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Report from Europe - I (Video)
10:05 AM to 11:35 AM
Chair, Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière, University of Portsmouth
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Louis-Léon Christians, U.C. Louvain, “Religion and Covid-10 in Belgian Law” (Video)
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Ganoune Diop, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, “The First Human Right During Time of Pandemic: Exploring the Moral Foundation for Human Solidarity” (Video)
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Alejandro González-Varas Ibanez, the University of Zaragoza (Spain) School of Law, “Law, Religion, and Coronavirus between the United States and the European Union”(Video)
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Jean-François Mayer, Institut Religioscope, Fribourg , “How essential? Meanings and perceptions of religion during the Covid-19 pandemic” (Video, PDF)
Report from North America - I (Video)
12 noon to
1:30 PM
Chair, Nicholas P. Miller, International Religious Liberty Institute, Andrews University
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Kathleen Brady, Emory University, “COVID-19 and Restrictions on Religious Institutions: Constitutional Implications”(Video, PDF)
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Caroline Mala Corbin, University of Miami School of Law, “Religious Liberty in a Pandemic: Constitutional Challenges to Mass Gathering Bans”(Video)
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Andrew Lewis & Daniel Bennett, University of Cincinnati & John Brown University, “Church Closures, Religious Freedom, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Assessing the Christian Legal Movement’s Response” (Video, PDF)
Christopher Lund, Wayne State University Law School, “Quarantines, Religious Groups, and Questions of Equality” (Video, PDF)
Report from Europe - II (Video)
10 AM to
11:30 AM
Chair, Rosa Maria Martinez de Codes, University Complutense of Madrid
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Ibrahim Salama & Michael Wiener, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Right, “Responding to pandemics: peer-to-peer learning with the #Faith4Rights toolkit” (Salama Video, Wiener Video, PDF)
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Alessandro Ferrari, University of Insubria, “Covid-19 & religious freedom in Italy; the resilience of the ‘exceptional right’" (Video Part 1, Video Part 2)
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Blandine Chelini-Pont, Aix-Marseille Université, “From soft to angry attitudes against the temporary suspensions of public worship in France” (Video)
Report from North America - II (Video)
12 noon to
1:30 pm
Chair, Brett Scharffs, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
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W Cole Durham Jr., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, “Coronavirus, the Compelling State Interest in Health, and Religious Autonomy” (Video)
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Jeffrey Hammond & Michael DeBoer, Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, “Conflicts between Religious liberty and the New Public Health” (Video, PDF)
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Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan, “When the State Tells You How to Run Your Church Service: Analyzing coronavirus Guidance Documents on Religious Services” (Video)
Closing Discussion of Future Follow Up Project on Pandemic and Religious Freedom (Video)
1:30 PM to
2:15 PM
Conference Organizers – Nicholas Miller, Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière, Rosa Maria Martinez de Codes, Brett Scharffs, Cole Durham.