{"id":6560,"date":"2023-12-20T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6560"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:44:31","slug":"hiding-in-plain-sight-how-religion-and-state-interact-in-the-global-north","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/hiding-in-plain-sight-how-religion-and-state-interact-in-the-global-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in Plain Sight? How Religion and State interact in the Global North"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a workshop organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/nathan-j-brown\/\">Nathan Brown<\/a>, HIAS invites you to a panel discussion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are as many ways of handling religion in public life, but in almost all societies there are controversies:school curricula, public space, dress, family law and practices. Much international attention on these issues focus on locations in the global South. But even self-proclaimed secular societies in the global North experience deep controversies over how two realms\u2013that of official law and policy and of that of faith, community, and practice\u2013intersect and overlap.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this panel, a collection of scholars who have worked comparatively on issues of religion and state will reflect on global patterns for religion-state relations.<br>For this panel, Nathan J. Brown invited a collection of scholars who have worked comparatively on issues of religion and state will reflect on global patterns for religion-state relations.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion will be moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jura.uni-hamburg.de\/en\/die-fakultaet\/personenverzeichnis\/yassari-nadjma.html\">Nadjma Yassari<\/a>, Professor of law at Universit\u00e4t Hamburg and Leader of the research group \u00abChanges in God\u2019s Law\u00bb at the Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panelists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/nathan-j-brown\/\">Nathan J. Brown<\/a> \u00b7 George Washington University<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de\/e\/islamwiss\/personen\/profs\/Kraemer\/index.html\">Gudrun Kr\u00e4mer<\/a> \u00b7 Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<br><a href=\"https:\/\/ials.sas.ac.uk\/\">Mirjam K\u00fcnkler<\/a> \u00b7 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London<br><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/people\/james-wellman\/\">James Wellman<\/a> \u00b7 University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date and Venue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>January 18, 2024, 5 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIAS<br>Rothenbaumchaussee 45, 20148 Hamburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>R.S.V.P. by 15 January, 2024 to event@hias-hamburg.de<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will be held in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group Pattern-Logos has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.67%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6565,"template":"","event_type":[100],"class_list":["post-6560","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-workshop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}