The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education are co-sponsoring a conference, Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present. The conference is open to the public.

Admission:
Free with reservation. To reserve a space, contact Melissa McNear at (213) 740-6724 or by email at mcnear@usc.edu

Schedule:
April 3, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and April 4, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location:
USC Davidson Executive Conference Center
3415 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90089-0871

Conference Participants:
Nathalie Caron, Université de Paris XII - Val de Marne
"Tolerating Intolerance: The Case of the 'New' Atheism Movement in the United States "

John Coffey, University of Leicester (Keynote Speaker)
"Between Reformation and Enlightenment: Or How Presbyterians Learned to Love Religious Liberty"

Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College
"The Metaphorical Jew and the History of Tolerance"

Bruno Feitler, Early Modern Studies Assistant Professor, Universidade de São Paulo
"The Search for a Pure Catholicism: Anti-Jewish and Antisemitic Literature in the Early Modern Portuguese World"

Wolf Gruner, University of Southern California
"Unequal Brothers: Indigenous People in the Republic Bolivia after the Independence of 1825"

Evan Haefeli, Columbia University
"Tolerance and Intolerance? European Relations to Religious Difference, c. 1400-1800"

Benjamin Kaplan, University College London
"A Tale of Two Churches"

Howard Lupovitch, Colby College
"From Eden to Hell: Hungarian Jewry’s Meteoric Fall"

Shawn Francis Peters, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Consigned to Mayhem": The Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States during the World War II Era

Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California
"The Meaning of Toleration in Comparative Political Theory and the Implications for Public Policy"

Matthew P. Romaniello, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
“Religious Indifference in an Orthodox State? Delineating Tolerance in Muscovite Russia”

Owen Stanwood, Catholic University
"Another American Paradox: Anti-Popery and Toleration in the Seventeenth Century"

Iryna Vushko, Yale University
"Enligtenment, Bureaucracy, and the Jews: The Case of Austrian Galicia, 1772-1809

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