Religion and Politics Working Group (RPWG) Chair: Professor Olivier Roy (SPS/RSCAS)
About the RPWG Schedule (2011-2012) Events Workshops Conferences Lectures Useful Links Working groups and learned societies Data archives Journals Funding Other Contacts		The Religion and Politics Working Group is one of the various working groups hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. It is a forum for those interested in work related to religion and politics broadly defined. It is open to all members and guests of the EUI and we particularly encourage visiting scholars to present their work to the group.
		Schedule 2011-2012 April 26, 2012 - RPWG Presentations Title: The Necessity of Death: Historiography in International Relations and the Reification of Religion Maria Birnbaum Seminar Room 3 (11.00-13.00) March 5, 2012 - RPWG Presentations Title: Religious Freedom and the Public-Private Divide: A Broken Promise for Europe? Alessandro Ferrari Seminar Room 3 (11.00-13.00) February 2, 2012 - RPWG Presentations Title: Intergroup relations and support for violence among Muslim immigrants in Europe. Milan Obaidi Seminar Room 4 (14.00-16.00) February 1, 2012 – Religio-West Project Lecture Series Title: Religious Freedom—American Style—At Home and Abroad—Two Decades After Smith Prof. Winnifred Sullivan - University of Buffalo Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana 11.00-13.00 14^th October 2011 – ReligioWest Kick Off Meeting Sala Europa (Villa Schifanoia) 09:00-19:30 Schedule 2010-11 April 11, 2011 – Religion and the United Nations: The role of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Thomas Uthup – UN Alliance of Civilizations Research and Education Manager Seminario II (Badia) (11:00-12:30) March 30, 2011 - Turkish Sohbet as a Cognitive Practice. Comparing Turkey and USA Maria Concetta Tedesco (SPS) AND Secularism: Challenging the Liberal Subject Maria Birnbaum (SPS) Seminario III (Badia) (11:00-12:30) March 24, 2011 - Revealing Religious Ethics in International Politics Cecelia M. Lynch (University of California) Villa Malafrasca, (15:00-16:30) March 17-19, 2011 – Conference: Converts as Commuters: Conversions in the Mediterranean World (RSC) Sala del Capitolo (Badia) February 15, 2011 – Workshop: The Construction of Religion by the Social Sciences (RSC,SPS) Sala del Capitolo (Badia), (14:00-18-00) February 11, 2011 - Religious Fundamentalism and Politics in Democratic Regimes Luca Ozzano (University of Turin, Chair of the 'politics and religion' standing group of the Italian Political Science Society) Seminario II (Badia) (11:00-12:30) December 16-17, 2010 - Second annual workshop - Religious Norms in the Public Sphere Villa Malafrasca December 10, 2010 - The Holy See and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 A. Alexander Stummvoll (SPS) Seminario III (Badia) (17:15-18:45) November 12, 2010 - Conversion as statelessness, a study of contemporary Algerian Conversions to Evangelical Christianity Nadia Marzouki (Jean Monnet Fellow, RSCAS) Seminario III (Badia) (17:15-18:45) October 22, 2010 - A Schism within Sikhism - The emergence of a caste-based religious group: A case study of the Ravidassias Kathryn Dominique Lum (SPS) Seminario III (Badia) (11:00-12:30) Schedule 2009-2010 June 17, 2010 - Islamists and leftists between attraction and repulsion in Lebanon Nicolas Dot-Pouillard (RSCAS) Villa Malafrasca (17.00-18.00) May 20,2010 – Religion and the 2010 UK general election Timothy Peace (SPS) Seminario II (Badia) (17.00-18.00) April 29, 2010 – Religious and political identities within civic engagement in Italy Alberta Giorgi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Sala del Capitolo (Badia) (17.00-18.00) March 25, 2010 – Institutionalizing Allah: Islamic religious authorities and support for democratization in the Middle East Georges Fahmi (SPS) Seminario II (Badia) (17.00-18.00) March 4, 2010 - Thinking with Talal Asad: On Suicide Bombing Ayça Çubukçu (MWP) Seminario IV (Badia) (17.00-18.00) February 25, 2010 – Church-State Relations in Brazil: The 2008 Concordat with the Holy See Evaldo Xavier Gomes (Pontificia Università Lateranense) Seminario IV (Badia) (17.00-18.00) January 28, 2010 – The Vatican and the Cold War, 1947-1991 Alexander Stummvoll (SPS) Seminario IV (Badia) (17.00-18.00) December 10, 2009 - Post-secularism and norms in the domestic and in the international arena: theoretical puzzles (abstract) Kristina Stöckl (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata") Seminario II (Badia), (17.00-18.00) Note that this will be followed by the start of the first Islamic and Religious Norms in the Public Sphere workshop. November 26, 2009 - Round table discussion about the ECtHR decision to ban crucifixes in Italian state schools Featuring Susanna Mancini (Università di Bologna) Francesco Francioni (LAW) Olivier Roy (SPS) and Pasquale Annicchino (Università degli Studi di Siena) Discussion chaired by Timothy Peace (SPS) Seminario II (Badia) (17.00 – 18.30) October 27, 2009 – Exploring Islamist Activism in Repressive States Emin Poljarevic (SPS) Seminario II (Badia) (15.00-16.00)
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