Dosen sekaligus Ketua Program Studi S3 Ilmu Syari'ah, Dr. Ali Sodiqin, M.Ag, terpilih menjadi salah satu narasumber dalam kegiatan Internatinal Symposium on Religious Life (ISRL) 2020. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan mulai tanggal 2-5 Nopember 2020 dengan mengambil tema "Religious Life, Ethics and Human Dignity in the Disruptive Era". Pelaksana kegiatan ini adalah kolaborasi antara Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Indonesian Association of Religious Researchers (APAI), dan the Agency for Research, Development and Training of the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA).

Terdapat 16 tema yang dipresentasikan dalam simposium ini, yaitu: 1. Faith, Ecology and Sustainibility, 2. Religion, Internet and Sosial Media, 3. Religious Intolerance,Extremism and Radicalism, 4. Halal and Religious Tourism, 5. Human Dignity, Rights and Freedom of Religious Belief, 6. Religious Moderation, 7.Islamic Economics, Education and Dakwah, 8.Islamic Pilgrimage, 9.Gender And Women Leadership in Religion, 10.Sharia and Family Law, 11.Interfaith Harmony and Ethno-ReligiousCohesion, 12.Religious Conflicts and Peacebuilding, 13.Religion and Covid-19 Pandemic, 14.Adat, Sufism and Mysticism, 15.Islamic Conservatism, Populism andProgressivism, dan 16.Religious Mobilization amid the Covid-19Pandemic.

Kegiatan simposium ini dilaksanakan secara luring dan daring. Kegiatan luring (offline) bertempat di Royal Safari Garden Hotel Bogor Jawa Barat, sedangkan kegiatan daringnya dilaksanakan melalui media zoom meeting.Narasumber dalam ISRL 2020 terdiri dari 2 kategori, yaitu undangan dan seleksi. Dalam kegiatan tersebut, Dr. Ali Sodiqin, M.Ag mempresentasikan paper hasil riset yang berjudul, "Standing in Between, Experience of Ethnoreligious Jaton as Minority Muslim in Minahasa, North Sulawesi Indonesia".