IRCPL Events
Bampton Lectures in America: Irving Weissman
International Affairs Building Room 1501, 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United StatesThe 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...
Choreography of Sacred Space: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul Istanbul, TurkeyA 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...
Terry Eagleton: The New Atheism and the War on Terror
International Affairs Building Room 1501, 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United StatesA talk by Terry Eagleton, influential literary theorist and Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. He has written more than forty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), and, most recently, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009). Co-sponsored with the Heyman Center for the...