Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania

Co-moderators:
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Josef Sorett, Columbia University

Seating is limited. To RSVP, send email to: dwm2110@columbia.edu

A discussion with:

• Christopher Caldwell, senior editor at The Weekly Standard, columnist at the Financial Times, author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
• Adam Gopnik, writer for The New Yorker, author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages;
• Patrick Weil, visiting professor at Yale Law School, director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies, at the University of Paris 1, and author of How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789.
• Chaired by Peter Awn, professor of Islamic Religion and Comparative Religion and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

A cocktail reception with the speakers will follow. To attend the event, please RSVP to: mj2412@columbia.edu

Co-sponsored by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program, the American Foundation, and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

A conference on how some religions in conflict have collaborated on shared access to religious sites they hold sacred.  Negotiations over these sites in Turkey, North Africa, the Balkans and Palestine/Israel serve as models for toleration.

Co-sponsored by Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) at Columbia University.

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Speakers: Can Paker (Chair, TESEV), Etyen Mahçupyan (Turkish/Armenian Journalist, former Editor in Chief of Agos), Dilek Kurban (Program Officer, TESEV), Henri Barkey, (Lehigh University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Zehra Arat (SUNY Purchase), Jeremy Walton (New York University).

Panels will address how questions related to identity, nation-state and citizenship are being reshaped from below and how the Turkish state responds to minority, ethnic and religious challenges to citizenship in Turkey.  They will also examine the role and limits of state institutions and civil society in responding to social pressure for change.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Turkish Studies, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Middle East Institute (MEI)

A prestigious group of over a dozen Iranian scholars, media entrepreneurs, and democratic activists will discuss the role of new forms of media in the pursuit of social change within Iran.  The forum will feature a series of talks in Low Library in the morning and interactive break-out sessions on various topics in the afternoon. For more information and registration, please visit: www.newgenerationforum.org

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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The discipline that was once called “Oriental Studies” has been divided up in various ways in today’s university. This conference is concerned not with “the death of the discipline” as so many others have been, but rather with the diversity of the disciplines when it comes to studying the non-Western World.

Join us for student papers, two faculty discussion panels, and a keynote address by Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA. For more information, including a schedule, presentation abstracts and directions, see http://www.columbia.edu/~add2115/gradconf/

A talk by SENER AKTURK, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Reception to follow.

For more information, please contact Mucahit Bilici at mbilici@jjay.cuny.edu.

This talk is part of the Religion and Politics Lecture Series, which is co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A lecture and concert with Grammy-nominated Amjad Ali Khan, a maestro without peer in Indian classical music. Accompanied by his two sons, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, he will play some of his most popular songs with the sarod, a soulful string instrument.

Tickets for Lecture in Lerner Hall, 6-7PM
http://cuarts.com/calendar/view/type/4/event_id/5288

Tickets for Concert in Miller Theatre, 8-10PM
www.millertheatre.com

The most prominent politicians and intellectuals of the left in India will gather to discuss the role of the left in the future of a globalized India.

Speakers include Prabhat Patnaik, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Planning Board of the Indian state of Kerala), Sitaram Yechury (author of Saffron Brigade and columnist with Hindustan Times), C.P. Chandrasekhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University and co-author of Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia), Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Javeed Alam (author of Domination and Dissent, Who wants Democracy?), Sanjay Reddy (Barnard College and SIPA), Arjun Jayadev (University of Massachusetts), Anush Kapadia (Columbia University), and Akeel Bilgrami (Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University).

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Committee on Global Thought.

A discussion with Al Jazeera Director General,  Wadah Khanfar, who transformed the single channel into a media network with multiple properties including Al Jazeera English.  Ranked as one of the most “Powerful People in the World” by Forbes Magazine, Khanfar began his career as a news correspondent in South Africa and later reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. One of his first mandates as managing director was to launch the Al Jazeera Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct in July 2004 at the First Al Jazeera International Forum.

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute and Columbia’s School of Journalism.