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.
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life is currently accepting fellowship applications from graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University to conduct research related to their dissertations and senior theses. The fellowship will provide each student $4000 to cover expenses directly related to research, including, travel, lodging and materials. For application details and deadlines, click here.
Organized by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of Religion and Co-Director of IRCPL, the seminar will explore the relationship of networks to social, political and cultural ideas and practices. Consideration will be given to the role of networks in industrial, consumer and finance capitalism through an investigation of railroads, typewriters, telephones, television, Internet, the World Wide Web and cell phones. Schedule for bi-weekly meetings will be determined in January 2010. If you are interested in participating in the seminar, please e-mail eb422@columbia.edu.
JACK MILES: The Future of Religious Language
SUSANNAH HESCHEL: Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe
SUSANNAH HESCHEL: Jesus as Aryan Hero: The Peculiar Conversion of Christianity into National Socialism
JON MEACHAM: Covering Conflict
CHARLES TAYLOR: Can Human Action Be Explained?
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life announces a joint program between Columbia University and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. The Institute and the University will plan workshops and cooperation to add to our already existing research on Turkey. The Institute plans joint conferences with members of various departments at Boğaziçi University, among them Political Science and International Relations, Sociology, History and the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
Faculty Seminars bring together Columbia faculty and colleagues from different departments and disciplines for semester-long investigations of interdisciplinary topics. For directions on how to submit a seminar proposal for Fall 2009 or Spring 2010, click here.
Listen to IRCPL co-director Mark C. Taylor read his op-ed on higher education from The New York Times (April 26, 2009). Read it here.
PAUL AUSTER: Literature and Terror
A conversation with PAUL AUSTER, acclaimed novelist, essayist and translator. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life.
CHARLES TAYLOR: The Politics of Recognition
A lecture by Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and Templeton Prize-winning author of A Secular Age (2007).
