The Yves Oltramare Chair in “Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World” is organizing an afternoon event in honor of Jean-François Bayart’s departure, focusing on the connections between religion, politics, citizenship, and the nation-state.
The program features two presentations by Jean-François Bayart on the transition from the theological-political to the political-religious and from the Empire to the nation-state, followed by two roundtable discussions on the relationship between research, the social sciences, and artistic creation.

For further information and registration please visit the website of the Graduate Institute.

Former director of research at the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS), former director of the Centre de recherches internationales at Sciences Po in Paris (1994-2000), former permanent consultant to the Centre d'analyse et de prévision of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-2005), Jean-Jacques Rousseau Prize of the City of Geneva in 1997, Jean-François Bayart is a specialist in the historical and comparative sociology of politics, whose work has always taken into account the dimension of religion. He held the Yves Oltramare Chair since 2015.