Listen to a conversation with author of Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion.
PODCASTS
Why the World Needs Religious Studies (and Why Religious Studies Needs the World)
Listen to a talk by Nathan Schneider, adapted from an essay he wrote for Religion Dispatches, and a conversation that followed with Columbia faculty and students. Nathan Schneider, editor of the online literary magazine Killing the Buddha and the website Waging Nonviolence, writes about reason, religion, and politics for publications including Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, and Commonweal.
Charles Best: Burden of Choice
Listen to a public conversation with Charles Best, Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that provides a way for people to donate directly to public schools. Through peer-to-peer philanthropy, the nonprofit has raised more than $100 million for 200,000 projects at public schools across the country. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life.
Burden of Choice is a conversation series about how proliferating choices in a liberal democracy both liberate and constrain us.
Mobilities and Immobilities: Reflections of Fieldwork in Palestine
Listen to a podcast of a public talk by Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at IRCPL. This 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.
Multivocality of Religious Sites
Listen to a podcast of a seminar discussion with Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at IRCPL. This 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.
Jennifer Egan: Rewiring the Real
Listen to a conversation with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad as well as Look at Me and The Keep. Moderated by Willing Davidson, fiction editor of The New Yorker. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion.
Mobility and ‘Dualist’ Heretical Movements in Western and Central Eurasia
Listen to a podcast of a public talk by Yuri Stoyanov, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The lecture explore movements in Western and Central Eurasia like Manichaeism, Paulicianism, Bogomilism, and Ismailism.
Mormonism and American Politics Conference Video
Watch video of the conference of Mormonism and American Politics, held on February 3rd-4th, 2012, at Columbia University. It takes a broad view of the history of Mormon participation in American political life, from Joseph Smith’s 1844 run for the presidency to the new era of Mormon identification with the Republican Party.
Speakers include Randall Balmer, Jana Reiss, Richard Bushman, Claudia Bushman, Joanna Brooks, Matthew Bowman,Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jan Shipps, David Campbell, Russell Arben Fox, Max Perry Mueller, Philip Barlow, and Peggy Fletcher Stack.
Special thanks to Trevor Hill, director of The Religious Test, for filming the conference.
Paul Kollman: “God(s) at Large: Tentative Theses on Religion and Mobility”
Listen to a conversation with Paul Kollman, Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame and 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.
Neal Stephenson: Rewiring the Real
Listen to a conversation with Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and most recently Reamde. Moderated by Alfred E. Guy Jr, director of Yale College Writing Center.
Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, Jennifer Egan on February 7 and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24.