Date: February 16, 2024Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmLocation: FAUTEUX Hall | FTX570 (57 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa)Countering hatred on the basis of religion or belief: The need for transformative responses from States and civil society Professor Nazila Ghanea, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, will share key findings from her […]

Date: December 8, 2023Time: 11:00 amLocation: Virtual - Zoom New Books on Secularism, Gender, Law and Politics: Nonreligion in Late Modern Societies (2022) In this webinar, co-hosted by the Secularism on the Move project and the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project, Anne Lancien, Anne-Laure Zwilling, and Helge Årsheim will discuss the recent book, Nonreligion […]

Date: December 18, 2023Time: 12:00 pmLocation: Virtual - Zoom NCF Student Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Research, with Ryan Cragun This workshop will address the logic behind quantitative approaches and the basis of survey research. This workshop is exclusively for members of the NCF student caucus. To register, contact Nathan Alexander (nalexand@uottawa.ca). 12pm ET

Date: January 16, 2024Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLocation: Virtual - ZoomWATCH HEREMeet the Author with Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch In this webinar, Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch will discuss their recent book, The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists (Bloomsbury, 2022). 12pm ET

Date: March 5, 2024Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmWATCH HEREMeet the Author with Nadia Beider In this webinar, Nadia Beider will discuss her recent article, "Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden," British Journal of Sociology (2022). 12pm ET

Date: October 25, 2023Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLocation: Virtual - ZoomWATCH HEREMeet the Author with Margit Warburg In this webinar, Margit Warburg will discuss her recent article, "Forest burials in Denmark: Nature, non-religion and spirituality," Approaching Religion 13, no. 1 (2023): 73–89. 12pm ET Margit Warburg is dr. phil. and Professor emerita of Sociology […]

Date: February 13, 2024Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLocation: Virtual - ZoomWATCH HERE Meet the Author with David Speed and Penny Edgell In this webinar, David Speed and Penny Edgell will discuss their recent article, “Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists,” Sociology of Religion (2023). 12pm ET Dr. David Speed is […]

Date: December 5, 2023Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLocation: Virtual - ZoomWATCH HERE Meet the Author with Sebastian Elsässer In this webinar, Sebastian Elsässer will discuss his recent article, "Arab Non-Believers and Freethinkers on YouTube: Re-Negotiating Intellectual and Social Boundaries," Religions 12, no. 2 (2021). 12pm ET Sebastian Elsässer has been assistant professor of Middle […]

Date: September 19, 2023Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLocation: Virtual - ZoomWATCH HERE NSRN Annual Lecture: Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun In this webinar, Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun discuss their recent book, Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society (NYU Press, 2023). (Co-hosted with the Nonreligion in a Complex […]

Date: June 14, 2023Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmLocation: University of Ottawa and VirtualNCF Reading Group Seminar with Camila Nicácio In this seminar, Camila Nicácio (Federal University of Minas Gerais) will lead a discussion about her recent chapter, "Law and Religion: A Comparative Approach to the Management of Religious Intolerance in Brazil and Canada." Please […]