International Seminars on Religion and Citizenship
European Humanities University (EHU) together with Mykolas Romeris University, Vytautas Magnus University, the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, and the Issa Institute invite you to attend an international seminar series on “Religion and Citizenship” starting on the 18th of March.
The “Religion and Citizenship” seminars are designed to bring experts and members of the public together to consider the interrelation of political, civic, and religious discourse in Central and Eastern European countries, and to discuss the historical, socio-cultural, theological, philosophical, and existential matters that influence the behavior of individual citizens as well as the preconditions for personal and institutional religious activity in a variety of public spheres.
The seminar workshops will take place twice a month. Each session will consist of a 15-minute recap of the previous meeting, a 30-minute lecture, and a 40-minute discussion. All seminars will be held in English.
The seminars are open to the public, free of charge, and no advance registration is necessary.
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MARCH 2015 PROGRAM
“Religious Conversion in Contemporary Kazakhstan: The Tension between Freedom of Conscious and National Security”
Date: Wednesday, March 18 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Julia Shapoval (Kazakhstan)
“I am an African with a British Passport: Negotiating Citizenship in a contested multicultural society”
Date: Wednesday, March 26 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Afe Adogame (New College, University of Edinburgh)
“Religious Diversity and Mainstream Media in Lithuania”
Date: Wednesday, April 15 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: PhD student Gintarė Pocė (Vytautas Magnus University)
“Anti-Catholicism in Lithuanian Culture”
Date: Thursday, April 30 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Irena Vaišvilaitė (Vilnius University)
“The Forgotten Concept of Sacrilege: Former Excess and Recent Indifference in Europe”
Date: Wednesday, May 6 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Andrius Sprindžiūnas (Mykolas Romeris University)
“Ideology, Faith and the Politics of Emancipation”
Date: Wednesday, May 13 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, DEMOS Institute)
“Environmental Communalism and Nature-based Spirituality in the Post-Soviet Region: Socio-cultural Alternatives of Anastasians”
Date: Wednesday, May 27 at 15.30
Location: Mykolas Romeris University Building II, Room 230, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius
Lecturer: Dr. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences/ Vytautas Magnus University)
The project “Religion and Citizeship” is a continuation of last year’s series “How Religion is Going Public in Eastern Europe” which became a thought-provoking experiment in rethinking the role of religion in the public space. You can read about last year’s seminars in the Newsletter of International Sociological Association Research Committee 22: (p.11-14).