CONFERENCE PAPERS
 
2012
 
"Neutralité de l'État et polygamie au Canada", Conference of the International Cultic Studies Association, Montréal, 7 July.

"Evangelical Places of Worship in Quebec and France: New Issues of Secularism" (With Frédéric Dejean), 7th International Colloquium on the Changing Religious Landscape of Europe, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, 2 June.
 
"Burqa Bashing : The Circulation of Narratives and their Influence on Laws", Conference "Illegal’ Covering: Comparative Perspectives on Legal and Social Discourses on Religious Diversity", Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, 18 May.

"Neutralité de l'État", Les mots des sciences sociales des religions, EHESS, 6 April.

"Being Neutral While Fighting Against the Burqa? French Secularism Under Pressure", 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, 22 March.

2011

“When Secularism Becomes a Nationalist Value… Narrative Secularism versus Juridical Secularism in France (2003-2010)”, Max Weber Conference, European University Institute, 8 june.
 
"The Normative Frames of the French Law Banning the Burqa in Public Places: Affects and Emotions versus Secularism and Human Rights", Law and Religion Conference, The Center of Law and Religion, Cardiff Law School, 17 May

"Catholic Rituals and Symbols in Government Institutions. Juridical Arrangements, Political Debates and Secular Issues in Quebec", Conference “Religious Norms in public spheres: A Challenge”, Center on Institution and Governance, University of California, Berkeley, May 5

"La perméabilité de la laïcité juridique aux arguments d'une conception nationaliste de la laïcité. Une comparaison Québec-France", Conference "Pluralisme et radicalisation: regards croisés sur les expériences canadiennes et françaises", Montréal, January 8

2010

“ Les fondements éthiques de l’interdiction de la polygamie en Amérique du Nord : éléments de problématique ”, Douzième conférence de Métropolis national, Immigration et diversité. Au carrefour des cultures et au cœur du développement économique, Montréal, March 19

2009

“Les multiples visages de la neutralité dans une même société. L’exemple français”, 30th International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, “The Challenges of Religious Pluralism”, Santiago de Compostella, July 28

“Religious pluralism and the divergences of secular trajectories: comparing practices of secularization in France and Québec”, Conference “Islamic norms in secular public spheres: political problems, legal issues, and social practices”, Center on Institution and Governance, University of California, Berkeley, May 7

“Sous l’affaire dite de la burqa… quel visage de la laïcité française?”, 11th Colloquium for Students and Recent Graduates, CEETUM, Université de Montréal, April 3

2008

“The Judicial Institution in the Service of Neutrality? Reasonnable Accommodation and Reasonned Accommodation in Canada and in France”, 70th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, “Religion crossing bondaries”, Boston, August 2

“A Struggle without a Fight: Managing Homosexuality in Catholic Parish”, 70 th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, “Religion crossing bondaries”, Boston, August 1

“Vivre son homosexualité en paroisse. Échapper à la marginalité… par la marginalité”, International Colloquium on Catholicism, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 19
 
“Si tous les cultes sont égaux, certains sont plus égaux que d’autres. La laïcité française en tension”, 10th Colloquium for Students and Recent Graduates, CEETUM, Université de Montréal, March 28
 
2007
 
“Catholicism and Homosexuality : How is the Divine Message received ? Study of a Downtown Montreal Parish”, 69 th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, “Striving for a better world : Religion and Social Change”, New-York, August 12

“Le port de signes religieux à l’école : un révélateur de la « réalité politique » des laïcités française et canadienne”, 29th International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, University of Leipzig, July 25

“Saint-Pierre-Apôtre of Montreal: A Church Both "In" and "Out" of the Closet”, Canadian Anthropology Society - American Ethnological Society Conference, University of Toronto, May 10

“Penser la laïcité dans les démocraties… à partir du Québec”, 75th ACFAS Conference,“Les relations internationales du Québec dans tous leurs états”, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, May 9 (with Micheline Milot)

“Neutralité et gestion du pluralisme religieux en France”, 9th National Metropolis Conference, “Exploring Canada’s Diversity, Today and Tomorrow”, Toronto, March 1

2006
 
“From Tolerance to Prohibition: The Question of the Islamic Headscarf in France’s and Québec’s Schools” 68 th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, “Intersections: history meets the sociology of religion... again”, Montréal, August 10
 
2005
 
“La création d’un « délit séculier » de manipulation mentale contre les sectes : la réaffirmation juridique de l’unité par la laïcité ? ”, 29th International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference “Religion and Society: Challenging Boundaries”, University of Zagreb, July 20

“De l’accès à la communauté politique à l’exercice des droits dans la communauté politique : l’intégration des immigrés dans les États d’Europe”, 7th Colloquium for Students and Recent Graduates, CEETUM, Université de Montréal, February 25