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SPRING 2010 EVENTS
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Islamic Finance Symposium
Thursday, February 11, 5:30-9pm
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway

A symposium with opening remarks by Jeffery Sachs, Director of Earth Institute, and Deborah Spar, President of Barnard College. Panelists include consultant Amir A. Rahman, lawyer Umar Mughal, and Harvard's Chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser.

Co-sponsored by Muslim Student Association and Barnard Office of Career Development.

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Local Conflicts as a Global Challenge
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30-8pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street

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.

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

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Deciphering Denial: State, Modernity, and the 1915 Armenian Ethnic Cleansing
Tuesday, February 23, 4-6pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Who Belongs? Religion, National Identity and Immigrant Integration in Denmark and Sweden
Wednesday, February 24, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

A discussion with Emily Bech, current PhD in Political Science, Columbia University. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Ren�e 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).

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A Man Escaped: Religion on Film
Wednesday, February 24, 8pm
323 Milbank Hall
Broadway and W. 120th Street

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.

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Prayer as Politics: American Muslim Women, Religious Leadership, and Media Representations
Tuesday, March 9, 4-6pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Islamist Politics and Religious Education in Contemporary Turkey
Wednesday, March 10, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 210B
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Islam in Indonesia: Changing relations between the state and organized religion
Tuesday, March 23, 4-6pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Religions of Doubt: Critique of Religion and Modernity in the Frankfurt School and in Iran - Adorno, Benjamin, Shariati and al-e Ahmad
Wednesday, March 24, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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The Green Pastures: Religion on Film
Wednesday, March 24, 8pm
323 Milbank Hall
Broadway and W. 120th Street

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.

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Parliaments of Caliphs: Reconstructing Islamic Law in Alama Iqbal’s League of Muslim Nations
Wednesday, March 31, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey
Thursday, April 1, 6-8 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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The Challenges of Integration: Muslim Immigrants and Their Children in the United States and France
Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:30 am - 7:30 pm
1501 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street

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 Fran�aise; The European Institute; Department of French & Romance Philology; Migration Working Group.

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Divining the Message, Mediating the Divine
Thursday-Saturday, April 1-3, 9am-5pm
Buell Hall, Columbia University
515 West 116th Street

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.

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Nicholas D. Kristof: Covering Conflict
Monday, April 12, 6:30-8pm
Lecture Hall, Journalism Building, 3rd Floor
2950 Broadway

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.

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

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My Father, My Lord
Wednesday, April 21, 8pm
323 Milbank Hall
Broadway and W. 120th Street

A screening of My Father, My Lord (2007) and a discussion with Ur 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.

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Out of (Civilian) Control: The Pakistan Military and Politics in South Asian Perspective
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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 andRen�e 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).

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Religion, Ethnicity and Politics in West Africa: Senegal and Nigeria
Thursday, April 23, 4-6pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

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).

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Jews, Native Americans and the Western World Order
Sunday, April 25, 8am-5pm
Location TBD

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.

Organized by Jonathan Schorsch (Columbia) with Jonathan Boyarin (North Carolina), Chris Bracken (Alberta), Sarah Philips Casteel (Carleton), Christian Cwik (Cologne), Gelya Frank (Southern California), Jennifer Glaser (Cincinnati), James Hatley (Salisbury), Nimachia Hernandez (Harvard Divinity), Stephen Katz (Indiana), David Koffman (NYU), Jack Kugelmass (Florida-Gainesville), Rebecca Margolis (Ottawa), Alan Mintz (JTS), Akim Reinhardt (Towson), Michael Rom (Toronto), Rachel Rubinstein (Hampshire), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Naropa Institute), Sara Sutler-Cohen (Bellevue Community), Octaviana Trujillo (Northern Arizona) and Gerald Vizenor (New Mexico).

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

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No Longer Pakistani, Not Yet Indian: Migration and the Meaning of Citizenship
Monday, April 26, 4-5:30pm
Knox Hall, Room 208
606 West 122nd Street

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).

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A discussion with Yogendra Yadav
Wednesday, April 28, 4-5:30pm
Knox Hall, Room 509
606 West 122nd Street

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).

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Resolving Interpretive Differences in Islamic Lawmaking: Debates Between the Ulama and Modernist Muslims in Pakistan
Wednesday, May 5, 12-2pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
420 West 118th Street

A discussion with Tabinda Khan, current PhD Political Science at Columbia University. Moderator to be announced.

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


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