DATES AND DEADLINES Call for Paper Abstracts: July 16, 2017 | Paper Submission: October 25, 2017 | Conference: December 6 – 7, 2017 CONFERENCE SUMMARY The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University is requesting paper proposals to present for its conference series “Pluralism…
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In addition to the incredible events that Dr. Batmanghelichi has helped organize this year, such as Surveillance and the Mosque and Intimacies Days I&III, Soraya has also published two new pieces of scholarship. First, as part of a book symposium, “A Letter to Foucault: Selectively Narrating the Stories of Secular Iranian Feminists“, she published a…
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The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University supports academic scholarship on the study of religion, broadly defined. We are proud of the interdisciplinary breadth of our work and are particularly excited to announce the results of our 2016 call for project and working group proposals. The awardees, from…
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Religion and the Vote: The Role of Faith in Modern American Elections Monday, October 17, 2016 More information about this event is available here. Featuring: Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania Robert P. Jones, PRRI, Author of The End of White Christian America Sarah Posner, Journalist, Author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican…
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On October 17, 2016, IRCPL and the Department of Political Science convened a panel of experts to discuss the role of religion in the 2016 elections. Participants included: Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania Robert P. Jones, PRRI, Author of The End of White Christian America Sarah Posner, Journalist, Author of God’s Profits: Faith,…
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The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life is now seeking proposals from Columbia University faculty for both working groups and programs that aim to understand the role of religion in the contemporary world and its historical roots. Proposals for faculty working groups as well as seminars, conferences, events, research and other…
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Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement Wednesday, September 21, 2016 More information on this event is available here. Featuring: Alastair Ager is Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. George Rupp is Columbia…
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Last week, Alastair Ager spoke for the IRCPL about his new book, Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement: Finding the Place of Religion in the Support of Displaced Communities, and was joined by George Rupp for the discussion. A video recording of the event is now available here.
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On November 5th, Students Organize for Syria, the IRCPL, and the Muslim Students Association hosted the Malek Jandali Trio performing a benefit concert for Syrian children. Revenues from the event were donated to Save the Children Syrian Fund, which will be used to support educational infrastructure for refugees and provide needed…
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Karen Barkey, of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University, and Christophe Jaffrelot, of the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po, have been awarded a grant within the Alliance Joint Projects in support of their project “Negotiating Pluralism in Shared Religious Sites: A Comparative Study of Coexistence in the…
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