5-8 January 2011. Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, “Core Educational Values: Guideposts for the Pursuit of Excellence in Challenging Times,” held in San Francisco
8 January 2011. Sixth Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and held in San Francisco
13 January 2011. International Symposium on “Religious Diversity and the European Workplace,” organized by the University of Leuven’s Institute for Migration Law and the Anthropology of Law under the umbrella of FP7 Religare, held at the Law Faculty of Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (Cole Durham participating)
14 January 2011. Religare Policy Meeting organized by the Center for European Policy Studies and hosted by Rik Torfs in the buildings of the Belgian Senate, followed by a Religare Consortium Meeting at CEPS (1, Place du Congres, Brussels).
26 January 2011. Canon Law and the Politics of Ecclesial Identity: The Patriarch of the West: contemporary Catholic & Orthodox perspectives, joint seminar of the Centre for Eastern Christianity and Heythrop College, Dr. Peter Petkoff, held at Heythrop College, University of London
28 January 2011. Conference on “Belonging, Families, and Family Law” at BYU Law School, organized by Professor Lynn Wardle, participation by ICLRS Associate Director Brett Scharffs
3-4 February 2011. Mainstreaming Diversity: Rewriting Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, conference organized by the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University and held in Strasbourg, France
9-10 February 2011. OSCE Expert workshops on the prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred, Vienna (Cole Durham participating)
18-19 February 2011. The 2011 Santa Clara Journal of International Law Symposium, “Religion and International Law,” hosted by Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, and the Center for Global Law & Policy and held at Santa Clara University (Brett Scharffs participating)
24-25 February 2011. Conference: Religion and the Legislative Regime for the New Dominican Republic, co-sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Catholic University of Santo Domingo, and El Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religioso, and held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Cole Durham and Gary Doxey participating)
3 March 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #1, “Current Developments in International Religious Freedom,” by Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr., held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
17-19 March 2011. “Equality, Freedom of Conscience, and the Common Good,” conference sponsored by Social Trends Institute, London, England (Cole Durham participating)
9-10 April 2011. Meeting of the Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Organization for Secutiry and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland (Cole Durham participating)
29 April – 4 May 2011. Annual Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Conference on “Universal Rights in a World of Diversity: The Case of Religious Freedom,” organized by Mary Ann Glendon, in Rome, Italy (Cole Durham participating)
April – June 2011. Cole Durham and Brett Scharffs teaching religious freedom and comparative law courses at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary
4 May 2011. Fribourg Conference on ECHR after Protocol 14: “The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14 – Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives,” University of Fribourg, Switzerland
4 May 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #2, “Islam and Human Rights: Europe and Beyond,” by Dr. David M. Kirkham, held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
6-7 May 2011. “Comparative Perspectives on the Emerging Nepal Constitution,” co-sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, co-organized by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies with the Nepal Bar Association, the Faculty of Law of Tribhuvan University, and the Koirala Foundation (Cole Durham and Brett Scarffs participating)
9-10 May 2011. “Religion and Governance in a Secular State,” co-sponsored by the International Center of Law and Religion Studies and and the Amity Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, held in New Delhi, India (Cole Durham, Brett Scharffs, and Marshall Morrise participating)
11-14 May 2011. International Congress on Constitutional Law, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Brett Scharffs participating with presentation entitled “Secularity or Secularism: Two Competing Visions for the Relationship between Religion and State in the New Turkish Constitution” Conference Program
18 May 2011. Symposium on the Occasion of Five Years of the Enactment and Implementation of the Law on Churches and Religious Communities, sponsored by the Ministry of Religion and Diaspora, Faculty of Law of Belgrade University, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Belgrade, Serbia, Cole Durham participating with paper titled “The Serbian Religion Law in International and Comparative Perspective”
19 May 2011. Conference on The Position of Churches and Religious Communities in Society, Theological Faculty, University of Belgrade, Cole Durham paper “Recent Developments in Religious Freedom Law”
20-21 May 2011. “Religious Freedom and Interfaith Dialogue: Global Dimensions and Local Actions,” conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, cosponsored by the Coordinating Council of CIS and Baltic States on Theoretical and Practical Religion Studies, the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, the Department of Religious Studies of the G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion, the Center for Religious Information and Freedom, the Ukrainian Religious Liberty Association, and the Institute of Religious Freedom, Cole Durham participating with paper “Resisting Erosion of Religious Freedom”
23-24 May 2011. Legislative Guidelines meeting of the Advisory Council of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Warsaw (Cole Durham participating)
26 May 2011. Cole Durham lecture on The Place of the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Constellation of Human Rights, in honor of Tore Lindholm, Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
26-27 May 2011. Cole Durham presenting “Do We Need the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” Seminar on Human Rights and Diversity, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
8 June 2011. “Perspectives on the European Court’s Italian Crucifix Decision,” held at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, cosponsored by Central European University Legal Studies Department, the International Association of Constitutional Law, and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU
10-11, 13-14 June 2011. The Institute for Human Rights and Democracy of the Universidad de Piura (Peru) third “Jornadas,” dedicated to religious liberty, in Lima and Piura, Peru
13-15 June 2011. Expert Conference on the Master-Level Course on Sharia & Human Rights: Background and Core Issues in Contemporary Indonesia, in cooperation with Pusat Studi Agama dan Multikulturalisme (PUSAM) Program Pascasarjana Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang; The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), Oslo Coalition, Norway; International Center for Law and Religion Studies – held in Indonesia (Brett Scharffs participating)
16-18 June 2011. Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, Religion and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia: The Third Gathering, Deepening the Conversation, co-sponsored by the Institute of Religious Studies of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Vietnam-U.S.A. Society, The Institute for Global Engagement, and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (Cole Durham and Brett Scharffs participating)
23 June 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #3, “History of Religious Liberty Perspectives,” by Professor Gary B. Doxey, held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
15-16 July 2011. “Legal Regulation of Religious Groups, Organisations and Communities,” conference hosted by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies and jointly organized with the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University, held at the University of Melbourne, Australia
17-30 July 2011. Second Summer Conference on Religion and the Rule of Law, held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China (Cole Durham and Brett Scharffs coordinating academic portion)
5-6 September 2011. International Academic Conferece, “Religion as a Social Institution,” organized by the Center for Religious Studies “ReligioPolis” (Moscow), the Department of Sociology and Administration of Social Processes, Academy of Labor and Social Relationsh (Moscow), the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah), the Department of Religion and Religious Studies, Philosophy Faculty (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), and the Coordinating Counsel for CIS and Baltic Countries on Theological and Practical Religious Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine), held in Moscow
6-7 September 2011. XI Coloquio del Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa, Santiago, Chile
8-10 September 2011. Second Congress of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) on “Constitution and Religion,” in Santiago, Chile
15 September 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #4, “Valuing Religion: Historical Tax Privileges of Churches in a Modern Secular Age” by Professor Robert T. Smith, held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
20 September 2011. Panel “Religion in Politics,” Utah Valley Interfaith Student Association, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah (Robert Smith participating)
22 September 2011. Presenatation by Robert T. Smith to the Salt Lake Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, “Render Unto Caesar That Which is Caesar’s: How an Erosion of Religious Freedom Could Jeopardize the Historical Tax Privileges of Churches,“ at Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City
28 September 2011. Leadership Conference J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Gary Doxey keynote speaker, Aspen Grove, Provo, Utah
2-4 October 2011. 18th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, “Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age: Trends, Challenges, and Practices,” sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, held at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
6-7 October 2011. Washington DC Colloqiuum on U.S. Religion Policy, Cole Durham and Bob Smith participating
7-9 October 2011. International Conference on Constitutional Law in Istanbul, Brett Scharffs participating with paper “France and the U.S.: Two Models and Mythologies of Separation of Religion and the State (Neither of Which Involves Separation)”
20 October 2011. Conference “Filling the Void: Meeting the Ethical Needs of Students,” Penn State Center for Ethics & Religious Affairs, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center – Eisenhower Chapel, Pennsylvania State University, Robert T. Smith participating with paper “Legal Ramifications of Religion on Campus”
24-25 October 2011. Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: “Religion,” Cole Durham paper “The Place of the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Constellation of Human Rights,” held in Oslo, Norway
27 October 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #5, “The Role of Judges in Determining the Meaning of Religious Symbols” by Professor Brett G. Scharffs, held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
1 December 2011. Religious Freedom Discussion Series Lecture #6, “Recent Legislative Trends Affecting Religious Freedom in Eastern Europe and Central Asia” by Professor Elizabeth A. Clark, held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
14-15 December 2011. “Interdisciplinary Conference on Sharing Sacred Space: Legal, Theological, and Sociological Perspectives,” co-organized by the Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, United States; International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, United States; and The John Paul II Center, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome, to be held in Rome, Italy