Welcome to the website of the international conference Sexual Modernities. The symposium will take place 12-13 October 2023, in presence at Lausanne (Switzerland). It can also be followed remotely (see "practical information").

The conference is jointly organised by the University of Lausanne and the Eurel project. (See the call for papers).

The conference features keynote lectures by Eric Fassin (Institut universitaire de France) and John Adenitire (Queen Mary University of London).

Conference scientific committee: Francesco Alicino (LUM Casamassima, Italy), Sylvie Toscer-Angot (University of Tours, France), Mischa Piraud (CIC, Geneva, Switzerland), Josselin Tricou (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Léopold Vanbellingen (University of Louvain, Belgium), Anne-Laure Zwilling (DRES UMR 7354, CNRS/University of Strasbourg, France).

Conference local committee: Institut des Sciences Sociales des Religions (ISSR-Unil).   

The Eurel project is directed by Anne-Laure Zwilling, and supported by the UMR 7354 DRES of the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS, and GSRL (EPHE, Paris).

The Eurel project is also a place of scholarly exchange. The network members meet every year. Every second year, this meeting is the occasion of an international conference open to all specialists of the law and social sciences of religions. During 4 years, Eurel has worked on the topic of "Religions and territories" in the framework of a research project supported by the University of Strasbourg. The first conference took place in Manchester, 25-26 October 2012, organised by CRESC of the University of Manchester. In 2014, the conference took place in Lublin (Poland), with the support of the Faculty of Law of Lublin. In 2016, the conference took place at the University of Luxembourg on Governance and religion, in 2018 in Oslo on Formatting non-religion in modern societies, and in 2022 in Porto on Regulate Religion.