Programme

Please see below for the symposium programme.
Wednesday, 21 October 2026

15.00–16.30: Registration (Main Building, side: Unioninkatu 34)

16.15: Opening words (U3032)

16.30–18.00: Keynote: Key Considerations for Religious Literacy in Action (U3032). , Centre for Civic Religious Literacy. Respondent: Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria.

18.15–19.45 Reception (U2084, U2085)

Thursday, 22 October 2026

9:00–10:00: Registration and coffee (Main Building, side: Fabianinkatu 33, 2nd floor)

10:00–11:30: Keynote: Does Religious Literacy Work? Testing Key Claims in the Field. , University of Helsinki (F3003)

11:30–12:30: Lunch (2nd floor)

12:30–14:00: Parallel sessions 1, see .

  • Critical Religious Literacy: Case studies in theory and practice (F3003)
  • Conceptual 1: What is RL? (U4072)
  • RL in Education 1: Teacher education (U4075)
  • Operationalising RL: From concepts to empirical research (U4078)

14:00–14.30: Coffee (2nd floor)

14:30–16:00: Parallel sessions 2, see .

  • RL in Education 2: From methodological innovation [...] (F3003)
  • Conceptual 2: Beyond traditional conceptualisations (U4072)
  • Empirical 1: Intersections of nationalism, pluralism, and RL (U4075)
  • Empirical 2: Historical approaches to RL (U4078)

18:30: Symposium dinner. , Tallberginkatu 1 C.

Friday, 23 October 2026

9:00–9:30: Coffee (Main Building, side: Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor)

9:30–11:00: Parallel sessions 3, see

  • Empirical 3: Does RL influence attitudes? (F3003)
  • RL in Education 3: Secularity, secularisation, and RL (F3004)
  • Applied 1: RL and contemporary media (F3006)
  • Applied 2: Dialogue, extremism and discrimination (F3010)

11:00–12:00: Lunch (3rd floor)

12:00–13:30: Parallel sessions 4, see

  • RL in Education 4: Critical approaches (F3003)
  • Religious Literacy through genocide education? (F3004)
  • Applied 4: RL and power (F3006)
  • Applied 3: RL in work life (F3010)

13:30–14:00: Coffee, closing the symposium (3rd floor)

Session Timetable

You can find the schedule for parallel sessions .