Religion in American War and Diplomacy: A History
Common Room Heyman Center for the HumanitiesPlease join us for a talk by Andrew Preston, Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and author of American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming); Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012); Nixon in the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (2008); The War Council: McGeorge...
Between State and Synagogue, The Secularization of Contemporary Israel: A Talk with Guy Ben-Porat
513 Fayerweather HallGuy Ben-Porat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy & Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His most recent publication is Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Contemporary Israel. A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious...
Abdou Filali-Ansary on Democratisation in Muslim Contexts: The Return to the Question of Legitimacy
Knox Hall, Room 403 606 West 122nd StreetMartin Seymour Lipset stressed, more than fifty years ago, that ‘prerequisites’ for democracy include economic development and political legitimacy. Since the beginning of the so called Arab Spring, aspects of political legitimacy dominate discussions, while economic development seems to have been put on the back burner, if not forgotten altogether....
Migrant Imaginaries: Religion on the Move in the African Diaspora
Knox Hall, Room 403 606 West 122nd StreetPlease join us for the opening conversation for the 2013 Religion Graduate Students Association Conference: The history of religion in the African diaspora is a history of movement. But what happens when religion is on the move? This panel will explore how an interdisciplinary approach to migratory experiences in the...
Wounds of Waziristan: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion
Lecture Hall, Journalism Building 3rd Floor 2950 Broadway, New York, United StatesPLEASE NOTE – The location of this event has changed. It will now take place at: Columbia Journalism School, 3rd Floor Lecture Room 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street) Wounds of Waziristan highlights the stories of those directly affected by drone attacks in Pakistan – in their own words. Since the drone...
Islamic Urbanism? Space, consumption, and development in Istanbul and Jakarta
Knox Hall, Room 403 606 West 122nd StreetRecent protests and upcoming elections have again raised the visibility of Turkey and Indonesia, and particularly their respective Muslim mega-cities, Istanbul and Jakarta, as locations seeing the rise of a new kind of Islamic urbanism, culture and politics. On the one hand, they are praised as shining examples in debates...
Heaven and Earth: Sacred Music from the Byzantine Greek and Slavic Eastern Orthodox Christian Traditions
Glicker Milstein Theatre 3009 Broadway, NY, United StatesSpirit and Sound: A Concert Series presents: Heaven and Earth: Sacred Music from the Byzantine Greek and Slavic Eastern Orthodox Christian Traditions Featuring performances by: Noted chanter Eleftherios Eleftheriadis of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Flushing, NY St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale, under the direction of Robin Freeman Followed by...
Religious Wars in Early Modern Europe and Contemporary Islam: Reflections, Patterns and Comparisons
Buell Hall, Maison Francaise 515 West 116th Street, NY, United StatesRecent developments in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, and elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia suggest growing sectarian antagonism as a major cause of violence in the region. Are we witnessing a civil war within the Islamic umma? If so, what are the causes of this conflict? How does the...
Mode d’Emploi – A Festival of Ideas
Lyon, FranceThis November, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life is co-sponsoring events within the Villa Gillet’s Mode d’Emploi festival. Four representatives from the IRCPL – Director Karen Barkey and Advisory Committee members Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Nadia Urbinati – will travel to Lyon, France to participate in...
Tomorrow is the Question: Afrofuturism, Sound, and Spirit
Union Theological Seminary Social Hall, 3041 Broadway, United StatesPLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION. This event will now take place at: Union Theological Seminary, Social Hall 3041 Broadway at 121st Street New York, NY 10027 Enter through UTS main doorway on West side of Broadway. Following the idea of a black radical tradition, African and African diasporic futurism refers to practices...
CANCELLED – Gish Amit – Ex-Libris – Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library: The Case of the Palestinian and Yemenite Looted Books
Knox Hall, Room 403 606 West 122nd StreetThis event has unfortunately been cancelled. Gish Amit has been involved in non-formal education for some twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa, and lectured in philosophy and critical theory at Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Amit is a co-author (with...
Mirjam Kunkler – Religious Actors in Democratization Processes
International Affairs Building Room 1501, 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United StatesWhat is the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of Muslim-majority countries? The only five countries categorized as democratic and free/partly free by Freedom House, the BTI and Polity IV as part of the Third and Fourth Waves of Democratization are Albania, Indonesia, Mali, Senegal and Turkey. The...