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A new SCIS project on gender justice in Muslim associations in Switzerland

Launched in May 2026, the project “Gender Justice as a Resource for the Participation of Muslims in Switzerland” aims to study gender relations within Muslim associations in Switzerland. It is l...
14/05/26

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Conflicts of Knowledge: Four Pluriel Researchers at the 93rd Acfas Congress (Trois-Rivières, 14 May 2026)

Trois-Rivières, Canada, 14 May 2026. Four Pluriel member researchers will take part in the symposium “Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narrativities”, held within the 93rd Cong...
to 14/05/26 to 15/05/26

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Conflicts of knowledge: the Arab world in academic narrativities

Update, April 2026: the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. The final symposium programme is now available: see the programme announcement and Pluriel researchers’ contributions. Call for pape...
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Amir Dziri: “Over the past decade, the Swiss Center for Islam and Society has strengthened its academic standing”

Fribourg, Switzerland. To mark the Swiss Center for Islam and Society’s tenth anniversary, its co-director Amir Dziri gave an interview to Pluriel.
07/05/25

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Webinar. An Anglican Perspective on Interfaith Marriages in England

As part of the Kircher Online Lectures, a public webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 7th at 4 PM (Central European Time). Entitled “Intimate Diversity: An Anglican perspective on interfaith marriage ...
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in the Muslim World?

Interview. Saudi researcher Abdulrahman Khalid AlKhunayfir, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo, traces his intellectual journey that led him to study the history o...
04/11/24

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Webinar “Religions and Public Order: Challenges of Pluralism and Constitutional Identity”

“Public Order of Religions” is the title of the seminar scheduled for Monday 4 November from 2:30 to 4:30 pm at the University of Insubria, in Como (Via Sant’Abbondio 12). The event is org...
17/10/24

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Montreal: “Books in Christian and Muslim Religious Bookstores between Lyon and Montreal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of the Offer”

As part of the Jacques Cartier Dialogues 2024 at the University of Montreal, several researchers who are members of Pluriel will participate in a study day on October 17, 2024, focusing on books in Christia...
to 15/07/25 to 23/07/25

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Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”

As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...
07/05/24

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Webinar “The Muslim Difference” with Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College, United States)

“ May 7, 2024 at 4 pm (UTC+1). Presentation and discussion about the book “”The Muslim Difference. Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present”...
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Emmanuel Pisani: “The thought of al-Ghazali provides a basis for freedom of conscience”

Interview. On the occasion of the publication of his thesis about Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, which won the Mohamed Arkoun Prize in 2016, Emmanuel Pisani, director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies i...
to 18/03/22 to 19/03/22

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“Religions and Nationalisms” — ISTR Symposium

The Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR) of the Institut catholique de Paris is organising a symposium to understand and analyse the rise of “religious nationalism”. Born in Eur...
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‘Islamophobia’ in Spain ?

The Bridge Initiative is a project led by Georgetown University that focuses on the problem of ‘Islamophobia’ in the world. Its ‘Islamophobia Resource Center’ (IRC) is a tool for academics and researchers, ...
DEADLINE : 01/11/21

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[Postponed] IFCU Symposium / Preparing for the COVID-19 World

Postponed to an unspecified date Symposium organized by the International federation of catholic Universities.–> Postponed to an unspecified date. The covid 19 pandemic has been a major crisis of w...
16/12/20

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Webinar : Religions and secularism: the challenge of intransigence

Wednesday December 16th, 6.30PM (online) In a context marked by extremism, radicalism, separatism and communitarianism, French society is experiencing an intensification of identity-based and militant withd...