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PAST SPRING 2009 EVENTS
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Bampton Lectures in America:
Irving Weissman
January 21 - January 29, 2009
International Affairs Building, Room 1501 |
The 36th Bampton Lectures will be delivered by Irving Weissman, the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and Director of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute at Stanford University. He is also the 2008 Koch Prize Winner for advances in the biomedical sciences.
• "Adult Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine," Wednesday, January 21, 5-7pm
• "Cancer and Leukemia Stem Cells: A New Paradigm for Research, Diagnosis and Therapy," Thursday, January 22, 5-7pm
• "Embryonic and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Science and Medicine meet Politics and Religious Organizations," Tuesday, January 27, 5-7pm
• "Self and Nonself: Co-evolution of Stem Cells and Immunity and Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind," Thursday, January 29, 5-7pm
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University.
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Uzodinma Iweala: Literature and Terror
Tuesday, February 3, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
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A conversation with Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation and named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Moderated by Mamadou Diouf, the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and Director of Institute for African Studies.
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Candor or Respect? Talking about the Religion of Others
A Law Conference
Thursday, February 26, 9:30am - 5pm
Jerome Hall, Room 107
435 West 116th Street
Are candor and respect compatible when discussing other religions in the public sphere? This conference investigates the dangers of neglecting both in the realms of governance, diplomacy and journalism.
Panelists include Bat Ye'or, Faisal Devji (The New School University), Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law School), Marci Hamilton (Cardozo Law School), Leonard Leo (US Commission on International Religious Freedom), Tomoko Masuzawa (University of Michigan), Flemming Rose (Culture Editor, Jyllands-Posten), Alfred Stepan (Columbia University) and Winnifred Sullivan (SUNY at Buffalo Law School).
Sponsored in partnership with Mark Kingdon and Columbia Law School.
Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Transnational Motors of 'Nationalist' Revolution in Southeast Asia
Thursday, February 19, 1-3 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by JOHN SIDEL, the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at LSE, on anti-colonialist revolutions in the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR).
ERGUN OZBUDUN: Turkey between Democratizing Pressures and the Resistance of the State Elites
Monday, March 2, 6-8 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street
A conversation with ERGUN OZBUDUN, Professor of Law at Bilkent University in Turkey and IRCPL Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the author of Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation and the co-editor of Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State. He recently chaired the academic committee to draft a new constitution for Turkey.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute.
A conversation with DALIA SOFER, author of the novel The Septembers of Shiraz based on her family's flight from post-revolutionary Iran. It was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2008. Moderated by Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University.
Democracy, Islam and Secularism: Turkey in Comparative Perspective
Friday-Saturday, March 6-7, 2009, 9am-6pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501420 West 118th Street
Turkey is the only member of NATO and candidate member of the European Union that is a Muslim-majority country. Assertive secularism, multiparty democracy, and military interventions are other puzzling aspects of Turkish politics. This conference aims to present an integrated picture of Turkey by bringing together comparative perspectives on its past, present, and future, and delving into such issues as the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, secularism, religion, democracy, civil-military relations, and the European Union membership.
Participants include Alfred Stepan, Ergun Ozbudun, Andrew Arato, Karen Barkey, Richard Bulliet, Ümit Cizre, David Cuthell, Şükrü Hanioğlu, Stathis Kalyvas, Rashid Khalidi, Mirjam Künkler, Ahmet Kuru, Joost Lagendijk, Joan Scott and Nur Yalman.
Co-sponsored by the Turkish Studies Institute, the Middle East Institute, and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
• Watch coverage on Ebru TV and Turk.net.
Governing Areas of Dissidence: Nation-Building and State-Minority Relations in Turkey and Morocco
Tuesday, March 24, 4:15-5:45pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by SENEM ASLAN (Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University)as part of the Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics Lecture Series. Moderated by Ayca Cubukcu (Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute (MEI).
Democracy without Accountability? Indonesia's Party Cartel in the 2009 Elections
Wednesday, March 25, 12-2 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by DAN SLATER, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, addressing Indonesia's elites and their response to the country's democratic transition. Slater will discuss elite strategies during the 1999-2004 period and likely results from the upcoming 2009 elections.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR).
The Nationalist Hindu Militias
Wednesday, March 25, 12:30-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT (Sciences Po-CERI, Paris) on the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the rise of ethnic nationalism and ideology in India. Moderated by Alfred Stepan, the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University.
Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program; Southern Asian Institute; Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion; and the Political Science Department.
Democratization in the Arab World
Thursday, March 26, 12:30-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1118
420 West 118th Street
A talk by JEAN LECA (Sciences-Po, Paris) on current global political dynamics in reference to the concepts of uncertainty, vulnerability, and legitimacy. He will use Algeria as a case study for democratic processes in the Arab world. Introduction by Peter Awn, Director of the Middle East Institute and Dean of General Studies. Light lunch will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program and Middle East Institute.
Read Leca's articles (PDF):
• "Democratization in the Arab World: Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Legitimacy," Democracy Without Democrats?: The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World (1994).
• "Opposition in the Middle East and North Africa," Government and Opposition (1997).
Mother, Daughter, and Violence
An Evening of Interactive Black/Islamic Feminist Opera
Saturday, March 28, 8pm
Miller Theater at Columbia University
A performance of extracts from the operas The Daughters of Ishmael in Wind and Storm by Assia Djebar and Margaret Garner by Toni Morrison and Richard Danielpour. Accompanied by a discussion with Assia Djebar, Toni Morrison, Leila Ahmed (Harvard Divinity School), and Angela Davis (University of California Santa Cruz).
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
What is Toleration? Reflections on Jews, Civic Membership and the Western Liberal Tradition
Monday, March 30, 6:15-7:30pm
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
University Lecture by Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History. Hosted by President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost Alan Brinkley.
Sponsored by University Program and Events.
David Ignatius: Literature and Terror
Tuesday, March 31, 6:30-8pm
Journalism Hall, 3rd floor
A conversation with David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post and author of Body of Lies, which was recently adapted into a feature film. Moderated by Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of the Graduate School of Journalism.
Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School.
Gendered Punishment and Punitive Memory in Democratic Kampuchea
Tuesday, March 31, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420 W 118th Street
A lecture by TRUDY JACOBSEN, an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Monash Asia Institute, on the Khmer Rouge's methods of torturing and targeting women during the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) in Cambodia.
Sponsored by Southeast Asian Student Initiative. For more information, contact: mb3120@columbia.edu
Bureaucracy, Knowledge, and Control: Governing Minorities in Turkey and Israel
Tuesday, March 31, 4:15-5:45pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by CEREN BELGE (Political Science, Harvard University) as part of the Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series. Moderated by George Gavrilis (International Relations, University of Texas at Austin).
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute (MEI).
Belief Matters: Reconceptualizing Belief and Its Use
A Graduate Conference
Thursday, April 2, 9am - 8pm
Sulzberger Towers, Barnard College
3009 Broadway
In recent decades, scholars of religion have attempted to shift attention away from belief and doctrine to practices, rituals identities and institutition. This focus has allowed scholars to recognize that "lived religion" is a multilayered and dynamic phenomenon, but it has kept them from examining other ways in which belief remains central to religious practices. By re-examining what it means to believe, this conference explores if and how belief matters.
Discussants include Courtney Bender, Mark C. Taylor, Penny Edgell, Joshua Dubler, Wayne Proudfoot and Zareena Grewal. Co-sponsored by the Religion Graduate Students Association at Columbia University.
Indonesia, Islam and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives
Thursday April 2 – Friday April 3, 2009, 9am-6pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street
Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority state in the world and underwent a successful transition to democracy in 1998. Panelists will reflect on the past ten years of the country's democratic experiment, in particular on the role of Islamic organizations in the democratic transition, the role of veto actors in the consolidation process, and the relationship between Islamic law and democratic institutions.
Presenters and Discussants include Alfred Stepan, Edward Aspinall, John Bowen, L. Carl Brown, Michael Buehler, Jose Casanova, Greg Fealy, Robert Hefner, Nadirsyah Hosen, Mirjam Künkler, Michael Laffan, Marcus Mietzner, Musda Mulia, Sidney Jones and Franz Magnis Suseno.
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University
CHARLES TAYLOR: The Politics of Recognition
Monday, April 6, 6:15-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street
A public lecture by Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and Templeton Prize-winning author of A Secular Age (2007). His talk is based on his Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences (CCAPRCD) in Quebec, which he co-chaired.
Co-Sponsored by the Heyman Center for Humanities; Center for the Study of Democracy, Tolerance; and the Committee on Global Thought.
Language Regimes and State-Building in Southeast Asia
Tuesday, April 7, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420W 118th Street
A lecture by AMY LIU (Emory University) on what part language plays in statebuilding and governments' tendency to share linguistic powers when the threat of state destabilization is high.
Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Student Initiative. For more information, contact: mb3120@columbia.edu
ASEAN and the USA: Moving Forward Amidst Crises
Wednesday, April 8, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420 W 118th Street
A lecture by SIMON C. TAY, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, on the future of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The talk will address its charter, economic community and relationship with the Obama administration as well as global priorities in human rights, environment and security.
Sponsored by Southeast Asian Student Initiative. For more information, contact: mb3120@columbia.edu
The Headscarf Ban and Women's Subjectivity in Turkey
Thursday, April 9, 4:15-5:45pm
International Affairs Building, Room 802
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by ZEYNEP AKBULUT KURU (University of Washington, Seattle) as part of the Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics Lecture Series. Moderated by Nadia Guessous (Anthropology, Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute (MEI).
When Democratization Radicalizes? The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey
Tuesday, April 14, 4:15-5:45pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street
A lecture by G. MURAT TEZCUR (Political Science, Loyola University) as part of the Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics Lecture Series. Moderated by Macartan Humphreys (Political Science, Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute (MEI).
PHILIP BOBBITT: The Market State and the New Masque of Terrorism
Thursday, April 16, 5-6:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
435 West 116th Street
A lecture by PHILIP BOBBITT, the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence and the Director of the Center for National Security at Columbia University. He has written extensively on constitutional law as well as international security and strategy in such works as The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History and, most recently, Terror and Consent.
Language Shift and Language Death in Island Southeast Asia
Monday, April 20, 12-2pm
International Affairs Buildingk, Room 918
420W 118th Street
A lecture with Professor James Collins, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University, on language shifts in Indonesia due to colonial genocide, natural disasters as well as complex socio-economic factors.
Sponsored by the Southeast Asian Student Initiative. For more information, contact: mb3120@columbia.edu
Their Moment in the Sun Indonesia's New Gangster Parliamentarians
Tuesday, April 21, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
420 W 118th Street
Loren Ryter, Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Michigan, on Indonesia's New Order, in which state-sactioned criminal groups were given license to control gambling, prostitution, drug distribution, and protection rackets in exchange for political support.
Sponsored by Southeast Asian Student Initiative. For more information, contact: mb3120@columbia.edu
PAUL AUSTER: Literature and Terror
Thursday, April 23, 6:30-8pm
Rennert Hall at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life
606 West 115th Street
A conversation with PAUL AUSTER, acclaimed novelist, essayist and translator. His many works include The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Brooklyn Follies and, most recently, Man in the Dark. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life.
Oscar Lee Symposium of Undergraduate East Asian Studies
Friday, April 24, 1-4pm
403 Kent Hall
1140 Amsterdam Avenue
An undergraduate interdisciplinary conference on East Asia. Panels include "Recovering the Individual: Contemporary Asian Art," "Soft Power in Asia," and "Rice and Steel: Urban Development in Northeast Asia." The Columbia East Asia Review (CEAR), an undergraduate peer-review academic journal, will also launch its second volume. To learn more about the conference, please visit www.eastasiasymposium.org.
Islam, Islamisms, and the West in a Global Context
Wednesday, April 29, 6:15-7:30pm
Common Room, Second Floor
Heyman Center for the Humanities
A lecture by AIJAZ AHMAD, a leading Marxist thinker and prominent commentator on South Asian politics, on global Islamist jihadi groups. He is Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Contemporary Studies in New Delhi and author of several books, including In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures.
Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Committe on Global Thought; and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
Common Ground: Science and Religion in Dialogue for a Sustainable Future
Sunday-Monday, May 3-4
Low Rotunda Columbia University
A two-day conference promoting a public dialogue between science and religion on environmental sustainability. Speakers include Jeffrey Sachs (Earth Institute), Wayne G. Ramsey (Fetzer Institute), James Hansen (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and other scholars, leaders, and activists. For more information: www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr
Sponsored by Center for the Study of Science and Religion and the Earth Institute at Columbia University with the Fetzer Institute.
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