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.  

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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 hear scholars on the latest scholarship. The sessions are not recorded. 

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Talks on the horizon include:​​

• October 5 th at 10:30am ET with Leslie Dorrough Smith for Compromising Positions : Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity (in English; sign up here ).

• In November 2026 with Maria Birnbaum for Before Recognition: How the Politics of Religion shaped the International Order (Cambridge UP, 2026; in English; sign up soon).

• December 4 th at 10:30am ET with the editors and three contributors of Religions et laïcités en France et en Belgique, 1990-2020 (in French; sign up here ).

• January 27, 2027 with Charles McCrary for Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (in English; sign up here ).

• In March 2027 with the editors and select authors of Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Mariage Debates .

• And two others, to be announced shortly.