CU EVENT: Launch of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
LAUNCH of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Thursday, November 6, 1-6:30pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library Convened by co-directors Mark C. Taylor, Chair of Department of Religion and Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government.
1-2:30 pm The Past and Future of Religion and Toleration Toleration Faculty Working Group: Karen Barkey, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Ira Katznelson, Sudipta Kaviraj, Alfred Stepan, and Nadia Urbinati with Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University
3-4:30 pm Art, Religion and Politics: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Thomas Krens, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
5-6:30 pm Literature and Terror
Salman Rushdie, whose Midnight s Children (1981) was recently named the best novel to have received the Man Booker Prize Opening remarks by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University Introduction by Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature
ADDITIONAL PUBLIC EVENTS
Fall 2008
Who’s Afraid of Sharia?: War, Law and Humanitarian Intervention Thursday, October 2, 4-6pm IRWaG Seminar Room, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 754
A conversation between Naz Modirzadeh (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard School of Public Health) and Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), moderated by Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School).
Organized by Lila Abu-Lughod, William B. Ransford Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies.
Co-sponsored with Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) and Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD).
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Philip Gourevitch: Literature and Terror Tuesday, October 14, 6-7:30pm Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
A conversation with Philip Gourevitch, writer and editor of The Paris Review, on his most recent book Standard Operating Procedure, which he co-authored with filmmaker Errol Morris. The book and Morris’ film explore Abu Ghraib.
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Humanitarianism * Activism * Media * Religion: A public panel and media project Thursday, October 23, 6-8pm Library, Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
A discussion with social activists.
Panelists include Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam), Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley) and Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina).
Co-sponsored with Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).
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Religion and Medicine in New Spain
Thursday, October 30, 6-7:30pm
International Affairs Building, Room 802
New Evidence, 1400-1800: Jaime Lara, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University Divinity School and José Pardo Tomás, Department of History of Science at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Barcelona.
Co-sponsored with Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and of Religion; Institute for Latin American Studies; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
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1948-1978: Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims Friday-Saturday, November 7-8, 9am-5pm Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, 1501
A conference on the legacy of Edward Said’s work. Lectures by Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, and Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.
Co-sponsored with Middle East Institute (MEI).
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Six Hundred Years of Religious Conflict and Accommodation in India Monday, November 10, 10am-1pm Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1512
A conference on India’s tradition of social peace and tolerance in public life, a counterexample to the assumption that a successful democracy depends on its society’s decline in religious belief.
Convened by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, and Rajeev Bhargava, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, is Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.
Co-sponsored with Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).
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Charles Taylor: Distinguished IRCPL Scholar in Residence Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and Templeton Prize-winning author of A Secular Age (2007).
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What is Enchantment?
Monday, November 17, 8-10 pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
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The Secular Age in a Global Context
Wednesday, November 19, 6:15-8:15pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Co-sponsored with Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR); Committee on Global Thought (CGT); and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Literature and Terror Tuesday, December 2, 6-7:30pm Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
A conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the acclaimed Everything is Illuminated, which was adapted into a feature film directed by Liev Schreiber.
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Looking ahead to Spring 2009
The Literature and Terror series will continue with writers Paul Auster, David Ignatius, Uzodinma Iweala, and Dalia Sofer. Specific dates are to be determined.
In addition, Irving Weissman, Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University, will deliver the prestigious Bampton Lectures in America in January 2009. Dr. Weissman is Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and the 2008 Koch Prize Winner for advances in the biomedical sciences.
The series of lectures will held at the Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 on the following dates:
Wednesday, January 21, 5-7pm
Thursday, January 22, 5-7pm
Tuesday, January 27, 5-7pm
Thursday, January 29, 5-7pm
