{"id":188,"date":"2017-05-02T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-understandingunbelief\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:31:04","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past events"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"breadcrumb \"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/\" rel=\"index\">Home<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\" rel=\"up\">Past Events<\/a><\/nav>\n<h2>2019<\/h2>\n<h4>17 June 2019<\/h4>\n<h4>Religious Unbelief in Life Story Interviews<\/h4>\n<p>Oral historian Dr Paul Merchant talked about his Understanding Unbelief project at the British Library, exploring the nature and diversity of unbelief and tips and tools for finding very particular material in large collections of audio archives.<\/p>\n<h4>28-30 May 2019<\/h4>\n<h4>Cultures of Unbelief<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_5745\" style=\"width: 4042px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\/img_1985-credit-ll\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5745\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5745\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2019\/06\/IMG_1985-Credit-LL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2019\/06\/IMG_1985-Credit-LL.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2019\/06\/IMG_1985-Credit-LL-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2019\/06\/IMG_1985-Credit-LL-768x175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2019\/06\/IMG_1985-Credit-LL-1024x233.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition &#8216;The Unbelievers&#8217; by Aubrey Wade at the Gregorian University Rome installed for the Cultures of Unbelief conference. Photo credit Lois Lee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the global population of religious \u2018unbelievers\u2019 continues to grow, the Cultures of Unbelief conference brings together leading academics, leaders of religious and nonreligious groups, journalists, educators and many others to understand what it really means to be a religious \u2018unbeliever\u2019. Cultures of Unbelief will explore how \u2018unbelievers\u2019 engage with religion, their diverse existential, metaphysical and moral beliefs, and prospects for dialogue and collaboration between believers and unbelievers.<\/p>\n<p>Cultures of Unbelief also marks three significant anniversaries in the academic study of \u2018unbelief\u2019: the 50th anniversary of the Vatican\u2019s pioneering \u2018Culture of Unbelief\u2019 conference in 1969; the 10th anniversary of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network\u2019s (NSRN) 1st conference (Oxford University, 2009); and, the work of the landmark $3m research programme, Understanding Unbelief, funded by the John Templeton Foundation (University of Kent, 2017-20).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/current-events\/cultures-of-unbelief\/\">Draft programme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk\/Register\/Registration\/Welcome.aspx?e=54AB6564250778CC1E3DC371DCE2F77F\"><strong>Register<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>***<\/h4>\n<h4>20 May 2019<\/h4>\n<h4>Belief and unbelief: Supporting communities in times of national tragedy<\/h4>\n<p>As the country\u2019s religious composition continues to shift what shape should support take when religious rituals are not relevant to more than 50% of the population? In addition, what do these changes mean for policy makers, media and communities when providing support in times of crisis?<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between NatCen and the Understanding Unbelief programme this half-day symposium will explore the UKs changing religious composition and deliberate moral leadership in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/national-tragedy-and-unbelievers-supporting-the-nonreligious-in-times-of-crisis-tickets-40845025571\">More information<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<h4>15 May 2019<\/h4>\n<h4>Reaching for a new sense of connection? The diversity of nonreligion in Europe<\/h4>\n<p>In this public lecture at Kingston University London, Professor David Herbert and Dr Josh Bullock reflect on their Understanding Unbelief project which has examined the nature and diversity of unbelief, practice and social connections among nonreligious Millennials in six European countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingston.ac.uk\/events\/item\/3345\/15-may-2019-reaching-for-a-new-sense-of-connection-the-diversity-of-nonreligion-in-europe\/\"><strong>More information<\/strong> \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>***<\/h4>\n<h4>Exploring Belief<\/h4>\n<h5>30 April, London<\/h5>\n<p>At the 2nd annual Religion in the Media festival in London Understanding Unbelief researchers and collaborators Drs Lois Lee and Rachael Shillitoe and will lead a session on the mainstage on the work of the programme<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw3.org.uk\/event\/exploring-belief-2019?pid=43435#.XNl46HdFzN9\">Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2018<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4941\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\/natcen-nov-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4941\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4941\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/12\/NatCen-Nov-18.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) NatCen<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>How should Religious Education respond to a changing religious<\/h4>\n<h4>landscape?<\/h4>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>29 November, NatCen Social Research, London<\/h5>\n<p>Dr Lois Lee joined <span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #171717;cursor: text;font-family: 'ArialLight','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Rudolf Lockhart (CEO of the Religious Education Council for England and Wales), Andrew Copson (Chief Executive of Humanists UK)<\/span> for a discussion about adapting the syllabuses and practices of Religious Education in Britain to a transforming religious and non-religious landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"p\">2017<\/h2>\n<h4>A Nation of Unbelievers?<\/h4>\n<h4>5 December 2017, 6:30-8:00 NatCen Head Office, London.<\/h4>\n<p>Dr Lois Lee was invited to NatCen to discuss whether the nonreligious really are the UK&#8217;s &#8216;religious&#8217; majority &#8211; and what this means for society.\u00a0In September, findings about the nonreligious from NatCen&#8217;s British Social Attitudes Survey hit the headlines. The data showed that people not affiliating with a religion are now a majority in the UK, and a very large outright majority in the younger age cohorts. In this talk, Dr Lois Lee \u2013 a sociologist specialising in the study of nonreligion and atheism \u2013 considers what these figures tell us about the British religious landscape. Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcen.ac.uk\/events\/upcoming-events\/2017\/december\/a-nation-of-unbelievers\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/sample-page\/the-2017-nsrn-public-lecture\/\">The NSRN Public Lecture: Ancestor Worship Amongst Today\u2019s Unbelievers<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>25 November 2017, 15:45-17:00<\/h4>\n<h4>The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury CT1 2RA<\/h4>\n<p>Non-religious people often experience, and revere, the presence of their deceased relatives. Unfortunately, such experiences usually fall into an academic category called \u2018religious experience\u2019, demonstrating how badly misunderstood are today\u2019s unbelievers. In this year&#8217;s NSRN public lecture Professor Abby Day from Goldsmiths, University of London will discuss current research with UK unbelieving ancestor-worshippers and offer cross-cultural comparisons to ask \u2013 how can we learn from their experiences to inform us about unbelief, nonreligion and the richness of human experience?<\/p>\n<p>Find out more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/sample-page\/the-2017-nsrn-public-lecture\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/sample-page\/lost-and-found-belief-the-unbelief-cafe\/\">Belief, Lost and Found: The Unbelief Caf\u00e9<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>25 N<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\/imag2835\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4313 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2835-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2835-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2835-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2835-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2835.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ovember 2017, 13:00-15:30<\/h4>\n<h4>The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury CT1 2RA<\/h4>\n<p>The place of religion in British people\u2019s lives is changing\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and changing fast. Around half of the population say they have no religion , whilst many others are now exploring religious, spiritual and existential questions outside of traditional religious settings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/events\/past-events\/imag2812\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4333 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2812-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2812-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2812-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2812-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/01\/IMAG2812.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If religious belief is not disappearing per se, it is certainly transforming\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and to understand it we need to consider not only what beliefs are being lost, but also what new beliefs people are finding through these dramatic processes of change.\u00a0We welcome you to the Unbelief Caf\u00e9 for an afternoon of talks and activities exploring what it means to be an unorthodox believer\u00a0or \u2018unbeliever\u2019 in the modern world. Participants have the chance to share and discuss their own beliefs, and to\u00a0learn more about belief and unbelief\u00a0from leading experts in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Unbelief Caf\u00e9 was held as part of the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/\">Being Human Festival <\/a>17-25 November 2017. Being Human is led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.ac.uk\/\">School of Advanced Study, University of London <\/a>in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/\">the Arts and Humanities Research Council <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/\">British Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Belief and Beyond Belief Festival, Southbank Centre, London: Meaning for Atheists: What do Atheists Believe?<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #171717;cursor: text;font-family: 'ArialLight','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Sunday, 22 January 2017,\u00a0 Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A panel of writers, atheists and religious leaders discuss the origins and<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3327\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3327\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3327\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/04\/Southbank-TED-HODGKINSON-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/04\/Southbank-TED-HODGKINSON-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/04\/Southbank-TED-HODGKINSON-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/04\/Southbank-TED-HODGKINSON-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/04\/Southbank-TED-HODGKINSON.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(C) Ted Hodgkinson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>underpinnings of atheism, including Nick Spencer, Director of Research at Theos Think Tank and author of a number of books, includeing <em>Atheists: The Origin of the Species<\/em>; Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at Kent and co-editor of <em>Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide<\/em>; and Lois Lee, who is Research Fellow at the University of Kent and leads the Understanding Unbelief research programme. Her books include <em>Recognising the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular<\/em> and <em>The Oxford Dictionary of Atheism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3330\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3330\" class=\" wp-image-3330\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/05\/2017-01-22-13.34.00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(C) Lois Le<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This event was held as part of the Southbank Centre&#8217;s Belief and Beyond Belief festival, a yearlong exploration\u00a0of \u00a0music, art, culture, science, philosophy, ritual and traditions that have risen out of religion in its many guises. Learn more about the festival and its full programme of events<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/festivals-series\/belief-and-beyond-belief#events\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"p\">2016<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"p\">SSNB Lecture Series: Jewish atheists in foxholes? Phenomenologies of violence and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p\">Dr Stacey Gutkowski (Kings College London)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 6pm, Wednesday 7 December 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Main Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"lead\">SSNB Symposium, 1-2 Dec 2016<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p\">The SSNB symposium presented a series of events exploring current and future knowledge of so-called &#8216;unbelief&#8217; from the perspectives of anthropology, psychology, sociology, media, policy and law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Roundtable: Who cares about unbelief?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Rosie Dawson (BBC Religion and Ethics),\u00a0Professor Peter Edge (School of Law, Oxford Brookes) and Dr Richard Flory (Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 4pm, Friday 2 December 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre,\u00a0UCL Institute of Archaeology,\u00a031-34 Gordon Square,\u00a0London\u00a0WC1H 0PY<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>NSRN Annual Lecture 2016: Is Atheism a Religion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Dr Miguel Farias (Coventry University),\u00a0Professor Christopher French (Goldsmiths College, University of London),\u00a0Dr Jonathan Lanman (Queen\u2019s University Belfast) and chaired by Dr Lois Lee (UCL)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 6pm, Friday 2 December 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre,\u00a0UCL Institute of Archaeology,\u00a031-34 Gordon Square,\u00a0London\u00a0WC1H 0PY<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Lecture Series: Evangelical and Tablighi Pioneers on Post-Atheist Frontiers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Dr Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 6pm, Thursday 1 December 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building,\u00a0UCL,\u00a0Gower Street,\u00a0London\u00a0WC1E 6BT<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Lecture Series: What is a Human? \u00a0The American Public\u2019s Views and the Impact on Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Professor John H. Evans (University of California)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 6pm, Wednesday 9 November, 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing (1st Floor), Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Lecture Series: Does demography doom the religiously unaffiliated to decline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/conrad-hackett\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Conrad Hackett<\/a>\u00a0(Pew Research Center)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Discussants:<\/strong> Andrew Copson\u00a0(British Humanist Association), and\u00a0Professor David Voas\u00a0(UCL Social Sciences)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 5pm, Monday 12 September 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Roundtable: Who cares about unbelief? Social, political and legal questions for the scientific study of nonreligious belief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Chaired by:<\/strong> Dr Lois Lee (UCL)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 8.15am, Sunday 21 August 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a078th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Seattle<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Lecture Series: Rethinking the \u2018Technological Sublime\u2019: Wright\u2019s Urban Planning and Secular Uses of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Professor Courtney Bender (Columbia University)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Discussant:<\/strong> Dr Lois Lee, UCL<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 4.30-6.30pm, Tuesday 26 July 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Council Room, School of Public Policy, UCL, Rubin Building, 29-30 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9QU<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>SSNB Lecture Series: Voices and Other Guiding Presences in the Emergence of Four Religious and Nonreligious Social Movements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Professor Ann Taves (University of California at Santa Barbara)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Discussant:<\/strong> Dr Miguel Farias, Coventry University<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 3-6pm, Monday 6 June 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Past events\"><\/a><a href=\"#top\">back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HomePast Events 2019 17 June 2019 Religious Unbelief in Life Story Interviews Oral historian Dr Paul Merchant talked about his Understanding Unbelief project at the British Library, exploring the nature and diversity of unbelief and tips and tools for finding very particular material in large collections of audio archives. 28-30 May 2019 Cultures of Unbelief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/6844"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}