Programme Trinity Term 2024
Wed 4pm-6pm
Collier Room Regent’s Park College Oxford
Trinity Term
1 May (Week 2 TT)
Prof Cecile Laborde – Indirect discrimination, Secular law and Christians
8 May (Week 3 TT)
Prof Nazila Ghanea and Sir Malcolm Evans – Round Table: Overlapping Aspects of Freedom of Religion or Belief and Prevention of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment – UN Special Procedures Consultations (By invitation only, please contact daniel.cloney@law.ox.ac.uk should you wish to register)
Colloquia
3 – 4 June (Week 7 TT)
Religion, Freedom, Equality: Transatlantic Conference
Organisers: Paul Billingham (Oxford), Cécile Laborde (Oxford), Larry Sager (Texas)
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford
Bringing together leading experts from politics, philosophy, and law from both the USA and Europe, this conference will explore a range of pressing normative issues regarding the interactions between religion, politics, and law. The conference follows on from highly successful predecessors held in 2022 and 2023.
Places are limited, so please register if you wish to attend, by completing the form here: https://forms.gle/7PefvNK85veuZzob8.
Speakers: Rebecca Aviel (Denver), Stephanie Barclay (Notre Dame), Francois Boucher (KU Leuven), Maria Cahill (Cork), Chris Eberle (US Naval Academy), Valentina Gentile (LUISS Guido Carli), Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL), Alex Livingston (Cornell), Tariq Modood (Bristol), James Nelson (Houston), Jim Oleske (Lewis & Clarke), Julian Rivers (Bristol), Isabelle Rorive (Brussels), Larry Sager (Texas), Nomi Stolzenberg (USC), Simon Thompson (UWE), Nelson Tebbe (Cornell), Sabine Tsuruda (Queen’s), Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green), Marietta van der Tol (Oxford), Baldwin Wong (Hong Kong Baptist)
Any queries should be directed to the conference assistant, Jacob Williams (jacob.williams@gtc.ox.ac.uk)
6 & 7 June 2024 (Week 7 TT)
Public Lecture and Workshop
All the Kingdoms of the World, Integralism, and Religious Attitudes Toward Liberalism
Organisers: Paul Billingham (Oxford) and Joshua Hordern (Oxford)
Lecture
“Is the New Catholic Integralism True or False?”
Kevin Vallier (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University)
5:30pm, 6th June, Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre, Christ Church
Workshop
9:15am-5:15pm, Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College
Speakers: Jonathan Chaplin (Theology, Cambridge), Rachel Gambee (Theology, Oxford), Joseph Kaminski (Politics, International University of Sarajevo), Joshua Hordern (Theology, Oxford), Joan Lockwood O’Donovan (Theology, St Andrews), Thomas Pink (Philosophy, KCL), Kevin Vallier (Philosophy, Bowling Green), Baldwin Wong (Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist)
Registration
Spaces are limited at the workshop, so if you would like to attend them please register using the form here: https://forms.gle/Y6u2X9Zm5KY7CNSt5.
While the events are connected, you are welcome to attend the lecture even if you do not register for the workshop (and vice versa).
Further information
This lecture and workshop will explore the arguments and themes of Kevin Vallier’s new book All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (OUP, 2023). The book examines religious anti-liberalism, particularly Catholic integralism, philosophically, theologically, historically, and economically.
Vallier’s lecture will introduce some of the central ideas and arguments of the book, with a response from Tom Simpson (Oxford) followed by Q&A.
The workshop will feature papers from theologians, philosophers, and political theorists with a range of attitudes toward liberalism and integralism. Some papers will focus on a critical evaluation of Vallier’s arguments and positions. Others will use Vallier’s book as a launchpad for discussing the wider themes of the relation between church and state, Christian attitudes toward liberalism, the role of religion within politics, and anti- or non-liberal alternatives to the prevailing order. In other words, through engagement with Vallier’s book, the workshop will facilitate progress in the broader debates to which it contributes.