Announcements

Practices of women’s modesty, such as donning modest attire, covering the head or abiding by traditional gender relations, has significant religious, cultural, and social importance in Jewish and Muslim communities. This webinar seeks to delve into motivations and practices of Orthodox Jewish and Muslim women in Canada, the U.S. and Israel. Bringing together scholars from these two groups, this webinar aims to explore the intersections of ethnoreligious belief and belonging, as well as the researchers’ worldviews and the ways these views shape the research process. Participants: Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University; Ilana Celeste, University of Pittsburgh; Valentina Gaddi, University of Montreal, Canada; Adina Bankier-Karp, Monash University, Australia; Sawsan Kheir, University of Haifa, Israel and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Moderator: Ariela Keysar, Trinity College. Register at office@sssreligion.org.

Nominations are invited for the 2025 Boniuk Institute Senior Scholar. The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance’s Senior Scholar Award is given annually to the senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the public understanding of religious pluralism and tolerance, and who most exemplifies Boniuk Institute’s mission to understand the conditions which lead to religious pluralism, conflict, and violence, and help people apply its findings in their lives and communities. The Senior Scholar will join the Boniuk Institute at Rice University in the Spring of 2025 for about three days, where they will participate in a variety of Institute programs and give a public lecture followed by a reception in their honor, where they will be presented with an award and an honorarium.

We invite you to participate in the Second International Congress on Religious Freedom and Conscience, which will take place on the 5th and 6th of June 2024 at the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations of Ramon Llull University. The Congress is organized by the Chair of Religious Freedom of Catalonia and will feature simultaneous panels in Catalan, Spanish and English.