Each year, IRCPL awards fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University to travel abroad or within the United States to conduct research on their dissertations and senior theses.
View guidelines and eligibility requirements for 2012 fellowship applications.
Applications for 2012 fellowships are due Monday, February 13, 2012, at 5 pm. Please e-mail or deliver applications to Emily Brennan: 80 Claremont Avenue, Room 203, MC 9611, New York, NY 10027. eb422@columbia.edu.
The IRCPL and the CDTR are happy to announce the continuation of the ongoing project Sacred Spaces – Religion and Conflict Resolution. Since 2009, Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology and History and Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs, have been fostering the examination of particular sacred sites, primarily in former Ottoman Empire areas, to look at historical as well as present-day issues surrounding shared sacred spaces. By delving into the past more carefully they show that we can document the legacy of shared sites and lived experience, thereby informing contemporary events.
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IRCPL is pleased to announce the 2011 fellowship recipients. Five graduate and three undergraduate students at Columbia have been awarded grants to conduct research for their dissertations and theses this summer and fall. View past fellowship recipients and guidelines for 2012 fellowship applications due February 2012.
For more information, please visit our grants page.
With the sponsorship of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia Professors Josef Sorett and Obery Hendricks have started a new initiative to publicly document the religious life of Harlem. With the help of Columbia University students, the Religions of Harlem project uses written research, photos, and video to provide a unique view of the wide range of religious expressions, leaders, and communities that have been and continue to be central to the cultural worlds of Harlem. The locations students visit and capture are shared on the site’s blog and can also be viewed as a map.
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Deadline extended to Monday, February 14, 2011.
Each year, IRCPL awards fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University to travel abroad or within the United States to research on their dissertations and senior theses. Click here to view this year’s and past fellowship recipients. Read the rest of this entry »
Ecologies and Economies. Organized by Jonathan Schorsch, Associate Professor of Religion. In light of the worsening global environmental crisis, we will read a handful of works treating the intersection of natural philosophy, environmental sciences, economics, ethics and metaphysics. Readings will address reconsideration of the progressivist, techno-capitalist project of modernism with an eye toward re-inclusion of what can aptly be called metaphysical realms: questions of desire, progress, satisfaction, “the good.” Whether one labels these questions philosophical, political, bio-chemical or theological, it seems obvious that they must be conceptualized as a holistic path that seeks to understand and link the workings of the universe and the workings of the self.
Edited by Courtney Bender and Pamela E. Klassen
The first book in IRCPL’s publication series with Columbia University Press After Pluralism offers a critique on how religious difference is often framed as a problem only pluralism can solve. Its essays treat pluralism as concept historically and ideologically produced and explore it as a term that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism’s ideals in diverse sites—Broadway plays, Polish Holocaust memorials, Egyptian dream interpretations, German jails, and legal theories—and demonstrate its shaping of political and social interaction in surprising and powerful ways. To be published on October 15, 2010.
IRCPL is currently soliciting proposals for faculty seminars to be held in Fall 2011 or Spring 2012. These semester-long seminars bring together Columbia faculty and colleagues of peer institutions for investigations of interdisciplinary topics. Past seminars were on such topics as Networks, Toleration, Blood and Ghosts (to view past seminars and their participants, please visit: http://ircpl.org/seminars).
If you would like to organize a faculty seminar in the Fall 2011 or Spring 2012, please submit a proposal with a 1-2 page description of subject and a list of likely participants. It should also indicate anticipated results of the seminar, such as particular courses, a collection of essays, public lectures or symposia. Each seminar may have up to two organizers, who will each receive a stipend of $2000. Each seminar will also be provided with $2000 for expenses such as books, catering and materials.
Deadline for Fall 2011 Seminars: June 1st, 2011
Deadline for Spring 2012 Seminars: October 1st, 2011
Proposals due to Emily Brennan at eb422@columbia.edu
Iran: After the Election
Leading Iranian scholars and analysts discuss the impact of the recent elections, Iran’s relationship with the international community and the theocratic foundations of the Islamic Republic. The conference was sponsored by SIPA and the Middle East Institute. [December 5, 2009]
Access video and audio of the event via links at the conference site.
