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Human Dignity Panel at the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Co-sponsor with Mexican Senate and Mexican Office of Religious Affairs

ICLRS Founding Director Cole Durham will lecture at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Associate Director Elizabeth Clark will participate in a panel at the University of Pennsylvania Law School to discuss religious liberty challenges. The panel is part of Interfaith Philadelphia's year-long civil dialogue series, A Year of Civil Conversations, and will take place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Ruth Renlund, Speaker

Amity University International School, Abu Dhabi

Associate Director Gary Doxey will speak during the National Day of Prayer.

7th ACLARS Annual Conference, Gaborone, Botswana

                  To watch video of the event or learn more about the event, please visit religiousfreedom.byu.edu or this link.

Associate Director Gary Doxey will speak during the 49th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States held in Colombia.

The course on Religion and Human Rights will be held at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogayakarta, Indonesia.

The Conference on Indigenous Religions will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia.

ICLRS Director Brett Scharffs will teach a course on law and religion at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, China.

The 2019 Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Summit on Religious Liberty will take place in Laguna Niguel, California.

The Religion and Rule of Law Certificate Training Program will take place in Beijing, China.

The New Religions Movements conference will take place in Beijing, China.

  To watch the recorded event or to learn more, click on this link.

Professor Cole Durham participated on a panel titled, 'Combating Discrimination Against Muslims, Christians, and Members of Other Religions and Beliefs' at the Second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.  The event was also attended by Gary Doxey, Brett Scharffs, David Colton, and Senior Fellows Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg and Neil A. Lindberg. To learn more about the […]

2019 Young Scholars with faculty                                         A 3-week training course for international faculty, graduate students, and government officials with the goals of: · Learning to teach a course in Law and Religion · Participating in writing […]

The event will take place in London, England.

HUMAN DIGNITY FROM JUDGES’ PERSPECTIVES
July 24-25, 2019
Pembroke College, Oxford

This conference, held 30-31 of July 2019, will launch the Human Dignity in Religious Traditions (HDRT) Project. A group of 8 scholars from different religious traditions will meet at Christ Church, Oxford to begin a conversation that maps the initial points of convergence and divergence on human dignity among the world’s religions; and to set […]

The third International Forum on Law and Religion (IFLR) will take place in Taguig City, Philippines.

The roundtable discussion will be held at Oxford, United Kingdom.

This conference will focus on the contemporary phenomenon of religious persecution, with a particular emphasis on better understanding how to diagnosis the causes of religious persecution in the world today, to reflect upon the diagnoses of how the persecution phenomena can be ameliorated, and what the treatments are to help address crises of persecution, and […]

                  Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. participated in the WACLARS conference held 7-10 August 2019. More detail on the event can be found at this link.

Elizabeth Clark and Matthew K. Richards speak on 'Challenges to Religious Freedom: What’s on the Horizon? What Are the Priorities?' as part of the Understanding Religious Freedoms section of BYU Education Week.

Professor Brett Scharffs presents on the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity to BYU Law students

The conference, held in Beijing, China, will be hosted by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Religious Society.

Brett Scharffs will give a lecture at the Fudan University Center for the Study of Mormonism and Sino-US Relations in Shanghai, China.

The event will take place in Bangalore, India.