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International Conference on Tolerance
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute are co-sponsoring an international conference,
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present,
on April 3-4, 2008. The conference will bring together leading scholars
from France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States; topics
will range from the emergence of religious toleration in early modern
Europe to European ideas about the treatment of indigenous peoples in
the Americas. Professor Benjamin J. Kaplan of University College London
and the University of Amsterdam, author of Divided by Faith: Religious
Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe, will
deliver the keynote address. The conference will be held at the
Davidson Conference Center on the USC Campus and is open to the
public. Admission is free but reservations are required. To reserve a
space, please contact Melissa McNear at (213) 740-6724. For further
information, click here.
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