A public talk by Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at IRCPL.

His talk is part of the Religion and Mobility Faculty Seminar, organized by Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology and History, and Valentina Izmirlieva, Professor of Slavic Languages, and sponsored by the IRCPL.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and the Middle East Institute.

A lecture by Alioune Badara Diop, a political scientist at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal. Moderated by Ousmane Kane, associate professor of international and public affairs at SIPA at Columbia University.

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

4:00 – 6:00 pm: A discussion with Bachir Souleymane Diagne, Etienne Smith, Alfred Stepan, and Alioune Badara Diop, a political scientist at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal. Moderated by Mamadou Diouf.

6:15 – 7:30 pm: A screening of film Democracy in Dakar, which looks at the involvement of the youth and rap singers in the elections in 2007.

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

A conversation with Michael Laffan, Professor of History, Princeton University and author of The Makings of Indonesian Islam; and with Duncan McCargo, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute and author of Mapping National Anxieties: Thailand’s Southern Conflict.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR).

A conversation with Paul Kollman, who will draw upon his research in African Christianity as well as other trends in religious studies to offer some suggestions about how studies of religion and mobility have been already undertaken and how they might profitably move forward. Kollman is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Fellow of the Kellogg, Kroc, and Nanovic Institutes at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Acting Director of the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame. In 2005 he published The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa and his current project is a book on the Catholic missionary evangelization of eastern Africa.

A workshop on religion and human rights pragmatism, which focuses on strategies for promoting rights through persuasion and dialogue across cultural and religious divides. The panelists and audience for these open workshops will include scholars and non-academic practitioners in the human rights field.  Students are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, supported by a grant from the Luce Foundation.

On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion.

Participants include Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris (ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA).

Seating is limited, and registration is required. Please RSVP to jlb2210@columbia.edu.

Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL).

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