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"Faith, Citizenship and Globalisation:
Religion and the Citizen as Categories in a World of Becoming"
Durham University, 19-20 May 2011

This one-day conference will explore the relationship between religion and citizenship within our contemporary "world of becoming", as our guest speaker William E. Connolly has termed it. Instead of assuming we know what religion and citizenship are, we will treat them as categories that have long been and still are becoming, through processes that are intertwined with a myriad of other processes, including those of empire past and present, nation-state formation and deformation, and mutating forms of capitalism, but which have become and are becoming in creative tension with each other. The conference is co-sponsored by the Faith and Globalisation Programme (Durham University), the Ideology and Discourse Analysis Programme (University of Essex) and the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (University of Aberdeen).
Keynote speaker: William E. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University), author of 'Why I am Not a Secularist' (1999), 'Christianity and Capitalism, American Style' (2005) and 'A World of Becoming' (2011).

Conference Schedule

19 May 2011 (Kennelworthy Hall, St Mary's College)
14.00 - Opening
14.15 - Keynote Speech (William E. Connolly)
16.00 - Coffee Break
16.30 - Panel: "Religion, Citizenship, and Agonistic Pluralism"
Joanildo Burity (Durham University), Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen), David Howarth (Essex University)

20 May 2011 (Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan's College)
9.00 - Short papers session (up to three simultaneous panels)
10.30 - Coffee break
11.00 - Roundtable on William Connolly's pluralist approach to religion and globalisation 
Mathew Guest (Durham University), Jeremy Carrette (University of Kent), Aletta Norval (Essex University), Chris Brittain (University of Aberdeen), and William Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)
13.00 - Lunch and departures

Paper proposals are welcome for short papers on the following themes:
*	Religion and contemporary citizenship
*	Globalisation, religious activism and pluralism
*	Religion in conflict resolution
*	Religion, political alliances and the nation state
*	Global citizenship
*	Religion, agonism and social movements
*	Pluralism and the politics of religion(s)
The deadline for submission is 29 April 2011. For more information on the conference theme and how to submit a proposal, please see the attached document.

Conference registration/attendance
There is no fee for conference attendance, but all participants are required to register by email to secure a place in the audience before 19 May 2011.


Dr Mathew J Guest
Senior Lecturer in Theology & Religion
Durham University
Abbey House
Palace Green
Durham
DH1 3RS
tel: (0191) 334 3944
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