Welcome to #EuARe2025 Conference Program
- The panel 703 SHARIA LAW, MODERN LAW AND THE GOAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, Thursday 10 July 2025 from 16:30 to 17:30 Personalentwicklung Seminar Room , Elevated Ground Floor is cancelled.
- The Publishers Exhibition has been relocated to the corridors left and right of the entrance hall.
- A room for prayers is available in the Tiefparterre basement, Hof (court) 3 next to Stiege (staircase) 5.
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The European Academy of Religion’s Eighth Annual Conference
EuARe2025 - Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation: European Perspectives and Beyond
will take place at the University of Vienna on July 8-12, 2025.
The venue for EuARe 2025 is the
Main Building of the University of Vienna,
located within Vienna’s historic centre (Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna), directly on Vienna’s Ringstrasse Boulevard.
The deadline for panelists registration is June 1st, 2025. Please note that unregistered panelists might be removed from the program. The deadline to register for regular attendees is July 1st, 2025.
Please make sure to gather your badge and the conference materials before entering the conference. The Registration desks will be located at the Aula of the University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna. You can access the Aula through the main entrance of the University of Vienna.
Opening hours
08/07 - from 08:30 until 19:00
09/07 - from 8:00 until 18:00
10/07 - from 8:00 until 18:00
11/07 - from 8:00 until 18:00
12/07 - from 8:00 until 12:00
EuARe General Assembly
EuARe2025 General Assembly will be held in Audimax, University of Vienna, lower ground floor, right wing, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, on July 8, 2025, at 2:30 PM.
Opening Ceremony
The EuARe2025 Opening Ceremony is scheduled to take place in the same hall, Audimax, on July 8, 2025, at 4 PM. Following the Opening Ceremony, two keynote lectures will also be held in the same hall:
- FRANZ FISCHLER(Former EU Commissioner and President of the European Forum Alpbach) “The Role of Religions in the EU’s Social Cohesion”
- GRACE DAVIE(Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter) “Religion in modern Europe: Unexpected challenges”
An evening reception will be held at 7 PM after the Opening Ceremony in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University of Vienna (Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna). Attendance is limited to participants who have registered for the reception.
09/07/2025 , 6 PM, Audimax, University of Vienna
- RIK TORFS(Emeritus Professor at KU Leuven) “Religion in a Secularized Society: Legal Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them”
- TARIQ MODOOD (Professor at the University of Bristol) “A Framework for Comparing and Evaluating Political Secularisms”
- HANS SCHELKSHORN (Professor at the University of Vienna) “Transformations of Religion and Politics in a Multipolar World. New Challenges for an Intercultural Philosophy of Religion”
- ISABELLA GUANZINI (Professor at the Catholic Private University of Linz) “Faith and Desire. On believing in secular Europe”