Conferences

From R P R Portal

• The Henry Institute will sponsor the fifth biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics from April 23-25, 2009 at the Prince Conference Center on the Calvin College campus in Grand Rapids, MI

-- Registration forms are available on the Henry Institute website at http://www.calvin.edu/henry/schedule/symposium/sympregistrationform.pdf

-- In order to position the Symposium on a calendar year that alternates with numerous other opportunities for scholarship and presentation, the Symposium is being scheduled for 2009, though our most recent Symposium was held last spring, in 2008. After the upcoming April event, we will return to the biennial schedule.

• Social Research is sponsoring a conference titled "The Religious-Secular Divide: The US Case" on March 5 and 6, 2009 at The New School. Tickets are $50, but there are many discounts, including FREE for students.

-- Speakers include Charles Taylor, Jose Casanova, David Martin, Susan Harding, and Stephen Carter.

-- For more info: http://www.socres.org/religiousseculardivide/agenda.htm

• The Welfare and Values in Europe Conference, to be held in Uppsala, Sweden, has extended the deadline of its Call for Papers. The conference is 26-28 March, 2009. For more info, see http://www.akademikonferens.uu.se/wave09

• The British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Study Group announces its 2009 conference on Religion and Knowledge. This will be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in Durham. For more info see http://www.socrel.org.uk/conferences/Durham2009/index.html