Republicanism and Secularism

The annual CONCEPT (The Nottingham Centre for Normative Political Theory) conference will be held on 15-16 December 2014 in Highfield House, University Park, Nottingham. The conference is titled ‘Republicanism and Secularism’ and the keynote speaker is Cécile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory at University College London. 

Admission is free, but please register your attendance for catering purposes to [email protected] by Monday 8 December. 

Cécile Laborde is professor of Political Theory and Director of the Religion and Political Theory Centre at University College London. The Centre houses ‘Is Religion Special? Secularism and Religion in Contemporary Legal and Political Theory’, a 5 year project funded by the European Research Council (2012-2017). Cécile has published four books including: Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy, with Oxford University Press (2008). She has also written articles in major journals of political science and political theory, and is currently writing a book about the liberal concept of religion for Harvard University Press. 

Other confirmed speakers: Matteo Bonotti (Queen's University Belfast), Naël Desaldeleer (Université de Poitiers), Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris1), Ros Hague (Nottingham Trent University), Gulshan Khan (The University of Nottingham), Sune Laegaard (Roskilde University), Ronan McCrea (University College London), Tariq Modood (University of Bristol), Fabian Schuppert (Queen's University Belfast), Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway), Mark Wenman (The University of Nottingham).

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