📚 Guest Lecture Announcement 📚

Join us for a compelling lecture with Dr. Brendan Szendro, Faculty Lecturer at McGill University, as he explores how state policies can co-opt religion and contribute to democratic backsliding.

🗓 Friday, April 25, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Washburn Hall #111, 80 Upper College Rd., Kingston, RI 02881

In his talk, “Buying out the Market: How States Co-opt Religion During Democratic Backsliding,” Dr. Szendro will draw from case studies in Israel and Hungary to discuss how both support and restriction can distance religious groups from civil society.

Presented by the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies.