Upcoming Events
Our online new books lecture series
Join hosts Melanie Adrian, Amélie Barras & Jennifer Selby for "New Books - Live - on Secularism, Gender, Law & Politics," an online series featuring new books in these fields. Sign up for individual talks with the links below.
This one-hour online series began in the early days of the global pandemic. The series brings together scholars interested in secularism, gender, law and politics in a lively and informal manner and allows us all to keep up to date with the latest scholarship. The sessions are not recorded.
Talks in the Winter 2025 semester include:
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Friday, February 7th at 12pm ET with Rabiat Akande on Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (in English, sign up here).
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Friday, March 21st at 12pm ET with Mona Oraby on Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (in English, sign up here).
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Friday, April 4th at 11am ET with Deborah Reed-Danahay on Sideways Migration: Being French in London (in English, sign up here).
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Friday, May 23rd at 11am ET with Géraldine Mossière on Portraits de la modernité (non) religieuse : quelques confidences de baby-boomers au Québec (in French; sign up here).
We’ll then be back in September, with these speakers for Fall 2025:
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Friday, September 19th at 11am ET with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States (in English, sign up here).
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Friday, October 10th at 11am ET with Jennifer Selby for Secular Sensibilities: Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec (in English; sign up here).
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Friday, December 5th at 12pm ET with Carol Ferrera for Muslim and Catholic Experiences of National Belonging in France: Rethinking Boundaries Inequities, and Faith in the Republic (in English; sign up here).
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