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<p><font size="6" face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 72pt"><font size="7"><font size="7">Why We Must Accommodate: Competing Human Rights at York University</span></b></font></font></font></p>
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<b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 26pt">David Seljak, PhD</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Department of Religious Studies,
</span></b><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">University of Waterloo</span></b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><font face="Calibri">Earlier this year, York University sociology professor Paul Grayson went public with a student’s request for religious accommodation, outlining
the case as a conflict between “parochial religious rights” and universal human rights. He later affirmed his support for Quebec’s Charter of Values. This talk looks at the relationship of religion, human rights, secularism, and multiculturalism in Canadian
public life.<b></b></font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">David Seljak
</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">is co-editor of <i>Religion and Ethnicity in Canada</i> and
<i>Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada</i>. Recently he has worked on the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s policies on competing rights and protecting religious freedom.</span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">Arts Lecture Hall 113
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 3:30-5:00 p.m.</font></span></b></p>
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<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 18pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">Refreshments will be served.<span>
</span>All are welcome.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo</font></span><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></span></p>
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