Announcements

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.

Join the SSSR on Monday, March 18, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for a webinar on Religious Freedom to explore what religious freedom means to both dominant and subordinate religious groups. Moderated by Eric L. McDaniel, Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, the panel will feature Nazita Lajevardi, Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, Jason Klocek, School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, and Gary Adler, Department of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State University. The panel will highlight the current debates and research about religious freedom. The webinar is free of charge. Just send an email to office@sssreligion.org by Friday, March 15, 2024 with "Religious Freedom Webinar" in the subject line, and you will be emailed the webinar link.