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Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at The Center for the Humanities

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two pioneering political and cultural theorists discuss the historic tensions between western secularism

and gender equality. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley.

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Moderated by Anthony Alessandrini,

Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Join two prominent scholars of American civic life for a discussion about the past and continuing influence of

religious thought on American politics. Featuring Randal Balmer, Professor of Religious History at Columbia University,

and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University. John Torpey, Professor of Sociology

at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

Co-presented as part of the Great Issues Forum. For more information, please visit www.greatissuesforum.org

What is Faith Today?

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two leading social scientific analysts of global religion discuss the nature of religious faith today and

the prospects for better understanding of the ever-elusive problem of religious faith in modern society. Bryan Turner

is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney.

Philip Gorski is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Moderated by John Torpey, Professor of Sociology at

The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

Do we live in a secular age? What does it mean to say that we do? Join Bill Connolly, Professor of Political

Science at Johns Hopkins University, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, and

Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, as they discuss these and other questions.

Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities.

Does the State

The Skylight Room (9100)

Join two legal and political theorists as they examine religious threads running through modern secular

philosophy, political theory, and the state itself. Paul Kahn is Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for

International Human Rights, Yale University. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of

Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow

at the Center for the Humanities.

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