Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania

Co-moderators:
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Josef Sorett, Columbia University

Seating is limited. To RSVP, send email to: dwm2110@columbia.edu

A discussion with:

• Christopher Caldwell, senior editor at The Weekly Standard, columnist at the Financial Times, author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
• Adam Gopnik, writer for The New Yorker, author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages;
• Patrick Weil, visiting professor at Yale Law School, director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies, at the University of Paris 1, and author of How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789.
• Chaired by Peter Awn, professor of Islamic Religion and Comparative Religion and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

A cocktail reception with the speakers will follow. To attend the event, please RSVP to: mj2412@columbia.edu

Co-sponsored by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program, the American Foundation, and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

A talk by YOGENDRA YADAV, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Co-Director of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy. His research interests include modern Indian political thought and Indian socialism.

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

A discussion with Aqil Shah, current PhD in Political Science at Columbia University and Harvard Society of Fellows 2010-2012. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, and Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government.

PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A lecture by NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL, Visiting Professor at Princeton University and Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is author of Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (1999) and director of the Ford Foundation project Dialogue on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia.

The Annual Mary Keating Das Lecture co-sponsored with the South Asia Institute and Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A symposium on Jews and Native Americans, two peoples made into Others by Christian Euro-America in fascinatingly similar yet different ways: as remnants of primitivity, as tribal peoples, as enduring threats and unassimilable enemies, and as romanticized traditionals possessing the solution to the ills of modernity.

Directions: Enter at 116th Street (at Broadway or Amsterdam)
Enter building through Schermerhorn Hall; Follow signs when you enter to the elevators to the Symposium in 754 Schermerhorn Ext.

Co-sponsored with the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.

Schedule

8:30-9:00 am: Registration and light breakfast

9:00-9:15 am: Opening Remarks
Jeremy Dauber, Jonathan Schorsch

9:15-10:00 am: Jonathan Boyarin, excerpts from The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago, 2010)

10:10-11:45 am: Session I: Social Relations
Jonathan Boyarin, Christian Cwik, David Koffman, Michael Rom

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch (provided, on-site)

1:05-2:45 pm: Session II: Textual Relations
Sarah Casteel, Jennifer Glaser, Stephen Katz, Jack Kugelmass, Alan Mintz, Rachel Rubenstein

3:00-4:30 pm: Session III: Theopolitics
Christopher Bracken, James Hatley, Nimachia Hernandez, Akim Reinhardt, [R. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi]

4:45-5:30 pm Wrap-up conversation

Participants and Papers

• Boyarin, Jonathan (U. of North Carolina, Dept. of Religious Studies), “Trickster?s Children: Paul Radin, Stanley Diamond and Filiation in Anthropology.”
• Bracken, Chris (U. of Alberta), “When Indians were Jews: William Apess?s Racialized Concept of Right.”
• Casteel, Sarah Phillips (Carleton University), “Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary: Dorris and Erdrich’s /The Crown of Columbus /and Vizenor’s /The Heirs of Co-lumbus.”
• Cwik, Christian (History, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; University of Cologne, Germany), “Sephardic networks and the Guajira Peninsula Contraband in the 17th and 18th Centuries.”
• Glaser, Jennifer (Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati), “Sovereignty, Diaspora, and the Indigene in Michael Chabon?s The Yiddish Policeman?s Union.”
• Hatley, James (Department of Philosophy, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University), “Spider Woman Naming Adam Naming Spider Woman: Midrash as Storytelling as Midrash.”
• Hernandez, Nimachia (Independent Scholar), “Coming Home in America: Native American and Jew-ish Participation in the Making of a National Narrative.”
• Katz, Stephen (Indiana University, Jewish Studies Program), “A One-Sided Dialogue: Lisitzky?s Indian Poems.”
• Koffman, David (NYU, History), “Manifesting Jewish Destiny: Jews, Native Americans, and the Violent Frontier.”
• Kugelmass, Jack (U. of Florida-Gainesville, Dept. of Anthropology), “„Since I Saved You, You Belong to Me:? A Yiddish Pseudoethnographic Account of „Primitive Tribes and Civilized Communities? in Peru.”
• Mintz, Alan (JTS), “Three Constructions of the Native American in American Hebrew Poetry.”
• Reinhardt, Akim (History, Towson University), “Contested and Overlapping Notions of Indigenous-ness Among Jews and Indians.”
• Rom, Michael (U. of Toronto), “The Métis Messiah: Louis Riel and the Jews.”
• Rubinstein, Rachel (Hampshire, Jewish American Literature and Culture), “Tribes Lost and Found: Mestizaje and the Jewish Question.”
• Schachter-Shalomi, Rabbi Zalman (World Wisdom Chair, The Naropa Institute), “Jewish Dialogue with Native Americans.”

All the papers will be available at http://iijs.columbia.edu/WWOConference.php for reading.

A discussion with OUSMANE KANE, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A screening of My Father, My Lord (2007) and a discussion with Uri Cohen, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

A film series co-sponsored with the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College.

A prestigious group of over a dozen Iranian scholars, media entrepreneurs, and democratic activists will discuss the role of new forms of media in the pursuit of social change within Iran.  The forum will feature a series of talks in Low Library in the morning and interactive break-out sessions on various topics in the afternoon. For more information and registration, please visit: www.newgenerationforum.org

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

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Speakers Bios

Ali Afshari is a leading political activist from Iran who has championed the cause ofdemocracy for over a decade. Beginning with his involvement in 1995 with the Islamic Student Association (ISA) at Amir Kabir University, of which he was secretary for three years, Mr. Afshari organized numerous protests and demonstrations against the Iranian government’s repressive and often violent measures directed against reformist students and intellectuals. Through his work with the ISA’s Office to Foster Unity, he helped to mobilize Iranian civil society to vote for reform-minded candidates in the historic 1998 city council elections, the first such elections in Iranian history.

Masih Alinejad (by video) is a renowned Iranian journalist and writer. Masih is well known for her courageous criticism of Iranian authorities. She was a parliamentary reporter for ILNA and a journalist at Hambastegi Daily and Etemad Melli Daily. Several of her articles were followed by harsh criticism from conservative parties in Iran. In 2008, former Iranian head of parliament apologized after an article by Alinejad was published in Etemad Melli Daily on economic problems in Iran.

Maziar Bahari is an Iranian Canadian journalist, playwright and film maker. He is a reporter for Newsweek. Bahari graduated with a degree in communications from Concordia University in Montreal. He has produced a number of documentaries and news reports for Channel 4 and BBC on subjects as varied as Ayatollah Sistani, Muqtada al-Sadr and human rights in Iraq. A retrospective of Bahari’s films was organized in November 2007 by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Bahari was imprisoned by the Iranian government from June-October 2009 for covering the post-election protests.

Fariba Davoodi Mohajer is a journalist and human rights activist. She is the former member of the supreme council and head of women committee of Advare Tahkim-e Vahdat (The Organization for the Alumni of universities in the Islamic Iran) and at the same time she has served as the Secretary of the Union of Young Journalists, an inspector of the Organization of Defenders of Media and Press Freedoms in Iran and a board member & head of legal department of Female Journalists Association.

Nazila Fathi was born and raised in Iran. She did her undergraduate studies in Iran, in English Translation and started working with Western media as a translator and stringer since 1991. She did her graduate studies in political science and women’s studies at University of Toronto from 1999 to 2001. She was accredited as the New York Times Reporter since 2000 and was the only reporter for an American publication who lived consistently from 2001 until July 2009 in Iran. She also translated a book by Shirin Ebadi, The Documentation of Human Rights in Iran, from Persian into English. The book was published in 2000.

Mehdi Jalali is an Iranian journalist and political commentator. He has hosted four hundreds weekly TV shows in Persian language on the issues and events related to the Middle Eastern affairs. His area of expertise includes Islamic transitional societies, new media and communications as well as Islamic jurisprudence and Shiite clerical establishment. As a Regent and Chancellor scholar, Mehdi studied political science at Berkeley, and obtained MIA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. His concentration is international security policy and the Middle East.

Roozbeh Mirebrahimi is a notable Iranian Journalist and blogger.  He has written, as political editor and writer for several reformist newspapers including Jomhuriyat, Roozna and EtemadeMelli, Etemad, Hambastegi, and Sharq.  As a Hamlet-Hamnet international award winner from Human Rights Watch, he was among the first bloggers who were arrested and forced to confess in a show trial in September and October 2004. Roozbeh has written many books including Untolds of Revolution, Eslahat Zire Hasht (Reform Under Eight).  Currently as a visiting scholar at Arthur L.Carter Journalism Institute in NYU, he writes and appears in international media outlet on the topic related to Iran’s post-upheaval election.

Ali Mostashari, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Complex Adaptive Sociotechnological Systems (COMPASS) and an Associate Professor of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research is focused on the interactions between society and technology, including the impact of cyber-enabled mobilization on social movements in Iran. Prior to his academic career, he served as a strategic advisor to the Assistant Secretary General of UNDP for Africa. He has served as a commentator on BBC World Service and independent news media. He served as the Editor of the MIT Iran Analysis Quarterly (2002-2007) and was a co-founder of the Iranian Studies Group at MIT.

Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is the Founder of Tehran Bureau. She studied political science and writing in college, and emphasized international law in her coursework in law school, including two summers of residential studies in European law in Paris, France. She was admitted to practice law in California and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. She then moved to New York City and earned two masters degrees in journalism from Columbia University. Golnoush is on the board of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. She has reported for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, TIME Magazine, California Lawyer and PBS/Frontline, among others.

Trita Parsi, Ph.D. is founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian politics, and the balance of power in the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007), for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Iran Davar Ardalan is a civic journalist with decades of newsgathering and Executive leadership roles in Public Broadcasting.  From community engagement to innovative ways to engage the public online to news programming choices during a crisis, Ardalan was at the forefront of digital innovation at NPR News. Most recently, Ardalan was in charge of Weekend Edition, two of NPR’s most popular newsmagazines.

Mehdi Yahyanejad, Ph.D. is the founder of balatarin.com, one of the most central social media websites in the Persian language. In post-election upheaval balatarin.com has significantly served as the main source of cyber communication among Iranians both inside and outside the country.  Mehdi received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and served as a co-founder of the Iranian Studies Group at MIT.

The discipline that was once called “Oriental Studies” has been divided up in various ways in today’s university. This conference is concerned not with “the death of the discipline” as so many others have been, but rather with the diversity of the disciplines when it comes to studying the non-Western World.

Join us for student papers, two faculty discussion panels, and a keynote address by Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA. For more information, including a schedule, presentation abstracts and directions, see http://www.columbia.edu/~add2115/gradconf/

A talk by SENER AKTURK, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Reception to follow.

For more information, please contact Mucahit Bilici at mbilici@jjay.cuny.edu.

This talk is part of the Religion and Politics Lecture Series, which is co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A conversation and book signing with NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. He is co-author of the recent bestseller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009), copies of which will be on sale.  Moderated by Sheila Coronel, Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia Journalism School.

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

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A conference on the challenges faced by Muslim immigrants and their children in the process of integration in France and the United States.

Organized by Ousmane Kane (SIPA, Columbia) and Khadija Mohsen Finan (Science Po, Paris) with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Malika Zeghal, Rosemary Hicks, Mohamed Nimeir, Solenne Jouaneau, Ahmet Kuru, Louise Cainkar, Valerie Amiraux, Simona Tersigni, Ousmane Kane, Aminah Mohammed Arif, Hisham Aidi, Robert Lieberman, Mucahit Bilici, Mahamet Timera and Samim Akgonul.

Co-sponsored with Columbia University Seminar for the Study of Contemporary Africa; School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA); Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, & Religion (CDTR); Department of Religion at Barnard College; Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life (IRCPL); Middle East Institute; Institute of African Studies; Maison Française; The European Institute; Department of French & Romance Philology; Migration Working Group.

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A lecture and concert with Grammy-nominated Amjad Ali Khan, a maestro without peer in Indian classical music. Accompanied by his two sons, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, he will play some of his most popular songs with the sarod, a soulful string instrument.

Tickets for Lecture in Lerner Hall, 6-7PM
http://cuarts.com/calendar/view/type/4/event_id/5288

Tickets for Concert in Miller Theatre, 8-10PM
www.millertheatre.com

The most prominent politicians and intellectuals of the left in India will gather to discuss the role of the left in the future of a globalized India.

Speakers include Prabhat Patnaik, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Planning Board of the Indian state of Kerala), Sitaram Yechury (author of Saffron Brigade and columnist with Hindustan Times), C.P. Chandrasekhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University and co-author of Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia), Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Javeed Alam (author of Domination and Dissent, Who wants Democracy?), Sanjay Reddy (Barnard College and SIPA), Arjun Jayadev (University of Massachusetts), Anush Kapadia (Columbia University), and Akeel Bilgrami (Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University).

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Committee on Global Thought.

A graduate conference on how new media technologies have transformed the way people imagine and communicate with the divine.

Keynote speakers include BERNARD STIEGLER, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at Centre Georges-Pompidou, MARK C. TAYLOR, Chair of Religion at Columbia University, BRIAN LARKIN, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, and SAMUEL WEBER, Professor of German at Northwestern University.

Co-sponsored with Religion Graduate Students Association at Columbia University.

A discussion with AHMET KURU, Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University and author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey.

Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A discussion with Haroon Moghul, current PhD in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. Moderated by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Bachir Souleymane Diagne, Professor of French and Romance Philology

PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion with Al Jazeera Director General,  Wadah Khanfar, who transformed the single channel into a media network with multiple properties including Al Jazeera English.  Ranked as one of the most “Powerful People in the World” by Forbes Magazine, Khanfar began his career as a news correspondent in South Africa and later reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. One of his first mandates as managing director was to launch the Al Jazeera Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct in July 2004 at the First Al Jazeera International Forum.

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute and Columbia’s School of Journalism.

A screening of The Green Pastures (1936) and discussion with Josef Sorett, Professor of Religion.

A film series co-sponsored with the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College.

A discussion with Ajay Chaudhary, current PhD in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. Moderated by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion with MICHAEL BUEHLER, Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies 2008-10 at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Moderated by Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government.

Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A discussion with Iren Ozgur, 2009 PhD in Political Science at Oxford University. Moderated by Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology.

PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion with TARIQ MODOOD, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol and director of the Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

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

A discussion with JULIANE HAMMER, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at George Mason University and author of Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland (2005).

Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A screening of A Man Escaped (1956) and discussion with Joshua Dubler, Society of Fellows.

A film series co-sponsored with the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College.

A discussion with Emily Bech, current PhD in Political Science, Columbia University. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relationsm, and Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government.

PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion with FATMA GOCEK, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan and author of Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (2002) and Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change (1996).

Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

A conversation with GEORGE RUPP, president of the International Rescue Committee and former president of Columbia University as well as author of Globlization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (2006). Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion.

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A discussion of human-rights report by the Cairo Institute of Human Rights (CIHRS) and its implications for U.S. policy, with remarks from Bahey Eldin Hassan (General Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies), Jeremie Smith (Director, Geneva Office of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies), Radwan Ziadeh (Founding Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies).

In 2009, human rights in the Arab world have significantly deteriorated, prompting CIHRS to refer to the region as a “bastion of impunity.” The report points to increased suppression of political dissent and raises concerns about religious freedom, the deteriorating status of religious minorities and the tendency of regimes to align themselves with radical Islamists.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion and screening of “Heaven’s Taxi” and “Iran Zendan”, two feature films that address the political situation and treatment of prisoners in Iran since the 2009 presidential election.  Panelists include Daryush Shokof, Hasan Demicri, Taies Farzan, Vadim Glowna, Bahman Maghsoudlou, Mahnaz Talebitari, and Daryoush Zandi.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR).  Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Working Group at SIPA, the Human Rights Concentration at SIPA and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR).

A discussion with Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United Nations, on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons as a new resolution on the Iranian crisis is under discussion at the United Nations. Moderated by Richard Bulliet, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

To RSVP: mj2412@columbia.edu

Co-sponsored by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program; the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR); the Middle East Institute (MEI); the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the UN Studies Program.

“Western Responses to the Torture of Muslims”
4-5:30pm: Keynote address by Sherene Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is author of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics (2008) and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism (2004).

“The New Muslim Cool”
6-8pm: A screening of the film “The New Muslim Cool,” by Jennifer Taylor, with a discussion with Zaheer Ali (Columbia University). The film is about Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places. Please visit:
http://www.newmuslimcool.com

Co-sponsored with Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Middle East Institute; and the Institute of African Studies Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s Center for the Study of American Muslims George Mason University’s Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies.

Speakers: Can Paker (Chair, TESEV), Etyen Mahçupyan (Turkish/Armenian Journalist, former Editor in Chief of Agos), Dilek Kurban (Program Officer, TESEV), Henri Barkey, (Lehigh University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Zehra Arat (SUNY Purchase), Jeremy Walton (New York University).

Panels will address how questions related to identity, nation-state and citizenship are being reshaped from below and how the Turkish state responds to minority, ethnic and religious challenges to citizenship in Turkey.  They will also examine the role and limits of state institutions and civil society in responding to social pressure for change.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Turkish Studies, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Middle East Institute (MEI)

A conversation with DAVID SHIPLEY, op-ed editor at The New York Times. He also served in the Clinton Administration as Senior Presidential Speechwriter and was the executive editor of The New Republic Magazine. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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A presentation of the film Household Saints (1993) with a discussion by Elizabeth Castelli, Professor of Religion.

A film series sponsored by the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College

A workshop led by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, and Rajeev Bhargava, Director of the Center for Studies in Developing Societies (Delhi). Discussion will focus on the role of religion in India throughout its history, particiularly the dynamics of conflict and accommodation between Buddhists and conventional Vedic religion and among Saivas, Vaisnavas and Jains in ancient and medieval society.

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Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and the Heyman Center for the Humanities. For directions to the Heyman Center, click this link: http://heymancenter.org/visit.php

A discussion with CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT, Alliance Visiting Professor (Sciences Po-CERI, Paris), THOMAS BLOM HANSEN, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and RAJEEV BHARGAVA, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.

Co-sponsored with the Alliance Program; the South Asia Institute; the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures; and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
 

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A lecture by CHARLES TAYLOR, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize.

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Global Thought; Heyman Center for Humanities; Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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A discussion led by MARTA LAGOS, Director of Latin Barometer in Santiago, MARGARET CRAHAN, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, ALFRED STEPAN, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government. Participants also include John Burdick (Syracuse University), Timothy Steigenga (Florida Atlantic University), David Smilde (University of Georgia), Alejandro Natal (Interdisciplinary Program for Third Sector Studies, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico), and Diana Lima (Institute Universitário de Pesquisas do  Rio de Janeiro).

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Toleration, Democracy and Religion and the Institute for Latin American Studies.

Brown Bag Lecture Series presents a talk with Yakov Rabkin, Professor of History at University of Montreal and author of A Threat from Within: A History of Jewish Opposition of Zionism.

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute.

A conversation with JON MEACHAM, the editor of Newsweek magazine and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House as well as American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. Moderated by Randall Balmer, Professor of Religion.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
 

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A presentation of the film Ghostbusters (1984) with a discussion by Courtney Bender, Professor of Religion.

A film series sponsored by the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College.

A talk by JACK MILES, Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy and Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine. A MacArthur Fellow, he is winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography.

For directions to the Heyman Center, visit: http://heymancenter.org/visit.php

Co-sponsored with the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

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A conference in honor of B.R. AMBEDKAR, chief architect of the Indian constitution and Columbia alumnus. Participants include President Lee C. Bollinger; Vice President Nicholas B. Dirks; Gnana Alyosius; Masood Alam Falahi; Marc Galanter; Gopal Guru; Rajkumar Hans; Christophe Jaffrelot; Pratap Mehta; Smita Narula; Balmurli Natrajan; Gyan Pandey; Sudha Rani; Anupama Rao; Nat Roberts; Palanimuthu Sivakami; Jebaroja Singh; Anand Teltumbde; Gauri Viswanthan.

Co-sponsored with Center for Human Rights and Documentation; Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Culture; Institute for Social and Economic Research. Made possible by additional funding from the Dr. Ambedkar International Mission (AIM) Inc. U.S.A; Provost’s Office of Columbia University; Taraknath Das Foundation; and the US Department of Education.

For a full conference schedule, visit  the South Asia Institute’s site.

Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, which won a National Jewish Book Award and Germany’s Geiger Prize.

Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe
Tuesday, October 13, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707
420 W. 118th St.

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Jesus as Aryan Hero: The Peculiar Conversion of Christianity into National Socialism
Thusday, October 15, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707
420 W. 118th St.

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A talk by Abdallah Schleifer, Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo.

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute.

A conversation with JAMES TRAUB, who writes on politics and international affairs for The New York Times Magazine and has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and National Review. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations.

Read a review of the event at the Columbia Journalism School’s website.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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A lecture by Etienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine, on racism, nationalism and the plight of non-European immigrants in a newly unified Europe.

Co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise at Columbia University.

As part of the World Leaders Forum, internationally renowned artist Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of projects he has created in response to conflicts around the world. Following will be a conversation with Alfredo Jaar and Dean of the School of the Arts, Carol Becker.

For RSVP information, visit the World Leaders Forum site.

Co-sponsored by the School of the Arts and the World Leaders Forum.

A discussion with CHARLES TAYLOR, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize, ALAN MONTEFIORE, Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and EMMANUEL PICAVET, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Paris.

Co-sponsored by Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Alliance Program

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Schedule: Friday, Sept 25, 12-6pm, and Saturday, Sept 26, 10am-6pm

A conference on the multiple meanings of the new urban wars and the limits of power and of war. Discussions will focus on asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the “urban enemy,” cities and urban space as a technology for war, re-appropriating the city of fear, and civil war refugees and their flight from and to cities.

Speakers include Arjun Appadurai, Elazar Barkan, Ted Byfield, Partha Chatterjee, Tony Conrad, Susan Crile, Claire Cutler, Ashley Dawson, James Der Derian, Gar Smith (Environmentalists Against War), Yasmine Ergas, Karen Jacobsen, Fiona Jeffries, Danny Kaplan, Jennifer S. Light, Peter Marcuse, Suketu Mehta, Rosalind C. Morris, Les Roberts, Saskia Sassen, Jan Schneider, Richard Sennett, Jessica Stern, Ida Susser, Gediminas Urbonas, Sudhir Venkatesh, Eyal Weizman, Florian Schneider and Susanne Lang (Dictionary of War Project).

For more information, please visit http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_new_wars/

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Global Thought; Center for the Study of Human Rights; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; ISERP; Mailman School of Public Health; New York Theological Seminary.

A presentation of the film Wings of Desire (1987) directed by Wim Wenders with a discussion by Jonathan Schorsch, Professor of Religion.

A film series sponsored by the Religion Departments of Columbia University and Barnard College.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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

A Panel Discussion with Nilüfer Göle, Professor of Sociology at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and is author of The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling.

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Religion, Toleration and Democracy.

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.

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).

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).

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

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

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.

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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

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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.

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).

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

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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, ?ükrü Hanio?lu, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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).

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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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.

Co-Sponsored with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University.

• “Adult Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,” Wednesday, January 21, 5-7pm
   

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• “Cancer and Leukemia Stem Cells: A New Paradigm for Research, Diagnosis and Therapy,” Thursday, January 22, 5-7pm
   

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• “Embryonic and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Science and Medicine meet Politics and Religious Organizations,” Tuesday, January 27, 5-7pm
   

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• “Self and Nonself: Co-evolution of Stem Cells and Immunity and Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind,” Thursday, January 29, 5-7pm

Past Bampton Lectures

1948 – Arnold J. Toynbee: The Prospect of the West Civilization
1949 – Paul R. Hawley: New Discoveries and Their Effect
1950 – Charles H. Dodd: Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity
1951 – Lewis Mumford: Art and Technics
1952 – James B. Conant: Modern Science and Modern Man
1953 – Alan Gregg: Where Medecin Belongs Today
1954 – John Baillie: The Idea of Revelation in the Light of Recent Discussion
1955 – Lionello Venturi: Four Steps toward Modern Art
1956 – Joel H. Hilderbrand: Science in the Making
1957 – Brock Chisholm: The Expanding Conception of Health
1958 – Eric Lionel Mascall: The Importance of Being Human
1959 – Sir Anthony Frederick Blunt: The Art of William Blake
1960 – Detlev W. Bronk: The Status of Science in Modern Society
1961 – W. Barry Wood, Jr.: From Miasmas to Molecules
1962 – Paul Tillich: Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions
1963 – Northrop Frye: The Development of Shakespearean Romance
1964 – Fred Hoyle: Man and the Universe
1965 – Robert Hanna Felix: Mental Illness: A Yielding Enigma
1966 – Alasdair MacIntyre: The Dispute about God: Victorian Relevance and Contemporary Irrelevance
- Paul Ricoeur: Religion, Atheism and Faith
1968 – Sir John Summerson: Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation
1969 – Jaco Bronowski: Magic, Science and Civilization
1975 – Paul Ramsey: Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine
1976 – Symposium: Titian, His World and His Legacy
1980 – Symposium: Bernini and the Baroque
1982 – Anthony Kenny: Faith and Reason
1983 – Steven Weinberg: On the Art of Science
1984 – William Arrowsmith: Innovation and Tradition in Euripides
1986 – Zellig Harris: Language and Information
1987 – Peter Brown: Poverty and Power in the Later Roman Empire
1988 – Robert C. Gallo: Old Plagues and New Pandemics: Microbe Hunting Revised
1990 – Annemarie Schimmel: Yusuf’s Fragrant Shirt: Images in the Phenomenology of Islam
1991 – James Cahill: The Painter’s Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
2001 – Archbishop Demetrios: Saint John Chrysostom: Anthropological Insights for Our Times
2007 – Jonathan Riley Smith: The Crusades, Christianity and Islam
2009 – Irving Weissman: Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind

A conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the acclaimed Everything is Illuminated, which was adapted into a feature film directed by Liev Schreiber.

Moderated by Jenny Davidson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Copies of his book will be on sale courtesy of Book Culture.

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A talk by Riza Yildirim, Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Moderated by Ahmet T. Kuru, Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia University.

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy,

Toleration and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and Middle East Institute (MEI).

For more information: Ahmet Kuru: ak2840@columbia.edu

A public talk with Gail Omvedt, sociologist and author of Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals (2008). Dr. Omvedt has also worked actively with social movements in India, including the Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental movements, farmers’ movements and especially with rural women.

Co-sponsored with the Southern Asian Institute.

A book presentation by Gilles Kepel, Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. His book investigates the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explores the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West, one for which Europe, with its expanding and restless Muslim populations, may be the proving ground.

Moderated by Alfred Stepan, Co-Director of IRCPL.

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute and the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

A talk by Akif Kireççi, Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University, with Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at Columbia University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Middle East Institute.

For more information: Ahmet Kuru: ak2840@columbia.edu

A book presentation by Laurence Louër (Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po-CERI in Paris) and moderated by Gary Sick (Middle East Institute).

Co-sponsored with the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

A talk by Mucahit Bilici, Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College, with Taylor Carman, Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College.

Since the tragic events of 9/11, there has been an upsurge in ethnic comedy by Muslims in America. This talk will explore the landscape of Muslim ethnic comedy in the United States and its intricate relationship with Islamophobia.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

For more information: Ahmet Kuru: ak2840@columbia.edu

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and Templeton Prize-winning author of A Secular Age (2007).

What is Enchantment?
Monday, November 17, 8-10pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

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More on the web: read the ongoing discussion of Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age” at The Immanent Frame

Co-sponsored with Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR); Committee on Global Thought (CGT); and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

A public roundtable with Rajeev Bhargava (Center for the Study of Developing Societies), José Casanova (Georgetown University) and Alfred Stepan (Columbia University).

Co-sponsored with Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

“Turkey’s Role in Shaping the Future,” a World Leaders Forum program with keynote address by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey.

Hosted by Alan Brinkley, Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. Moderated by Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government. For more information, and to register, please visit www.worldleaders.columbia.edu

Co-sponsored with the School of International and Public
Affairs; the Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR); and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

A conference on India’s tradition of social peace and tolerance in public life, an example that demonstrates a successful democracy does not depend on the decline of religious belief in society.

Convened by Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, and Rajeev Bhargava, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, is Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.

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

A conference on the legacy of Edward Said’s work and its part in the larger phenomenon of Orientalism with regard to the question of Palestine and the Jewish question.

Includes lectures by Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, and Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

Co-sponsored with Middle East Institute (MEI).

To celebrate its inauguration, the Institute is hosting an afternoon of public lectures on religion in contemporary society with Salman Rushdie, Thomas Krens, Charles Taylor, and Orhan Pamuk.

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The Past and Future of Religion & Toleration (IRCPL Launch Event)
*Toleration Faculty Working Group with Charles Taylor, Emeritus Prof. of Philosophy
 

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SALMAN RUSHDIE in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan (IRCPL Launch Event)

* Opening Remarks by Lee C. Bollinger
* Introduction by ORHAN PAMUK
 

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As part of the series “New Evidence, 1400-1800,” a lecture with Jaime Lara, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University Divinity School, and José ardo Tomás, a member of the Department of History of Science at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Barcelona.

Co-sponsored with Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and of Religion; Institute for Latin American Studies; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

While distinctions between religious and secular activist media often seem self-evident, this panel asks what they might share. Panelists include Birgit Meyer (VU University Amsterdam), Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley) and Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina).

Co-sponsored with Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

Richard Locke, Professor of Writing at Columbia’s School of the Arts, in conversation with Philip Gourevitch, writer and editor of The Paris Review, on his most recent book Standard Operating Procedure, which he co-authored with filmmaker Errol Morris. The book and Morris’ film explore Abu Ghraib.

Copies of his books will be on sale courtesy of Book Culture.
 

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An open forum with Naz Modirzadeh, Senior Associate at Harvard School of Public Health, and Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

Organized by Lila Abu-Lughod, William B. Ransford Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies.

Co-sponsored with Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) and Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD).
 

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An open forum that addresses the limitations of current models of religious pluralism used in academic and political contexts.

Organized by Courtney Bender, Professor of Religion, the discussion culminates two years’ work by an interdisciplinary group and highlights some of the empirical and analytical issues that will appear in a forthcoming edited volume.

Historian and novelist Tariq Ali discusses his new book The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power with an introduction by Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology. Copies of the book will be on sale courtesy of Book Culture.

Co-sponsored with Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC).
 

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A talk by Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the German Federal Foreign Office.

Karsten D. Voigt asserts that religion, however, has more strongly, if subtly, shaped society and politics in Europe than meets the eye, and the process of secularization seems to have been reversed in recent years. He argues Germany is no exception to that. Europeans and Americans simply have different approaches to religion, which are influenced by their respective historical experiences.

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy,
Toleration and Religion (CDTR); the Institute for the Study of Europe
(ISE); the Council for European Studies at Columbia University;
Deutsches Haus at Columbia; and the German Consulate General New York.

A talk by Ali Bardakoglu, Professor of Theology and President of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs.

This talk will examine the Ottoman  millet system  and its ability to let the peaceful co-existence of tens of different cultural, ethnic,
and religious groups in the Ottoman Empire.

Prof. Bardakoglu is the President of Directorate of Religious Affairs which coordinates 70,000 mosques, in addition to other religious affairs in Turkey.

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy,
Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

Click here to watch video on Ebru Television.

A talk by Michael Buehler and Alfred C. Stepan. In recent years a growing number of districts in Indonesia have adopted shari’a laws. This has been interpreted as a sign for the growing influence of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesian politics after the demise of the military-backed dictatorship of President Suharto in 1998. Analyzing shari’a politics in Indonesia over the last 50 years, Michael Buehler will show in his talk that the recent implementation of Islamic laws, however, has non-fundamentalist origins. He will then provide possible answers for why this is the case.

Cosponsored with the Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Michael Buehler is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Click here to read paper.

The conference will explore how Senegal’s Sufi population has contributed to the country’s democratic development and culture. As part of the conference, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will present A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, an exhibition curated by the Fowler Museum at UCLA featuring Senegalese calligraphic art and murals as well as representations of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Sufi Mouride brotherhood.

Cosponsored with Institute of African Studies; the Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion; and the Comittee on Global Thought. Convened by Mamadou Diouf, the new Director of Columbia’s Institute for African Studies and Professor of History in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Denis Lacorne will discuss his new book De La Religion en Amerique: Essai d’histoire politique (2007), a comparative analysis of religion in America, which has received a popular and critical reception in France. An English translation is forthcoming.

Denis Lacorne is Director of Research at le Centre d’Etudes et de Recheches Internationales at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, where he is also a professor of comparative politics.

• Rise and Fall of American Secularism: Friday, March 28, noon–2 p.m., 80 Claremont, Room 101.

The current Turkish 1982 Constitution was written after the 1980 military coup and under great military-Kemalist influence. Some argue that amending the constitution will be the end of secularism. Others argue that the new constitution will be more democratic and will allow for the greater practice of religious freedom, such as the right of veiled women to attend public universities. The conference will investigate this sharp difference of opinion. Three key drafters of the constitution will discuss their proposed changes in the morning session. In the afternoon session, three specialists on comparative constitutions in democracies will respond. The day will conclude with a round-table discussion and questions.

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Religion, Toleration and Democracy and convened by Professor Alfred Stepan and Ahmet Kuru, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Democracy.

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The conference will investigate how some religions in conflict have collaborated on agreed access to major religious sites they all hold sacred. A number of sites in India, Morocco, Indonesia, and Palestine/Israel will serve as models for toleration.

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Human Rights, the Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, and the Institute for Historical Justice in Reconciliation in Salzburg, Austria and convened by Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs.

Click here to view paper abstracts.

Schedule Notes:
Day one: 9 a.m.–6:45 p.m.
Day two: 9:30 a.m–12:30 p.m

Rajeev Bhargava, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, is Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and the leading scholar on Indian secularism.

• Rehabilitating Secularism, Friday, February 8, 12–2 p.m., The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room.

• To be Secular or Not: How Should States Deal With Religious Diversity? Thursday, February 21, 12–2 p.m, Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1512.

Speaker series chaired by Jack Snyder, Professor of Political Science, in cooperation with Professor Alfred Stepan.

The series showcases research that addresses the role of religion in international relations:

• Peter Katzenstein: “Civilizational States, Secularisms and

Religions, Wed., January 23. Click here to read paper.

• Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: “Secularism and IR Theory,” Wed.,

January 30. Click here to read paper.

• Michael Barnett: “Religion, Humanitarianism and International

Relations,” Thurs., February 14. Click here to read paper.

• Daniel Philpott:”When God Means War, When God Means

Peace: Explaining the Wild Variation in Religious Politics,” Wed.,

April 9.  Click here to read paper.

• Daniel Nexon: “Religion and International Relations: No Leap

of Faith Required,” Tue. April 22.

• Monica Toft: “Hypotheses on Religion and War,” Wed. April 30. Read papers “Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War” and “Issue Indivisibility and Time Horizons as Rationalist Explanations for War.”

Cosponsored with the Political Science Department; the
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A conference on how some religions in conflict have collaborated on shared access to religious sites they hold sacred.  Negotiations over these sites in Turkey, North Africa, the Balkans and Palestine/Israel serve as models for toleration.

Co-sponsored by Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) at Columbia University.

Thursday May 6^th

14:00:  Greetings & Opening Remarks:  Professor Yesim Arat, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs

14:30 – 18:00 Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,

Chair, Karen Barkey

• Glenn Bowman, Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and the Middle East

• Anna Bigelow, Sacred Memories, Plural Realities: Remembering and Producing Shared Sacred Spaces

• Dionigi Albera, Religious antagonism and shared sanctuaries in Algeria

• Mete Hatay, Identity, Ethnic Conflict and Conflicted Heritage in Cyprus

Friday, May 7^th

9:00 – 11:15 Anatolia

Chair, Osman Kavala

• Robert Hayden, The Byzantine Mosque at Trilye: A Processual Analysis of Dominance, Sharing, Transformation and Tolerance

• Rabia Harmansah, Secularizing the Unsecularizable: A comparative study of the Haci Bektash Veli and the Mevlana Museums in Turkey

• Zerrin Ozlem Biner, Re-consolidating the borders between self and other and between self and the state: Ethnographic explorations of past memories and present struggles between Syrian Christians and Kurds at the margins of contemporary Turkey

• Tork Dalalyan, Kurds and the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia

11:30 – 13:00 Balkans

Chair, Arzu Ozturkmen

• Tijana Krstic, The Ambiguous Politics of “Ambiguous Sanctuaries”: F. Hasluck and Historiography on Syncretism and Conversion to Islam in 15^th - and 16^th-century Ottoman Empire

• Tolga Esmer, A Rebel, a Saint, and a Contested Shrine: The Türbe of the 16th Century Sheikh Bali Efendi

14:45-16:45 Palestine/Israel

Chair, Elazar Barkan

• Wendy Pullan, At the Boundaries of the Sacred, the Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Al-Wad Street

• Rassem Khamaisi, Conflict over Holy Sites in the City: Symptoms of the Conflict in Nature, Images and Type of the City

17:00 – 18:00 Roundtable Discussion

Speaker Biographies

Dionigi Albera is director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research and has been director of the Institute of Ethnology and Comparative Mediterranean since February 2006. He is also President of the Association of Mediterranean Anthropology and a board member of the Scientific Committee of the Museum of Civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean.  He received his PhD in Ethnology in 1995 at the University of Provence. His research areas include spatial mobility and social fluidity, forms of domestic organization, theoretical framework of an anthropology of complex societies, and mixing phenomena in the context of devotional monotheistic religions.

Ye?im Arat is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bo?aziçi University. Educated at Princeton and Yale Universities, she has been Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Middle East Studies; Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bo?aziçi University (1997-1999), and Visiting Scholar and Professor at different universities. His scholarly interests are in women’s political participation; problems of democratization; Turkish politics; gender-based violence and modes of resistance, and Islamist women in Turkish politics and the headscarf issue. Presently she teaches Gender and Politics, and other related subjects.

Elazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and the Director of its Human Rights Concentration as well as the Director of the University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He was the founding Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR). His research focuses on human rights, historical redress, conflict resolution, and reconciliation. His recent books include, The Rites of Return: The Failure of Minority Repatriation (with Howard Adelman, Columbia University Press 2011, forthcoming); Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with Alexander Karn, Stanford University Press, 2006); and Shared History – Divided Memory. Jews and Others in Soviet Occupied Poland, 1939-1941, (edited with Elizabeth A. Cole, and Kai Struve, 2008). A recent pertinent article: “Historians and Historical Reconciliation,” (AHR Forum) American Historical Review, (October 2009).

Karen Barkey is Professor of Sociology and History at Columbia University. Her main fields are Historical and Political Sociology. She studies Empires/Imperial Organization; Politics and Religion; Religious and Ethnic Toleration; The Politics of Sacred Sites. Her research focuses primarily on the Ottoman Empire, and recently on comparisons between Ottoman, Habsburg and Roman empires. Her first book, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (Cornell University Press, 1994), studies Ottoman strategies of control. It won the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book of the year in Social Science History, 1995 Social Science History Association. Her recent book, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008), is a comparative study of imperial organization and diversity. It won two awards: Barrington Moore Award: best book in the area of comparative/historical sociology 2009 American Sociological Association and the J. David Greenstone Award for the best book in politics and history 2009, American Political Science Association.

Anna Bigelow joined the faculty in Philosophy & Religious Studies at NCSU in fall 2004 as Assistant Professor and recently (2009) won the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. She received her MA from Columbia University and PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara where her focus was on South Asian Islam. Her book Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press 2010) focuses on a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Her current research, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is a comparative study of contested and cooperatively patronized multireligious sacred sites and the inter-religious dynamics that complicate or ameliorate these relations in plural democracies, namely India, Turkey, and Israel-Palestinian Territories.

Zerrin Özlem Biner studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at Koc University in Istanbul and at the Universities of London and Cambridge before obtaining her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Biner’s current research project is entitled “Imagined Cosmopolites of Mardin: An Ethnographic Study of Cosmopolitanism from the Margins of Contemporary Turkey.”

Glenn Bowman is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University of Kent. He taught in the Anthropology Department at University College London before coming to Kent in 1991 to join in starting up an interdisciplinary programme (Communications and Image Studies) concerned with issues of representation and its social and cultural contexts. When that programme terminated in 1998, he formally joined the Anthropology Department. Here he has launched the MA programme in the Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity and co-convened the MA in Visual Anthropology. Bowman is past Honorary Editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is on the editorial boards of Critique of Anthropology, Anthropological Theory and Focaal.

Tork Dalalyan received his PhD in Humanities from Yerevan State University and the Institute of Linguistics at National Academy of Sciences in Armenia in 2002.  He is currently involved with a project at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University called “Conception of “Eternal Capitals” – from Ancient Cosmopolitan Cities to Modern Megapolises” funded by the Open Society Institute, HESP ReSET program.  Tork is an Associate editor of “Aramazd” Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (AJNES).  His most recent publication is “Identity Processes among the Kurmanji-Speaking Population of Armenia” (in Russian) / New South Caucasus: to Reconsider Old Borders. Heinrich Böll Stifting, South Caucasus, 2008: 93-111.

Tolga U. Esmer recently submitted his dissertation at the Department of History at the University of Chicago in May 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he is beginning a unit in Ottoman and Turkish Graduate Studies. Dr. Esmer is a social and cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire, Balkans, and Middle East, and his research and teaching interests are in inter-confessional relations, borderland studies, comparative empire, micro-history and the history everyday-life, the history of social movements, and the history of violence. Dr. Esmer has lived in and undertaken extensive research in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Turkey.

Rabia Harmansah is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburg. She graduated from Hacettepe University in Ankara with a B.S. in Public Administration in 2000, and earned an M.S. in Middle East Studies from the Middle East Technical University in 2006. Her research interests include anthropology of religion, Islam and Orthodox Christianity, Mysticism-Sufism, religious practices, ethnic conflicts, nationalism, social landscape, collective memory, Cyprus, Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East.

Mete Hatay is Project Leader at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre, where he works on demography, migration, and Islam in Cyprus. He is the author of numerous articles and reports on identity, displacement, and the politics of demography. For the past two years, he has been conducting research on cultural heritage politics as part of a four-year EU-funded project on conflict and cultural heritage.

Robert M. Hayden is Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also Director of the Center for Russian & East European Studies. Professor Hayden has done extensive fieldwork in India, the Balkans and among the Seneca Iroquois of New York State, on various topics in legal and political anthropology. At present he is directing an international, multidisciplinary project on “Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites,” funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, with research conducted thus far in Bulgaria, India, Portugal and Turkey, and planned for Peru.

Osman Kavala took over the management of the Kavala Group of Companies in 1982 after the death of his father, Mehmet Kavala, and has since been working there as Vice-Chairman. The Kavala Group is active in real estate development, trading and mobile communications. He is currently the head of Turkish-Polish Business Council and a board member of the Foundation to Fight Soil Erosion (TEMA) and the Turkish chapter of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly. Mr. Kavala has served on the boards of various businesses and social organizations. He graduated from the department of economics of Manchester University after finishing Istanbul Robert Lycee.

Rassem Khamaisi is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. He is an Urban and Regional planner and Geographer, specializing in urban and rural geography.  The main focus of his efforts is towards geography and planning among the Arabs in Israel and the Palestinians in the Palestinians territory and Jerusalem, concentrating on public administration and participation and urban management. His publications in the field of policy research on urban planning and development in Jerusalem and among the Arabs in Israel include “The Wall of Annexation and Expansion: Its Impact on the Jerusalem Area” and, “The Impact of the Wall the Arabs In Israel.”

Tijana Kristic is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and is particularly interested in social, cultural and religious history of the early modern Ottoman and wider Mediterranean world. In this context, she specializes in relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, cultural encounter and mediation between Christendom and Islamdom, late Byzantine history, Ottoman-Venetian-Habsburg imperial rivalry, as well as subjects like Christian and Muslim mysticism and eschatology. She is currently working on a book that contextualizes Ottoman practices and narratives of conversion in a wider early modern Mediterranean framework.

Arzu Ozturkmen is Professor of History, Bo?aziçi University. Her areas of focus are Oral History and History of Emotions (Memory of Conflict), History of Performing Arts (National Celebrations, Dance History, Ottoman forms of performance), Folklore Studies and Black Sea Studies.  Professor Ozturkmen is a member of the American Folklore Society, a member of the Foundation of Turkish Economic and Social History, and the National Liason Officer of the International Council of Traditional Music.  Recent publications include “Muslim Women’s Folklore”, Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife (Eds) L. Locke, P.Greenhill & T. A. Vaughan, 2009, and  (With Joanna Bornat) “Oral History”, Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife (Eds) L. Locke, P.Greenhill & T. A. Vaughan, 2009.

Wendy Pullan is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge. She is Principal Investigator for ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’, a five year multidisciplinary and international research project supported by the Large Grant Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain (ESRC). She has published widely on urban issues, especially to do with Jerusalem and the Middle East. In 2006 Dr Pullan received the Royal Institute of British Architects’ inaugural President’s Award for University Led Research. She is a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge. For further information see: www.conflictincities.org.