Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference Coming Soon – Latest Updates
From September 8 to 10, the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University will host the conference of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. The Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is co-organizing the event (as part of the APVV–22–0389 project Research on Religiosity, Spirituality, and Nonreligiosity among Roma in Slovakia).
Presenters from our institute will include director Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, who will also officially open the conference alongside Comenius University Vice-Rector Radomír Masaryk, as well as PhD candidate Iveta Štefanovičová and Juraj Majo. Together with Atko Remmel, president of the network from the University of Tartu in Estonia, they are among the main organizers.
This conference marks a unique milestone: since the network’s founding in 2008, it will be held for the first time in a post-socialist country, where the themes of nonreligion and secularism carry a distinct cultural context. A total of 37 participants have registered, with 28 attending in person. Most attendees come from Western European countries, the USA, and Canada.
The plenary lecture will take place on Tuesday morning, delivered by Dr. Eva Guigo – Patzelt from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her talk is titled Between godlessness and indifference: Nonreligion in Central and Eastern Europe, past and present.
More details about individual presentations and the schedule can be found in the abstract book HERE.
