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Oct
7
2025

Color-blind Secularisms in Contemporary France and Québec

When: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT

Where: Kresge Hall, 1515, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Graduate Students

Contact: Religious Studies Department   (847) 491-3611

Group: Religious Studies Department

Category: Academic

Description:

Guest Lecture with Prof. Jennifer Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Description: Drawing on thinking from Secular Sensibilities (UNC Press, 2025), Jennifer Selby (Memorial University of Newfoundland) considers the category of “religion” amidst contemporary French and Québec, Canada governments’ decidedly color-blind legislation and policies on secularism. She does so alongside longstanding ethnographic fieldwork that explores how these sensibilities are articulated among and upon individuals of Algerian origin living in a suburb of Paris and in Montréal, Québec. 

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