Category Archives: Call for Papers

Notice from the Chair:

The 10th Annual Patuxent Forum will be held at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland on April 22, 2015. The Center for the Study of Democracy and The Patuxent Partnership jointly present this forum, which includes a mix of international representatives, policymakers, academics, government officials, and other interested parties.

We are soliciting paper proposals for our 2015 topic: “Religion in Civil Society: Lessons from Policies Past and Present.”  Discussion of these issues is particularly fitting at St. Mary's City, the site of Maryland's first capital, settled by Catholics. Considering this legacy, the forum will contemplate precedents and current policies.

Proposed Conference Topics: 1)   How have past policies shaped religious tensions today in specific nations? 2)   What is the role of religious plurality in modern democracy? 3)   How and when should Western nations (1) engage, and (2) provide humanitarian assistance to religious groups? 

Paper proposals should be emailed to Adrienne Dozier, Program Assistant, Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, at  adozier@smcm.edu, and should include a title, institutional affiliation, and short abstract of no more than 150 words. Proposals are due by February 9, 2015. Travel and lodging accommodations will be provided for panelists.

On January 30, 2015, the Political Science Department at Rollins College is sponsoring a one-day conference: Contemporary Perspectives on Politics and Religion. We plan a morning roundtable and afternoon panels for papers.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Donald L. Davison (ddavison@rollins.edu)
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
1000 Holt Ave
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL  32789
407-646-2158

A call for papers for an international conference in Rome at John Cabot University – May 22-23, 2014. The conference will take place during a new Graduate-level studies Summer Institute on Religion and Global Politics.

From the conference website:

Although the study of religion and politics has blossomed over the past decade, the normative debates over the appropriate place of religion in modern democracies often remain divorced from the study of the actual practices and meanings of religion in these democracies. Consequently, many new normative concepts and arguments have not filtered down to the empirical study of religion, while normative debates are often inadequately informed by the empirical realities of contemporary religious practices and beliefs.

Rethinking Political Catholicism aims to bridge this divide by focusing on the fertile case of political Catholicism in Italy. Empirically, the conference aims to take stock of political Catholicism in Italy today, compare it with Catholic and Muslim politics elsewhere, and use contemporary theoretical and normative insights to better understand its post-secular dynamics. Normatively, the conference aims to evaluate the practices of contemporary political Catholicism in Italy and elsewhere, and thus contribute to developing a more sophisticated debate about the proper roles of religious politics in contemporary democracies.

Read the full description here. 

The call for papers comes from:

Michael D. Driessen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
John Cabot University
Via della Lungara, 233
00165 Rome, Italy