Amphis Pour Tous – Religious symbols: perspectives from a lawyer and a linguist

March 7, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - March 7, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

The conference “Religious Symbols: Perspectives from a Lawyer and a Linguist ” will be presented by Clément BENELBAZ, lecturer and researcher at the Antoine Favre Law Research Center at the Faculty of Law, and Dominique LAGORGETTE, lecturer and researcher at the Laboratory of Languages, Literatures, Societies, Transborder and International Studies (LLSETI) at the Faculty of Letters, Languages, and Humanities. This lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at La Turbine Sciences in Annecy (entrance via Le Cinéma la Turbine). 

It will also be held: 

  • Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in Chambéry 

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE 

The issue of religious symbols arises regularly in public spaces, particularly in schools. 

It has become commonplace for controversies to arise at the start of each school year (think of certain school uniforms), each summer (the burkini), and also each winter (Christmas nativity scenes). 

The questions raised concern not only the place of religious symbols, but also their meaning. How, indeed, can we determine what is or is not a religious symbol? How should it be interpreted? And finally, what are the consequences, both for public services and for users? 

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