Soon (2013-2014):
April 10-11, 2014
Title: Rethinking European Christian Democracy
Villa Salviati – Alcide De Gasperi room
Via Bolognese 156 – Firenze
Thursday 10 April 2014 14:00 - 17:30
Friday 11 April 2014 09:00 - 17:00
Programme
Abstract:
Christian Democracy has played a major role in the domestic politics of numerous European countries, as well as in the creation of a transnational political order across the continent. The aim of the workshop is to trace the intellectual origins of this political movement, discuss the complex relationship that it had with the Catholic Church, and to determine the role it played in the process of European integration. Finally, we would like to assess the current shape of Christian Democratic movement, to understand whether it is still a distinctive political phenomenon. In order to address these problems, we have invited several distinguished political scientists, historians and philosophers working on different aspects of Christian Democratic phenomena. The workshop will open with a keynote lecture delivered by Jan Werner Mueller (Princeton University) entitled "Christian Democracy: Towards a New Intellectual History." An important part of the event will be a presentation of Alcido de Gasperi’s private documents, now based in the Historical Archives of the European Union.
Organisers: Olivier Roy (RSCAS/EUI) and Michal Matlak (RSCAS/EUI)
Previous Years (2009-2013):
Conferences
October 14, 2011 – ReligioWest Kick Off Meeting. Read
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March 17-19 2011 – Conference: Converts as Commuters:
Conversions in the Mediterranean World (RSC) Read
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December 16-18, 2010 - RSCAS
Title: Religious Norms in the Public Sphere
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November 26, 2009 - RPWG Round table
Title: the ECtHR decision to ban crucifixes in Italian
state schools
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)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (17.00 – 18.30)
Lectures
March 18, 2014
Title: American Foreign
Policy in a Postsecular World Society
Gregorio Bettiza (Max Weber Fellow,
SPS)
February 26,
2014
Title: Weapons of the Meek:
How Churches Influence Public Policy.
Anna Grzymała-Busse (University of
Michigan)
March 21, 2013 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Religious Actors in International peace Mediation:
Sant'Egidio and the Algerian Civil War
Jenny Holmsen (SPS)
Convento (13.00-14.30)
February 25, 2013 - RPWG Book Presentation
Title: Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies
Massimo Rosati (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and
Kristina Stoeckl (EUI Visiting Fellow
ReligioWest/University of Vienna)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 4 (13:00-14:30)
February 21, 2013 - ReligioWest Lecture
Title: Secularism in Crisis? What Crisis?
Tariq Modood (University Research Centre for the Study of
Ethnicity and Citizenship University of Bristol)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (15:00-17:00)
January 24, 2013 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Civilizational Politics in International Relations:
the Social and Material Construction
of the “Muslim world” in American Foreign Policy Practices
and Institutions
Gregorio Bettiza(SPS)
Emeroteca (13:00-14:30)
November 29, 2012 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Between Mediation and Commitment: the Catholic
Church and Basque Conflict
Xabier Itcaina(SPS)
Convento (14:00-16:00)
November 15, 2012 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Nationalism in Religion- Religion in Nationalism
Piotr Kisiel (HEC)
Emeroteca (14:00-16:00)
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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
April 11, 2011 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Religion and the United Nations: The role of the
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Thomas Uthup ( UN Alliance of Civilizations Research and
Education Manager)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (11:00-12:30)
March 30, 2011 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Turkish Sohbet as a Cognitive Practice. Comparing
Turkey and USA
Maria Concetta Tedesco (SPS) / Secularism: Challenging the
Liberal Subject
Maria Birnbaum (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 3 (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
February 11, 2011 - RPWG Presentations
Title: 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)
Badia Fiesolana, Room2 (11:00-12:30)
December 10, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title: The Holy See and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975
A. Alexander Stummvoll (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 3 (17:15-18:45)
November 12, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Conversion as statelessness, a study of
contemporary Algerian Conversions to Evangelical
Christianity
Nadia Marzouki (Jean Monnet Fellow, RSCAS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 3 (17:15-18:45)
October 22, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title: A Schism within Sikhism - The emergence of a
caste-based religious group: A case study of the
Ravidassias
Kathryn Dominique Lum (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 3 (11:00-12:30)
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 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Religion and the 2010 UK general election
Timothy Peace (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (17.00-18.00)
April, 29 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title: 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 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Institutionalizing Allah: Islamic religious
authorities and support for democratization in the Middle
East
Georges Fahmi (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (17.00-18.00)
March 4, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title:Thinking with Talal Asad: On Suicide Bombing
Ayça Çubukçu (MWP)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 4 (17.00-18.00)
February 25, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Church-State Relations in Brazil: The 2008
Concordat with the Holy See
Evaldo Xavier Gomes (Pontificia Università Lateranense)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 4 (17.00-18.00)
January 28, 2010 - RPWG Presentations
Title:The Vatican and the Cold War, 1947-1991
Alexander Stummvoll (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 4 (17.00-18.00)
December 10, 2009 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Post-secularism and norms in the domestic and in
the international arena: theoretical puzzles
Kristina Stöckl (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor
Vergata")
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (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.
October 27, 2009 - RPWG Presentations
Title: Exploring Islamist Activism in Repressive States
Emin Poljarevic (SPS)
Badia Fiesolana, Room 2 (15.00-16.00)
Workshops
September 20-21, 2013: ReligioWest Workshop
Title: Judging Faith: an international dialogue on the
jurisprudence on religion in courts.
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May 30 - June 1, 2013: ReligioWest & SPS Workshop
Title: Beyond critique. New approaches in the study of
religion and the secular. ReligioWest workshop (Speakers:
Nilüfer Göle (ADIS - EHESS, Paris), Veit Bader (Univ.
Amsterdam)
Badia Fiesolana, Theatre (09.00-18.00)
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May 13, 2013 - ReligioWest Workshop
Title: Love, nature and marriage in the West, between law
and religion
Badia Fiesolana, Room 3 (09.00-18.00)
February 11-12, 2013 - ReligioWest Workshop
Title:The formatting of religions: religious accommodation
in prisons and the military
Badia Fiesolana, Theatre (09.00-17.00) read
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November 19, 2012 - ReligioWest Workshop
Title: Religion in U.S. Election
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November 17, 2012 - ReligioWest Workshop
Title: Protecting the Right to Freedom of Religion or
Belief: Which one?
Sala del Capitolo (09:30- 19:30)
June 3-4, 2011 - SPS Workshop
Title: Theoretically found, conceptually lost: How (not)
to study the politics of religion.
Sala del Capitolo (09:30- 19:30)
February 15, 2011 – Workshop: (RSC,SPS): The Construction
of Religion by the Social Sciences Read
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June 7-8, 2010 – Studying religion: Theoretical and
methodological challenges.
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December 16-17, 2010 - Second annual workshop - Religious Norms in the Public Sphere. Read more
December 10, 2009 - RSCAS, The Mediterranean Programme
Title: Islamic and Religious Norms in the Public Sphere
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