Speakers

Steven Tomlins is a PhD Candidate at the University of Ottawa in Religious Studies and a Student Team Member of The Religion and Diversity Project, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI). His current area of study deals with atheist communities in a religiously diverse Canada, and how the frameworks of 'multiculturalism' and 'reasonable accommodation' relate to atheism.

Steven is co-organizer, along with Lori G. Beaman, PhD, of the workshop Atheist Identities: Spaces and Social Contexts, which brings together a multidisciplinary group of international scholars to critically assess and understand atheism — and the growing segment of 'religious nones' — in Western societies from a non-theological and non-polemic foundation.