THURSDAY OCTOBER 24, 2019 - Bill 21 & Quebec Society: Political Authority, Extremism & Religious Invisibility
W.Y. Alice Chan, Director & Co-Founder of the Centre for Civic & Religious Literacy (CCRL) Hate to Tolerance from Young to Old: A Look at Religious Bullying and Law 21
Víctor Muñiz-Fraticelli, Faculty of Law & Department of Political Science, McGill University Laïcité as Nation-Building: Loi 21 and the Suppression of Competing Loyalties
~Moderator: Dr. André Gagné
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30, 2019 - Christianity & Far-Right Extremism
Dr. André Gagné, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University Conquering for Jesus: The Christian Right's Socio-Political Project
Dr. Martin Geoffroy, CÉGEP Édouard-Montpetit, Director of CEFIR Religious Discourses and the Far-Right in Québec: from Catholic Integrism to Cultural Appropriation
~Moderator: Dr. Daniel M. Cere
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2019 - Anti-Semitism, the Law,Religious Visibility & Hate Speech
Dr. Shauna Van Praagh, Faculty of Law, McGill University (In)Visibility Matters
Rabbi Adam Scheier, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim TBA
~Moderator: Lauren V. Steinman
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2019 - Immigration, Minority Rights, & Religious Freedom in the United States & Canada
Dr. Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School Travel Bans, Mormon and Muslim: Trump v. Hawaii and the 19th-century Attack on Latter-Day Saint Immigration
Dr. Morton Weinfeld, Department of Sociology, McGill University Suspect Minorities in Canada: Past & Present