Secularism, Separation, (Non-)Establishment: The Liberal State vs. Religion?
Time
28. - 29. June 2019
9:30 - 17:15
Location
Bischofsvilla, Otto-Adam-Strasse 5, 78467 Konstanz
Organizer
Speaker:
FRIDAY 28 JUNE
09:30 - 11:00 Simon Thompson (UWE Bristol) – Alienation, Estrangement, and Establishment Anna Blijdenstein (University of Amsterdam) – Theological foundations of politics? Disaggregation as a response to genealogical critiques of “religion”
11:30 - 13:00 Sune Lægaard (Roskilde University) – Liberal Nationalism and Symbolic Establishment Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) – Indian Secularism
14:30 - 16:00 Roland Pierik (University of Amsterdam) – Kompetenz Kompetenz Kompetenz Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia) – The Unreasonableness of Catholic Integralism
16:30 - 18:00 Cristobal Bellolio (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez) – The problem with nativity crèche from a disaggregation approach: the Chilean case Sebastián Rudas (University of São Paulo) – Religious Partisanship and Public Reason in Minimally Secular States
SATURDAY 29 JUNE
09:30 - 11:00 Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway, University of London) – The Value of Sacred Places Christoph Baumgartner (Utrecht University) – Sacred Time in Public Culture: Holidays and Public Commemorations of Past Events
11:30 - 13:00 Alexa Zellentin (University College Dublin) – Education for Citizenship in a Changing Country: The Case of Ireland Élise Rouméas (University of Oxford) – Freedom of (extreme) association, exit rights and ISIS fighters
14:30 - 17:15 Nahshon Perez (Bar Ilan University) – State-Funded Religious Associations and Non-Discrimination Rules: on Immunity and Public Funding Andrew Shorten (University of Limerick) – Toleration and Religious Discrimination Nick Martin (University of Liverpool) – Discrimination and Religious Adoption Agencies