2009 Conferences & Events
January 22-24 ICLARS Congress, Milan, Italy
February 2-3 Conference on Religion in Contemporary Society, Moscow, Russia
February 4-6 OSCE AC Meeting – Vienna
February 13-15 Nepal Conference on New Constitution
March 12-14 Civil Religion Conference at BYU
March 18 Villanova Comparative Law Workshop
April 9-20 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
April 20-22 International Symposium on Religious Freedom, Constitutionalism and Human Flourishing,
sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
April 28- May 2 IRLA Meeting, Santo Domingo
May 13-17 Conference on Christianity in the East: Religion and Harmony,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
May 23 IRLA Festival of Religious Freedom – Philippines
May 29-30 “Religious Autonomy” Conference, Budapest, Hungary
June 5-6 Southern Virginia University
June 7-9 Conference on “Family Law in a Multicultural Environment: Civil and Religious Law
in Family Matters,” Sponsored by the International Society for Family Law, Israel
June 12-14 András Sajó, Budapest Conference
June 10-14 CESNUR Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
July 18 Festival of Religious Freedom, Jerusalem
August 3-6 Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia
August 10-14 Human Rights Advocates Training, Indonesia
August 14-15 Australia Conference, Canberra Latin American Conference, Uruguay
September 1-3 IRLA Meeting of Experts – Silver Spring, Maryland
September 8-10 IRLA Congress on “The Role of the Government in Promoting Religious Liberty,”
sponsored by the International Religious Liberty Association, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
September 26-29 IRLA Congress on Religious Freedom – Colombia
October 3 IRLA Festival of Religious Freedom – Venezuela
October 4-6 16th International Law and Religion Symposium, sponsored by the International Center
for Law and Religion Studies at BYU, Provo, Utah
October 14-15 Conference on “Financing Churches and Religious Societies in the 21st Century,”
sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic Institute for State-
Church Relations, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
October 21-24 Volgograd Conference
October 24 IRLA Meeting of Experts – Djakarta
October 29-31 Conference “World Religions and their Influence on Legal Systems,” a meeting of
the International Congress of the Chamber of Lawyers, an initiative of the
Chamber of Lawyers of Frankfurt am Main, hosted by Legal-Profession.org,
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
November 12-13 “Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field,” conference sponsored by Seton Hall
University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey
November 13-14 Conference on “Religion, Ethics, and Peace: Honoring the Career of Professor
David Little,” co-sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School and Kroc Institute
for International Peace at Notre Dame, Cambridge, Massachusetts
November 20-22 Conference on “Religion and the Law in Southeast Asia,” co-sponsored by the
International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia and
the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 21 IRLA First World Festival of Religious Freedom – Lima, Peru
2010 Conferences & Events
February 11-12 JRCLS Annual Conference, Religious Freedom in the Middle East,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
February 26 Symposium on “The Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care: Legal and
Ethical Perspectives,” co-sponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Law School at
Brigham Young University, by the Ave Maria School of Law, and by University
Faculty for Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
March 30 Conference on “Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Problems in Law,”
sponsored by Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
April 22-25 68th MPSA Political Science Conference, Chicago, Illinois
June 4-5 The 18th Individual vs. the State Conference on “Religion in the Public Square,”
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
June 17-20 Conference on “Esotericism and Politics,” sponsored by The Association for the
Study of Esotericism, the Societas Magica, and JSR: Journal for the Study of
Radicalism, Michigan State University, East Lansing
July 25-31 International Association of Comparative Law Conference On Religion and
the Secular State/La réligion et l’État Laïque, Washington, D.C.