2020-2021

“In Your Face: Law, Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women" - Professor Natasha Bakht (November 25, 2020)

November 25, 2020 “In Your Face: Law, Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women” Professor Natasha BakhtVia Zoom Register: bit.ly/LRSTNOV25  "The niqab is incompatible with gender equality.” "Women are forced by the men in their families to wear the niqab.” "Wearing a niqab makes living together impossible." This talk will examine such claims made by the majority to constrain the […]

“Buddhist Religious Freedom, in Victory and in Defeat” - Prof Jolyon Thomas (October 21, 2020)

October 21, 2020 “Buddhist Religious Freedom, in Victory and in Defeat” Professor Jolyon ThomasVia Zoom Register: bit.ly/LRSTOCT21  U.S. officials who occupied Japan after World War II claimed that the defeated country totally lacked religious freedom. However, this tidy narrative masked a messy history. Japan’s 1889 constitution had guaranteed religious freedom, and over subsequent decades Japanese clerics […]