International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World

International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World

7. -9. May 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main
Campus Westend, Casino 1.801

Participants please register until April 26th with full name and address at: Islamic-world@normativeorders.net
http://www.normativeorders.net/de/component/content/article/346

The Conference:

In his last large collection of poems, which he entitled the "West-Eastern Divan", Johann Wolfgang Goethe, after whom our university is named, wrote the following lines:

Wer sich selbst und andere kennt, Wird auch hier erkennen: Orient und Okzident Sind nicht mehr zu trennen.

Those who know themselves and others Will realize here, too, That the Orient and the Occident Have become inseparable.

As researchers who are part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", we regard Goethe's approach as an incentive to look into our shared history and present, as well as into the development of normative orders in the Islamic world, in an interdisciplinary group of scholars - both Muslim and non-Muslim - from various countries of the Orient and Occident.

Programme:
Friday, 7.05.2010
15.00 registration
16.00 welcome addresses

Panel I: Entangled histories. From Averroes to Sayyed Qutb
17.00 Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University)
"Persecution and Norm, A comparative analysis between Averroes and Sayyed Qutb"
18.00 Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Reason and religion. The relationship among two competing normative concepts"

Saturday, 8.05.2010
Panel II: Shaping Islam in the West
10.00 Peter Scholz (Free University of Berlin)
"Characteristics of the Legal Framework for a European Islam"
11.00 Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University of Berlin)
"Gendered Islam under state surveillance"

Panel III: Reform Islam: Liberal and feminist approaches
14.00 Siti Musdah Mulia (Islamic University Jakarta)
"Reform Islam in Indonesia"
15.00 Susanne Schröter (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Islamic Feminism - a transnational movement"
16.00 Margot Badran (Georgetown University)
"Reformist women in early 20th century Egypt and lessons for the present"

Sunday, 9.05.2010
Panel IV: Islam, politics and the modern nation
10.00 Farish A. Noor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Political Contestation in Malaysia's Ethnic Setting: The Debate over the use of 'Allah' by Christians"
11.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zürich)
"Islamic family law and international legal norms in the Arab world"
12.00 Farid Esack (University of Johannesburg)

seminario: Paure del “diverso”. L’Europa e i Diritti Fondamentali (15-16 marzo, Università Bicocca, Milano)

Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Facoltà di Sociologia e Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
in collaborazione con
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Lunedì 15 e Martedì 16 Marzo 2010 Edificio U12 – Auditorium, Via Vizzola 5, 20126 Milano

Paure del “diverso”. L’Europa e i Diritti Fondamentali
Conferenza Internazionale In occasione della Settimana contro il Razzismo


“È vietata qualsiasi forma di discriminazione fondata, in particolare, sul sesso, la razza, il colore della pelle o l'origine etnica o sociale, le caratteristiche genetiche, la lingua, la religione o le convinzioni personali, le opinioni politiche o di qualsiasi altra natura, l'appartenenza ad una minoranza nazionale, il patrimonio, la nascita, gli handicap, l'età o le tendenze sessuali” (Carta dei Diritti Fondamentali dell’Unione Europea, art. 21).

La paura viene considerata come un sentimento connaturato nell’essere umano. Dichiarazioni universali e istituzioni servirebbero alla protezione e alla tutela di individui contro violenze e abusi perpetrate da altri esseri umani. La paura nei confronti dell’”altro”, si trasforma però spesso nella discriminazione verso il “diverso”.
Nel suo processo di costituzione politica, l’Unione Europea ha cercato di fondare la propria identità istituzionale e culturale sull’idea di un‘Europa rispettosa delle diversità ed insieme unita nel difenderle. Corrisponde tale immagine alla realtà dei fatti?
Nel presentare in Italia per la prima volta in ambito accademico l’Agenzia dell’Unione Europea per i Diritti Fondamentali (Fundamental Rights Agency - FRA), la conferenza si propone l’obiettivo di analizzare la natura e le cause della paura nei confronti del “diverso” in un’età globalizzata, in cui i problemi diventano sempre più comuni, tanto da dover essere affrontati responsabilmente insieme.

Lunedì, 15 Marzo 2010

1. L’Unione Europea: rispetto dei diritti e delle diversità La European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

Ore 10.00 – 13.00
Saluti di benvenuto
Marcello Fontanesi, Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Enzo Mingione, Preside della Facoltà di Sociologia
Giovanni Chiodi, Preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

Introduce: Marina Calloni (Vice-rappresentante per l’Italia al Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; membro del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Morten Kjaerum (Direttore della FRA, Vienna): Il ruolo della FRA nell’Unione Europea
Valentino Simonetti (Presidente del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; National Liaison Officer per la FRA in Italia; Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma): La FRA, gli organismi internazionali di monitoraggio dei diritti umani e le istituzioni italiane
Elena Paciotti (Rappresentante per l’Italia presso il Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; Fondazione Basso-Issoco, Roma): La FRA nella costituzione di un’Europa dei diritti

2. Tutela dei i Diritti, Società Civile e Ricerca
Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Giulio Enea Vigevani (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Elisabetta Lamarque (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca): I FRA Legal Experts
Udo Enwereuzor (Responsabile RAXEN; Cospe, Firenze): I FRA experts on RAacism, XEnophobia and related intolerances
Barbara Terenzi (Componente FRA Cooperation with Civil Society; Comitato per la Promozione e Protezione dei Diritti Umani, Roma): La Fundamental Rights Platform
Sandro Calvani (Direttore dell’United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, UNICRI,Torino): Il continuum tra diritti e sicurezza

4. Chi ha paura degli omo- e trans-sessuali?
Ore 16.00 – 17.00
Introduce: Laura Balbo (Università di Padova; International Association for the Study of Racism, Barcellona)

Matteo Bonini Baraldi (FRA, Vienna): Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU Member States. Presentazione del Report FRA 2009

Ore 17.00 – 18.30
Introduce: Giorgio Grossi (Direttore del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Enrico Vanni (Regista, Milano): “O sei uomo o sei donna... chiaro?”. Proiezione e discussione del docu-film

Martedì, 16 Marzo 2010

5. Diversità e Uguaglianze

Ore 9.45 – 10.30
Introduce: Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Valentina Anzoise, Andrea Kunkl, Stefano Marras, Cristiano Mutti, Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura, vigilanza e rappresentazioni dell'Altro. Analisi sociologiche e visuali

6. Discriminazione e immigrazione

Ore 10.30 – 12.00
Introduce: Carmen Leccardi (Delegata rettorale per le problematiche di genere e le Pari
Opportunità, Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Massimiliano Monnanni (Direttore dell’Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali - UNAR, Roma): Strategie dell’UNAR nella lotta alle discriminazioni
Marco Buemi (esperto, Roma): Progetti nazionali contro ogni discriminazione
Tiziana Vettor (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Stranieri di fronte al diritto


7. Insicurezza, sicurezza

Ore 12.00 – 13.30
Introduce: Bruno Nascimbene (Componente FRALEX Università di Milano)

Tullio Scovazzi (Università di Milano-Bicocca): La paura del terrorista
Paolo Bonetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Sicurezza, immigrazione, terrorismo: le sfide per le democrazie costituzionali
Khalid Chaouki (Associazione Minareti, Roma): Dalla paura al dialogo


8. Liberarsi dalla paura?

Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Tanja Sekuli? (Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Elena Pulcini (Università di Firenze): Paura dell’altro. Paura per il mondo
Salvatore Natoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Fenomenologie della paura
Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College, N.Y.): Paura e terrore


9. Curarsi della/ dalla paura?

Ore 16.00 – 17.30
Introduce: Adolfo Ceretti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Roberto Cornelli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Politica e paura
Tommaso Vitale (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura urbana
Virginio Colmegna (Casa della Carità, Milano): Sofferenza

Ore 17.30 – 18.00
Conclusioni e chiusura della conferenza


Organizzazione

Comitato promotore: Marina Calloni, Elisabetta Lamarque, Giulio Vigevani
Segreteria organizzativa: Irene Ottonello, Annalisa Stefani
Segreteria tecnica: Centro di Ricerca Visuale
Comunicazione: Ufficio Stampa - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Tel. 02-6448 6076; E-mail: ufficio.stampa@unimib.it
Per informazioni: irene.ottonello@unimib.it


La conferenza è organizzata:
- nell’ambito delle attività del progetto PRIN Immaginari politici dell’Occidente. L’Unione Europea come spazio delle opportunità o come fortezza?
- col sostegno del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale e del Dipartimento Giuridico delle Istituzioni Nazionali ed Europee
- grazie alla casa editrice UTET
- per aver messo a disposizione alcune immagini tratte dall’opera Diritti Umani e in collaborazione con la rivista Reset

Tutte/i sono invitate/i a partecipare

Seminario: Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter les 25-27 mars prochains au colloque intitulé :
«Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization».
Adresse: CERI, 56 rue Jacob - 75006 Paris

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de : reunion@ceri-sciences-po.org avant le 18 mars

Giornata di studio sul Concilio Vaticano II (11 marzo, Università Cattolica, Milano)

Editrice Vita e Pensiero, Dipartimento di Scienze Religiose Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in collaborazione con la Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale

Giornata di studio sul Concilio Vaticano II
in occasione della pubblicazione di:
JOHN W. O’MALLEY "Che cosa è successonel Vaticano II", Vita e Pensiero, 2010

Aula Pio XI - Giovedì 11 marzo 2010, ore 9.30
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - 20123 Milano

Sessione mattutina
presiede Luigi Franco Pizzolato [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 9.30
Introduzione ai lavori Gian Luca Potestà [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 9.45
John O’Malley [Georgetown University, Washington] Che cosa è successo nel Vaticano II. Continuità e riforma nella Tradizione della Chiesa
ore 10.30
Gilles Routhier [Université Laval, Québec] La recezione del Concilio. Mentalità, attori e tempi di un percorso laborioso
ore 11.15 Pausa caffè
ore 11.30
Enzo Bianchi [Monastero di Bose] Concilio e postconcilio in Italia
ore 12.15 Dibattito
ore 13.00 Pausa pranzo

Sessione pomeridiana
presiede
Gian Luca Potestà [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 15.00
Franco Giulio Brambilla [Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano] Il Vaticano II, ‘bussola’ per la Chiesa nel mare aperto di questo tempo
ore 15.45
Silvano Maggiani [Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Marianum, Roma] La riforma liturgica: acquisizioni e incompiutezze
ore 16.30
Pietro Bovati [Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Roma] La Bibbia: il ‘grande codice’ nella vita della Chiesa postconciliare?
ore 17.15 Dibattito e conclusioni

Partecipazione libera
Informazioni: Ufficio Stampa Vita e Pensiero Tel. 02 7234.2259 ufficiostampa.vp@unicatt.it

Seminario: 'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'

'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'

-- Professor John Sidel, Department of Government, LSE

The study of religion includes a rich literature on intolerance and persecution of religious deviance in Christianity, but very little in the context of Islam.
This lacuna is especially striking and unfortunate, given the prevalent perceptions in the West of Islam as a faith which is particularly strict in its interpretation
and application of religious doctrine. Against this backdrop, Professor Sidel's lecture is intended to subject patterns of religious intolerance and persecution
within Islam to comparative analysis and theoretical illumination, situating the case of attacks on Ahmadiyya communities and 'deviant sects' (aliran sesat)
in Indonesia since 2005 against a broader history of religious violence in the country and beyond.

The seminar will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE


(Find the ‘J’ building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)

Seminario: La discrimination dans l’emploi à raison de la religion existe-t-elle en France? Une étude expérimentale

Mardi 9 mars 2010

17h – 19h

CERI
Salle du RDC
56, rue Jacob – 75006 Paris




« La discrimination dans l’emploi à raison de la religion existe-t-elle en France? Une étude expérimentale »

par

David Laitin (Stanford University) et Éric Cédiey (ISM-CORUM)


Discussion : Valérie Amiraux (Université de Montréal)

La séance sera présidée par Daniel Sabbagh (Sciences Po/CERI)



David Laitin est professeur invité à Sciences Po dans le cadre du programme « Égalité des chances » de Sciences Po et la French-American Foundation (New York). Avec Claire Adida et Marie-Anne Valfort, il est l’auteur du texte « Les musulmans en France sont-ils les laissés pour compte de l’intégration ? », à paraître le 22 mars. Pour en obtenir un exemplaire, s’adresser à Ioanna Kohler (ikohler@frenchamerican.org).

Responsables scientifiques : gwenaele.calves@free.fr; sabbagh@ceri-sciences-po.org

Seminario: La transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes

Mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 19 h 30
La transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes

À l'occasion de la parution de l'ouvrage de Séverine Mathieu, aux éditions de l’Atelier (2009)
Avec la participation de Séverine Mathieu, docteur en sociologie, professeur agrégée de sciences sociales à l’École pratique des hautes études et membre du Groupe sociétés, religions, laïcités (GSRL-UMR 8582, EPHE-CNRS) ; Pauline Bebe, rabbin, Nicole Lapierre, sociologue (sous réserve) et Rosette Tama, psychanalyste
Rencontre animée par Catherine Coroller, journaliste à Libération


Que transmet-on lorsqu’on est juif, que l’on ne pratique pas, que l’on partage sa vie et que l’on élève des enfants avec un conjoint non juif ? Comment ce dernier perçoit-il et vit-il le judaïsme de l’autre ? Circoncire ou ne pas circoncire ? Quelle cuisine prépare-t-on ? Les résultats de l’enquête sociologique menée par l’auteur montrent que les deux conjoints, juif et non juif, homme ou femme, souhaitent transmettre un judaïsme qui ne soit pas seulement une religion. Ce faisant, ces personnes mettent en œuvre des «opérations de bricolage» individuelles, en réinventant des espaces, symboliques ou réels, pour donner corps à leur identité et à leur mémoire. Elles transmettent ainsi un judaïsme qu’elles pourront qualifier de « culturel ». Souvent, ce désir de revendiquer une identité juive est intimement lié à la Shoah.
Outre ses recherches sur la transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes, l’auteur travaille sur divers thèmes liés aux questions de laïcité.

Seminario: Re-emergence of religion as a social force in Europe?

Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?
Venue: The Møller Centre, Cambridge, UK
4 June 2010, 9:30am to 4:30pm

http://www.relemerge.org/

Cost: £68 (including refreshments and lunch)

This conference presents the key findings from Relemerge, an international academic research programme funded by NORFACE. The aim of the programme, which ran from 2007 to 2010, was to probe the current condition of religion in Europe against the background of European secularism and the re-kindling of religious activity brought about by the political and social changes in Europe of the past thirty years. The ten innovative and methodologically varied projects have looked at the
significance of religion in contemporary social life and explored the social and cultural impacts of recent religious growth points, such as Pentecostalism and Islam. We invite you to join us for what promises to be a lively debate marking the end of the programme.

The Ten Projects:
What are the Impacts of Religious Diversity? Regions in Three European Countries Compared
Professor Volkhard Krech, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

The Architecture of Contemporary Religious Transmission
Professor Roger Hewitt, Goldsmiths, UK

Ethnic Relations and Religious Mobilisation of Muslims in Europe
Professor Karen Phalet, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Extending and Enhancing the ISSP 2008 Module on Religion
Professor David Voas, University of Manchester, UK

Gender, Nation and Religious Diversity in Force at European Pilgrimage Sites
Professor Willy Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

REM - Religion, Euroskepticism and the Media
Professor Claes De Vrees, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

'Recognizing Christianity': How African Immigrants Redefine the European Religious Heritage
Professor Ramon Sarró, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Religious Sources of Solidarity in Europe
Professor Peer Scheepers, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Transnational Nigerian-Initiated Pentecostal Churches, Networks and Believers in Three Northern Countries
Professor André Droogers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Emergence of Islamic Fashion as a Social Force in Europe
Professor Annelies Moors, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

For further information and to book a place please email: c.bates@gold.ac.uk

Scientific Co-ordinator: Professor Roger Hewitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

Seminario: Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam

Thursday, 4 March will take place the Forum on Religion Seminar on:

'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'

-- Professor John Sidel, Department of Government, LSE

The study of religion includes a rich literature on intolerance and persecution of religious deviance in Christianity, but very little in the context of Islam. This lacuna is especially striking and unfortunate, given the prevalent perceptions in the West of Islam as a faith which is particularly strict in its interpretation and application of religious doctrine. Against this backdrop, Professor Sidel's lecture is intended to subject patterns of religious intolerance and persecution within Islam to comparative analysis and theoretical illumination, situating the case of attacks on Ahmadiyya communities and 'deviant sects' (aliran sesat) in Indonesia since 2005 against a broader history of religious violence in the country and beyond.

The seminar will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE

Seminario: Quelle République pour quel Islam?

Collège de France e IISMM organizzano:

CYCLE DE CONFÉRENCES PUBLIQUES
Iran - Pakistan - Afghanistan : au coeur du conflit régional ?

QUELLE RÉPUBLIQUE POUR QUEL ISLAM ?LES RENOUVEAUX SUNNITES EN IRAN ET LEURS ENJEUX GEOSTRATEGIQUES
Stéphane Dudoignon- Chargé de recherche CNRS/CHDT-EHESS

Mardi 2 mars 2010; 18h00-20h00 EHESS, Amphithéâtre, 105 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris. Entrée libre

L’Iran est depuis les années 1930 le théâtre d’importants renouveaux sunnites. Démographiquement minoritaire et cantonné dans les régions périphériques du pays, de peuplement en grande partie non persan, le sunnisme iranien est également réduit depuis 1979 à une situation de « minorité sans statut ». Tirant profit du cadre institutionnel de la République islamique, les religieux sunnites d’Iran ont bien tenté de promouvoir une identité sunnite iranienne à l’échelle du pays. Toutefois, leur échec à obtenir une vraie reconnaissance politique puis les efforts de l’administration Ahmadinejhad pour contrôler leurs institutions ont suscité depuis 2007 un essor spectaculaire de la violence interconfessionnelle. La République islamique semble ne savoir que faire de renouveaux sunnites qui constituent à la fois un facteur d’intégration nationale des groupes ethniques les plus divers, ainsi qu’un vecteur d’influence iranienne au-delà des frontières de l’Iran, mais aussi un défi politique frontal : car que faire d’un sunnisme iranien politisé, aussi profondément antioccidental que la République islamique elle-même, mais niant les
principes mêmes d’une constitution iranienne marquée du sceau de la pensée chiite relue et corrigée par Ruhollah Khomeyni ?

Cults and crime

INFORM Seminar XLIV

CULTS AND CRIME

London School of Economics, Saturday 24 April 2010

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm

To register: post cheque to Inform, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. (Inform@lse.ac.uk; 020 7955 7654).

Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 7 April 2010 cost £38 each (£18 students/unwaged). NB. Tickets booked after 7 April 2010 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).


Provisional Programme:

9.30 - 10.00: Registration

10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction

10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform)
"Be it a Crime if I Believe?"

10.35 - 11.00: Annie Yang (A Falun Gong practitioner)
"The Persecution of Falun Gong in China: A Personal Experience of 'Re-Education'"

11.00 - 11.25: Coffee

11.25 - 11.50: Jack Kreindler (Former member, World of Yaad)
Title to be confirmed

11.50 - 12.15: Ian Toon (Metropolitan Police)
"Nrms, a police perspective"

12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions

12.50 - 13.50: Lunch

13.50 - 14.15: François Bellanger (Lawyer, Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and President of the Swiss Information Center on Beliefs)
"Cults and crime from a legal perspective"

14.15 - 14.40: Michael Langone (Executive Director, International Cultic Studies Association, USA)
"Cultic crimes in North America Part 1"

14.40 - 15.05: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada)
"Cultic crimes in North America Part 2"

15.05 - 15.30: Tea

15.30 - 15.55: Henri de Cordes (President, Information & Advice Center on Harmful Sectarian Organizations, Belgium)
"The 74 corpses of the Solar Temple Order : Sacrifice, Suicide or Crime?"

15.55 - 16.20: Jean La Fontaine (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Honorary Research Fellow, Inform)
"Ritual murder?"

16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion



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Also note the upcoming Forum on Religion seminar series at the LSE, in association with Inform.
For more about the Forum on Religion, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/religionForum/


Forum seminars take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE
(Find the 'J' building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)

4 March -- 'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'
-- John Sidel, Department of Government, LSE
The study of religion includes a rich literature on intolerance and persecution of religious deviance in Christianity, but very little in the context of Islam.
This lacuna is especially striking and unfortunate, given the prevalent perceptions in the West of Islam as a faith which is particularly strict in its interpretation
and application of religious doctrine. Against this backdrop, Professor Sidel's lecture is intended to subject patterns of religious intolerance and persecution
within Islam to comparative analysis and theoretical illumination, situating the case of attacks on Ahmadiyya communities and 'deviant sects' (aliran sesat)
in Indonesia since 2005 against a broader history of religious violence in the country and beyond.

NEXT FORUM ON RELIGION SEMINARS:

6 May -- Seminar on Muslim identities: Muslim identity in the British educational landscape, and Bosnian Muslim identity in integration patterns in New England
3 June -- Seminar on religion, immigration and the far right: the cases of Greece and Britain


Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComplianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm

Le mouvement Vert en Iran : une Republique contre une autre ?

Le mouvement Vert en Iran : une Republique contre une autre ?

Conference de :

- Fariba ADELKHAH, Sc.Politique, CERI.
- Bernard HOURCADE, CNRS, Laboratoire "Monde iranien" (Ivry)

Le jeudi 18 fevrier 2010 de 10h à 13h, salle 221 dans le cadre du programme GSRL Islam, politiques et sociétés du site Pouchet

Adresse du GSRL (Laboratoire CNRS-EPHE)
59, rue Pouchet - 75017 Paris -
Métro : Brochant ou Guy Môcquet. Bus : 66 station "La Joncquière"

Venez nombreux !

Seminario: L'immigration et l'identité française

Séminaire Débat
L’immigration et l’identité française

avec Catherine de Wenden, Directeur de recherche, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po

Jeudi, 18 Février 2010 19h00-20h30
Lieu: Plateforme de Paris 22, Rue de Turin (75008 Paris, code: 2530)

Seminars: Islam and religious freedom

Witherspoon Institute

ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SEMINAR

July 25 – 30, 2010 in Princeton, NJ



Seminar Overview
What is religious freedom?
Is religious freedom essential for or inimical to Islam?
What are the implications of religious freedom for individual fidelity and for faith communities?
What do the Quran, Hadith, and Muslim scholars – past and present— say about religious freedom?



The Islam and Religious Freedom Seminar is a week-long program for graduate students and professionals in Islam-related fields of study and work. In a small seminar setting, led by scholars, religious leaders, and experienced policy makers, participants will explore the intersection of Islam and religious freedom. This will include Muslim perspectives on faith and religious freedom, U.S. government policies on religious freedom abroad, modern social science research about the relationship of religious freedom to societal and individual well being, and perspectives on religious freedom in philosophy and among other faiths. The seminar will address religious freedom issues facing Muslim minorities, Muslim dissenters in Muslim-majority areas, and non-Muslims living in Muslim-majority areas. Also we will consider proselytization, conversion, apostasy, and blasphemy. Participation in the seminar will include completing preparatory reading, attending lectures, and participation in discussions.


Seminar Director: Jennifer Bryson, Director, Islam and Civil Society Project, The Witherspoon Institute
Seminar Leaders:
· Thomas Farr, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
· Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne
· Asma Uddin, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Guest Speakers:
· Abdullah bin Hamid Ali, Zaytuna Institute
· Robert George, Princeton University
· Paul Marshall, Hudson Institute

Location and Accommodations

The seminar will take place July 25-30, 2010 on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Participants will reside and eat on campus; halal meals will be available.


Application
The seminar is open to graduate students or professionals in Islam-related fields. If accepted, a seminar registration fee -- $100 for students, $300 for non-students -- will be required. The seminar will provide room, board, and seminar materials. Travel expenses are not included. A limited number of travel scholarships will be available. To apply, please send the following by April 1, 2010 via e-mail to islamproject@winst.org. Applicants can expect to be notified of admission decisions no later than April 15, 2010.

1. A 500-word letter explaining your interests and experience related to the seminar topic.

2. Resume, including full name, dates of graduation, postal address, e-mail, and phone number.

3. A recommendation from a professor or supervisor.


Seminar website:
http://www.winst.org/ethics_and_university/seminars/islam/index.php

Seminario: The future of religion: six sociological narratives

Conférence-débat
Jim Spickard, Professeur de sociologie, Université de Redlands
“The Future of religion : six sociological narratives”
« L’avenir de la religion : six récits sociologiques »

Mercredi 10 février (19h-21h) à l'Institut européen en sciences des religions (IESR-EPHE)
14 rue Ernest Cresson (porte cochère gauche), Paris 14e (Entrée libre)

Les théories actuelles en sociologie des religions, depuis les années 1960 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, ont donné lieu à un certain nombre de pronostics sur l’avenir de la religion dans les sociétés contemporaines qui varient fortement en fonction du
modèle interprétatif auxquelles ces théories ont recours. En reprenant les principales tendances, Jim Spickard, Professeur de sociologie à l’Université de Redlands (Californie), a conçu six scénarios relatifs à l’évolution du religieux qu’il qualifie de « récits » ou d’» histoires » plutôt que de « théories » ou de « paradigmes » ; il entend ainsi redonner tout son poids au rôle de l’imagination dans la production des modèles sociologiques.
Ces six grands récits sont les suivants : la sécularisation, la montée du fondamentalisme, le changement des formes d’organisation du religieux, la prégnance d’un individualisme religieux, la compétition entre des marchés religieux, et enfin, récit le plus récent, la religion dans le contexte de la mondialisation.
Le professeur Jim Spickard sʹexprimera en anglais (mais on pourra lui poser des questions en français

Seminario: The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain 1974-2007

SEMINAR: 5 March 2010
The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain 1974-2007:
comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities

FIRST RESEARCH FINDINGS
This seminar will report on the first comparative research project examining the impact of counter-terrorism on Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain. This ESRC-funded collaborative research involves academics based at London Metropolitan University and City University, London, with a long track-record of researching immigration, social cohesion, Islam, and the media.

The study investigated transformations over time in the perception, construction and representation of religio-ethnic groupings as 'suspect' in relation to terror threats in Britain from 1970s to the present day.
The project examined the similarities and differences in the impact of these representations of 'suspectness' and of counter-terrorism measures on Irish communities and Muslim communities. The research methods included analysis of the national and diaspora press, of legislation and parliamentary debates, and speeches and statements of British politicians and the police. The experiences and interpretations of members and representatives of Irish communities and Muslim communities in Birmingham and London were also collected using key informant interviews and discussion groups.

SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
10.30 Arrival, registration, tea and coffee
11.00 Welcome and introduction
11.15 Overview of the Project & First Findings
Prof. Mary Hickman (project director, ISET)
Chair: tbc.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 'Suspect' Communities and the British Press
Dr Lyn Thomas and Dr Henri Nickels (ISET)
Chair: tbc.
14.40 Comfort Break
14.50 Security and Counter-terrorism: Policies and Policy Actors
Dr Sara Silvestri (City University, London)
Chair: tbc
16.00 Close

To be held at the Institute for the Study of European Transformations,
London Metropolitan University

NOTE: Registration is free but places are limited and allocated on a first come basis
To register please email: suspectcommunities@londonmet.ac.uk

For further details about the research and the seminar please follow link below:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/esrc-suspect-communities.cfm

ESRC RES-062-23-1066

IIncontri presso Institute for religion, culture and public life

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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Seminario: Le adolescenti della migrazione e la società Italiana

I seminari di ABCD - Centro Interdipartimentale per lo Studio dei Problemi di Genere

“Le adolescenti della migrazione e la società Italiana”
Martedì 16 febbraio 2010
Ore 15:00
Aula Pagani – edificio U7— 3° piano
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale

Partecipano:
Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti—Scrittrice, giornalista Corriere della Sera
Graziella Favaro—Centro COME
Carmen Leccardi—Direttrice scientifica del Centro ABCD
Susanna Mantovani—Prorettore, Università Milano Bicocca
Mara Tognetti—Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale

Per Informazioni : Doriana Galli (doriana.galli@unimib.it) Tel. 02 6448/ 7576-7520
ABCD - Centro Interdipartimentale per lo Studio dei Problemi di Genere
Edificio U7 2 piano stanza 2008 C—centrointerdip.abcd@unimib.it Apertura ufficio : lunedi e giovedì ore 13.00-17.00

Islam, politica e società

Dans le cadre du programme GSRL "Islam, politiques et sociétés", nous organisons une conférence sur le site Pouchet le jeudi 18 février 2010 de 10h à 13h, salle 221.
Cette conférence portera sur : "Le mouvement Vert en Iran : une République contre une autre ?".

Les intervenants seront :
Fariba ADELKHAH, Sc.Politique, CERI. et Bernard HOURCADE, CNRS, Laboratoire "Monde iranien" (Ivry)

Seminario Ebraismo e Cristianesimo (Parigi)

Organisé en partenariat entre le Collège des Bernardins et l’Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Wiesel
Un séminaire de recherche sur les sources des deux grandes familles spirituelles bibliques judaïsme et christianisme, fondé sur un travail d’enquête et d’approfondissement, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire, intégrant critique historique, réflexion philosophique, analyse documentaire et littéraire des textes juifs et chrétiens, élucidation du cadre historique de la naissance et du développement de ces sources de pensée.

Le séminaire est destiné principalement à des chercheurs, des doctorants ou des étudiants de niveau master.
Quatre séances sont prévues pour février – mai 2010 (environ une séance par mois) et sept séances pour l’année universitaire 2010/2011. Des tables rondes, des soirées et des leçons sont prévues pour le grand public.
Un colloque universitaire aura lieu au courant de l’année universitaire 2011-2012 suivi de la publication des actes du colloque.

Le séminaire abordera le thème majeur de l’altérité et du rapport à l’autre, dans les pensées juive et chrétienne ; rapport homme-femme, rapport au prochain, à l’étranger, à l’esclave, à l’ennemi, à l’hérétique, rapport homme animal,avec l’analyse de textes des deux traditions juive et chrétienne, aussi bien anciens (Bible hébraïque, Evangile, Midrach, Talmud, Pères de l’Eglise) que modernes.

Les deux premières séances :
1. Jeudi 11 février 2010 de 17h à 19h au Collège des Bernardins (20 rue de Poissy 75005 Paris)

Anne-Marie Pelletier
Professeur des Universités et professeur à l’institut catholique de Paris :

« Des vivants non parlants ». Problématiques bibliques d’une question contemporaine.

2. Jeudi 25 mars 2010 de 17h à 19h à l’Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Wiesel (119 rue La Fayette 75009 Paris)

« Le gouffre Homme-Animal : une intuition de la pensée biblique »
par Franklin Rausky : Maître de conférences à l’université de Strasbourg


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