Religions of Europe:
Dynamics of Secularity, Moral and Ethical Discontents
June 14 - 18, 2021
Welcome to the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2021
An essential part of the MA in Euroculture, the IP is both a long-standing conference and celebration.
This year the programme is organised by the Uppsala University in Sweden and due to the current circumstances will be held entirely online.
Please make sure to keep tabs on all relevant organisational information and ongoing updates.
Religions of Europe
The IP aims at exploring and understanding the dynamic of religious life, coexistence, and lack thereof, in contemporary European societies by covering various elements of historical, political, social, cultural, and legal dimensions and their interplay with lived and imagined religion as they are presented by various communities and individuals.
SUB-THEME 1
Citizenship rights and religious freedoms
This subtheme explores questions related to the tensions between citizenship and religious rights in a spectrum of European legal and political contexts.
SUB-THEME 2
Civil society, media discourses and religious spaces
The subtheme explores religious spaces (associations, organizations, community and public spaces etc.) within a range of European civil societies.
SUB-THEME 3
Governance of religion between private choices and public policies
The subtheme is concerned primarily with a set of state and local governing strategies vis-à-vis religious communities, organizations and religion as a broader phenomenon in European contexts.
Keynote Speaker
Brian Palmer
A social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University in Sweden. Previously he held the Torgny Segerstedt Guest Professorship at Gothenburg University, and before that he taught at Harvard. His courses there on civic courage and engagement attracted as many as 600 students per term, and in 2002 Brian was awarded the Levenson Prize as Harvard’s best lecturer.
Like a singer in a geek rock band, he was not charismatic, he was anti-charismatic. Clearly, it was not the projected force of Palmer’s personality that made him a prominent figure at Harvard. It was instead the power of his ideas, the depth of his convictions, and his willingness to speak his mind that turned the lecturer into a nerd hero for hundreds of Harvard students.
— Richard Bradley, Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), p.306.
Schedule
MAY OPEN SESSIONS
Wednesday, May 5
10:00 – 11:00
Sub-theme 1
Dr Julia Martínez-Ariño, University of Groningen
11:00 – 12:00
Sub-theme 2
Dr Maria Klingenberg, Uppsala University
Friday, May 7
14:00 – 15:00
Sub-theme 3
Prof. Simon Fink, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
MONDAY, 14 JUNE
no later than 9:45
Connect via Zoom
9:50 – 10:00
Opening of IP
10:00 – 10:15
Warm up – a bit about you
10:15 – 10:45
Keynote speech
Dr Brian Palmer
10:45 – 11:00
Keynote Q&A
11:20 – 11:50
Presentation Sub-theme 1
Dr Julia Martínez-Ariño
13:00 – 14:00
After Euroculture: Careers
14:15 – 14:45
IP Practicalities
no later than 15:25
Connect via Zoom
15:30 – 17:00
IP Paper Panel Session I
TUESDAY, 15 JUNE
no later than 9:55
Connect via Zoom
10:00 – 11:30
IP Paper Panel Session II
no later than 14:55
Connect via Zoom
15:00 – 16:30
IP Paper Panel Session III
WEDNESDAY, 16 JUNE
no later than 9:55
Connect via Zoom
10:00 – 11:30
Individual feedback and grade from supervisors
no later than 12:55
Connect via Zoom
13:00 – 13:30
Presentation Sub-theme 2
Dr Maria Klingenberg
13:30 – 13:45
Peace Walk in Uppsala
13:45 – 15:45
Challenge (with break)
16:00 – 16:30
Presentation Sub-theme 3
Prof. Simon Fink
16:30 – 16:45
Warm-down: a little bit more on the theme
16:45 – 17:00
IP Closing
Dr Emin Poljarevic
Prof. Robert Wagenaar
Key Dates
- 9 April Abstract due. Students will submit their abstracts using the website “Upload Tool.”
- 10 May First draft of IP paper due. To be submitted to second-semester university tutors. Followed by feedback on the IP paperdraft, provided by the second-semester university tutors.
- 28 May Final IP paper due. To be submitted to the website through the Upload Tool.
- 4 June Group divisions, IP Papers and names of assigned discussants will be made available on the website.
- 13 June Upload presentation and peer review. (Work area)
- Monday, 14 June, Tuesday 15 June Student paper sessions
- Wednesday, 16 June Feedback session with individual students
Your virtual host
A virtual welcome to Uppsala!
We may not meet in person this time around, but we are still excited to meet you all online.
