EME Conferences
EME conferences bring IARF members and friends together across Europe and the Middle East for learning, dialogue, worship, relationship-building and practical cooperation.
This archive points to the surviving reports, programmes, recordings and other material from recent regional conferences. The historical pages are preserved as records of their time.
- 2025
Offenbach & Frankfurt, Germany Limits of Religious Freedom and Tolerance
11–14 September 2025
A four-day gathering exploring the difficult boundaries between religious freedom, tolerance and other human rights, alongside liberal religion, interfaith dialogue and the life of IARF member communities. The programme included a keynote by Seyran Ateş, a panel on Free Religion, an interfaith service and a regional pre-tour.
- 2021
Online Does Religion Set You Free?
8–11 May 2021
EME’s first wholly digital conference explored the relationship between religion and liberty through lectures, workshops, circle groups, a panel, interfaith devotions and social time.
- 2016
Tetovo, North Macedonia Religion and Conflict Prevention
Hosted jointly by the Bektashi community and the Evropa Centre for Human Rights, the conference focused on religion, reconciliation and conflict prevention. Participants came from 14 countries, and the programme included lectures, workshops, regional business meetings and an Albania pre-conference tour.
- 2012
Elspeet, the Netherlands Liberal Religion on ‘hold’, ‘play’, or ‘fast forward’?
19–22 July 2012
More than 70 participants from 10 countries gathered at Mennorode Conference Centre for a conference on liberal religion with a particular focus on leadership, combining lectures, workshops, devotions and social events.
- 2009
Mannheim, Germany Religious Freedom: A Call To Action
22–25 October 2009
The Mannheim EME Conference focused directly on religious freedom as a call to practical action. The surviving archive includes a conference video and a short written report.
- 2008
Belfast, Northern Ireland IARF Europe & Middle East Conference
24–27 July 2008
IARF Europe and Middle East members gathered in Belfast for a regional conference sponsored by the European Liberal Protestant Network and IARF. Two participant reports remain available in the archive.
Study tours are archived separately. The planned 2017 regional conference was converted into the EME Interfaith Study Tour Poland 2017, so it is not listed here as a completed conference.
