Pluralism and Peacemaking: Multi-Faith Neighbors

BYU Conference Center, Room 2258 – 2260
Moderator: Micah Fries, Director, Multi-Faith Neighbor’s Network and the Director of Engagement, Glocal.net

Speakers:
Phil Adams, Pastor, Park Community Church, Illinois
Ari Hart, Senior Rabbi, Skokie Valley Synagogue, Illinois
Imam Sulaiman Salaam, Al Haqq Islamic Center, Missouri

Realizing the Promises of the Declaration—Religion in U.S. History: Original Understandings of Religion-State Separation in the U.S.

BYU Conference Center, Room 2254
Moderator and Respondent: Barbara McGraw, Professor of Social Ethics, Law, and Public Life and of Politics, Saint Mary’s College of Southern California

Speakers:
Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies, Willamette University
Mark Hall, Professor of Politics, The Robertson School of Government at Regent University

Religious Liberty Developments: Parental Rights—Mahmoud v. Taylor and Its Progeny

BYU Conference Center, Room 2265
Moderator: Annika Boone Barkdull, Research Fellow, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young

Speakers:
Eric Baxter, Senior Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Shannon Minter, Legal Director, The National Center for LGBTQ Rights
Gene C. Schaerr, Partner and Co-founder, Schaerr Jaffe, LLP

Religious Liberty Developments: Religious Persecution, Asylum, and Refugee Status—Contemporary Issues

BYU Conference Center, Room 2267
Moderator: William Duncan, Constitutional Law & Religious Freedom Fellow, The Sutherland Institute

Speakers:
Olivia Whiteley, Strategy Director, Reliable Refuge, Advocacy Strategy Consultant, The Refugee Advocacy Lab
Mobarakeh Nouri, Speaker, Colorado Refugee Speakers Bureau
Lance Conklin, Attorney at Law, Conklin Immigration Law

Pluralism and Peacemaking: Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic World

BYU Conference Center, Room 2258 – 2260
Moderator: Paul E. Kerry, Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University

Speakers:
Orit Avishai, Professor of Sociology, Fordham University
Charles Randall Paul, Founder & President, Foundation for Religious Diplomacy
Barbara A. McGraw, Professor of Social Ethics, Law, and Public Life and of Politics, Saint Mary’s College of Southern California

Realizing the Promises of the Declaration—Religion in U.S. History: The Black Church – Realizing the Promises of the Declaration

BYU Conference Center, Room 2254
Moderator: Rev. Dr. David Latimore, Director for the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary

Speakers:
Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Ethics & Society, Interim AADS Chair, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of African American Religious History, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion
Byron Thomas, Senior Pastor, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church, Georgia

Pluralism and Peacemaking: Peacemaking and Religious Freedom (Civility Credit)

BYU Conference Center, Room 2265
Moderator: Betsy Bennion, Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University

Speakers:
Benjamin P. Marcus, Senior Constitutional Law Fellow, GLAD Law
Emily de Schweinitz Taylor, certified mediator, developmental psychologist, conflict coach, and executive trainer
Micah Fries, Director, Multi-Faith Neighbor’s Network and the Director of Engagement, Glocal.net

Religious Liberty Developments: Public Funding of Religious Education

BYU Conference Center, Room 2267
Moderator: Erin Cranor, University Counsel, Brigham Young University

Speakers:
Richard Katskee, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Appellate Litigation Clinic, Duke University
Annika Boone Barkdull, Research Fellow, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young

Pluralism and Peacemaking: Interfaith Grassroots Religious Freedom Efforts—Religious Freedom Advisory Council

BYU Conference Center, Room 2258 – 2260
Moderator: Gary B. Doxey, Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University

Speakers:
Bill Benac, National Chairman, Religious Freedom Alliance Council, Co-founder of Pathway India
Allyson Egbert, President and Co-Founder, Las Vegas Alliance for Religious Freedom and Human Dignity
Hannah Clayson Smith, Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University

Realizing the Promises of the Declaration—Religion in U.S. History: Founding Ideals and Civic Education (Ethics Credit)

BYU Conference Center, Room 2254
Moderator: Gene C. Schaerr, Partner and Co-founder, Schaerr Jaffe, LLP

Speakers:
Colleen Sheehan, Professor of Politics in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University
Robert Burton, Director (CTLI), Tocqueville Assistant Professor of Civic Thought and Leadership (History and Political Science), Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University

Religious Liberty Developments: Religious Freedom Rankings in U.S. States

BYU Conference Center, Room 2265
Moderator: W. Cole Durham, Jr., Founding Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University

Speakers:
Mark Hall, Professor of Politics, The Robertson School of Government at Regent University
Derringer Dick, Strategic Research Associate, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty