion, and specifically Buddhism, plays within diasporic … Continue reading
Muslim Women and Modernity: Quran and Sunnah Perspective
At present, negative accusations are being addressed to Muslim women as if Islam confiscates their freedom and marginalizes their role to the periphery. This conference attempts to respond to the negative accusation in the hands of orientalists and liberal scholars. … Continue reading
Muslim Jewish Conference for "Young Individuals"
The first annual Muslim Jewish Conference will be held from the 1st until the 6pth of August 2010 in Vienna. The venue for the conference will be the institute of International Development on the University of Vienna campus. The target … Continue reading
Law, Religion and Education: Religious Freedom in the Sphere of Education
This conference will examine key concepts and case studies on issues raised by the topical issues raised by the tensions between law, religion and education in Europe, from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective.
Intercultural Education: Paideia, Polity, Demoi
Intercultural Education: Paideia, Polity, Demoi: Athens, June 24-26, 2009– Intercultural education (paideia), migrant populations (demoi) and multicultural societies (demoi)
"Christianity in the Post-Secular University?" East Lansing, MI, USA, 30-31 October, 2009
Lecture and panel discussion on "Christianity in the Post-Secular University?"

