Calendar Events Archive


"Mediation of Meaning" Colloqium Deadline: March 1, 2010

Applications are invited for the "Mediation of Meaning" Colloqium. Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or writing project of your choice with access to libraries and research facilities at Columbia University, Union, Auburn, and … Continue reading

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The State of Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Africa

"The State of Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Africa – What Can African Interlocutors Learn from Ongoing Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the U.S.?"

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Love in the Religions of the World, 23-26 October, 2009, Hong Kong

Love in the Religions of the World, 23-26 October, 2009 The aim of this conference is to generate discussion about the role of love and the ways it is inflected throughout the faiths and religious practices of the world. 

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Conference on The Veil, Toronto, Canada

Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society This conference offers a forum to problematize the prevailing discourses surrounding the veil while exploring the veil’s subversive potential.

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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.

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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

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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

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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."

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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

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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

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