Onderzoek naar seculariteit en samenleving. De eerste SSAB-dag
Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 vond de eerste SSAB-dag plaats in het Vrijzinnig Centrum De Schakel in Mechelen. De dag begon met een planningsvergadering voor onderzoek, waarbij ook erfgoedpartners Liberas en CAVA hun (onderzoeks)plannen voor de beleidsperiode 2024-2028 uiteenzetten.
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Transnational Scholars : Research Mobility and Knowledge Production in Religious Studies
On 8th December, our colleagues from the CIERL at the Université Libre De Bruxelles organise a workshop on the challenges we face as scholars of religious and secular studies when our research set up contains transnational perspectives. Two of our members will participate in this free event.
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FWO scholarship granted to Niels De Nutte
Our member Niels De Nutte was recently granted a special PhD scholarship by the FWO (National Research Foundation). This full-time grant allows Niels to finish his PhD work as part of our research group from November 2023 untill the end of October 2024. Congratulations!
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succesful PhD defense Sofia Nikitaki
We are happy to announce that SSAB member Sofia Nikitaki (KU Leuven Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies) has successfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday, 3rd July 2023, in Auditorium Wolfspoort in Leuven.
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Retirement as prof dr emeritus of Johan Stuy
Last Friday, the colleagues of ETHU organised an event to celebrate the retirement as emeritus of our member Johan Stuy. Memories and appeciation of his longstanding carreer as an ethicist at our university were shared amicably!
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The Dispersed Heritage of Belgian secular Periodicals (1850-1940) - project launch
During the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023, MA History student Nyala Nauwelaers is assisting some members of our research group with the retrieval of the whereabouts of the Belgian freethinker periodicals in the various archival institutions across Belgium.
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De deugdzame stad: een filosofische verkenning
Aboe Nasr al‑Farabi (870‑950) is een van de grootste filosofen uit de geschiedenis en naast Averroës en Avicenna een van de meest representatieve denkers uit het Gouden Tijdperk van de islam.
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Eutopia incoming mobility: Anton Jansson
Dr. Anton Jansson of University of Gothenburg, co-director of the ISHASH network, was connected to SSAB as a guest researcher and visited our group in Brussels.
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Conference participation: Secular States Struggling with Religious Freedom
Last week the Institute for the Study of Freedom of Religion or Belief at ETF Leuven organised an interdisciplary conference in Leuven entitled 'Secular States Struggling with Religious Freedom'. This event saw a thought-provoking opening keynote by prof.
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Publication alert: Waarom dit niet de laatste oorlog is. Over de psychologie van internationale conflicten
Our member Koert Debeuf recently published a monograph on the psychology of international conflicts. Dr. Debeuf uses his years of expertise in the geopolitical field and his personal experiences to show that war is not fought for economic, but for psychological reasons.
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Verslag: ‘The non-religious and the State’. De keuzes en strategieën van niet-gelovigen en buitenkerkelijken vandaag en gisteren
gelovigen en buitenkerkelijken vandaag en gisteren Dit verslag verscheen origineel op de website van Liberas en werd door Christoph De Spiegeleer geschreven. Onderstaand is een licht aangepaste versie.
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