ircpl.org http://ircpl.org Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:08:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Listen to recordings of events sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University. Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life IRCPL religion, culture, public life, arts, literature, humanities, readings, lectures, columbia university no Emily Brennan embrennan422@gmail.com Paul Kollman: “God(s) at Large: Tentative Theses on Religion and Mobility” http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/paul-kollman-gods-at-large-tentative-theses-on-religion-and-mobility-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/paul-kollman-gods-at-large-tentative-theses-on-religion-and-mobility-2/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:38:53 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=3378 Listen to a conversation with Paul Kollman, Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Acting Director of the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame. In 2005 he published The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa and his current project is a book on the Catholic missionary evangelization of eastern Africa.

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/paul-kollman-gods-at-large-tentative-theses-on-religion-and-mobility-2/feed/ 0 Listen to a conversation with Paul Kollman, Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Acting Director of the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame. In 2005 he published The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa and his current project is a book on the Catholic missionary evangelization of eastern Africa. Listen to a conversation with Paul Kollman, Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Acting Director of the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame. In 2005 he published The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins [...] Neal Stephenson: Rewiring the Real http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/neal-stephenson-rewiring-the-real-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/neal-stephenson-rewiring-the-real-2/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:33:03 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=3371 Listen to a conversation with Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and most recently Reamde. Moderated by Alfred E. Guy Jr, director of Yale College Writing Center.

Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, Jennifer Egan on February 7 and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24.

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/neal-stephenson-rewiring-the-real-2/feed/ 0 Listen to a conversation with Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and most recently Reamde. Moderated by Alfred E. Guy Jr, director of Yale College Writing Center. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, Jennifer Egan on February 7 and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24. Listen to a conversation with Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and most recently Reamde. Moderated by Alfred E. Guy Jr, director of Yale College Writing Center. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations [...] Gary Shteyngart: Rewiring the Real http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/gary-shteyngart-rewiring-the-real-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/gary-shteyngart-rewiring-the-real-2/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:19:26 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=3159 Listen to a conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory. 

Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, including Neal Stephenson on December 1; Jennifer Egan on February 7; and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24.

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/gary-shteyngart-rewiring-the-real-2/feed/ 0 Listen to a conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory.  Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, including Neal Stephenson on December 1; Jennifer Egan on February 7; and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24. Listen to a conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and [...] Rajeev Bhargava: Are European States Secular? http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/rajeev-bhargava-are-european-states-secular/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/rajeev-bhargava-are-european-states-secular/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:06:20 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=3138 Listen to a talk by Rajeev Bhargava, director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CDSD) in India and renowned author of Secularism and Its Critics. Europe, the home of secular humanism, has the most secularized social institutions in the world. Wasn’t it settled long ago that European states were secular too? Rajeev Bhargava’s answer is an emphatic no. ]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/rajeev-bhargava-are-european-states-secular/feed/ 0 Listen to a talk by Rajeev Bhargava, director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CDSD) in India and renowned author of Secularism and Its Critics. Europe, the home of secular humanism, has the most secularized social institutions in the world. Wasn’t it settled long ago that European states were secular too? Rajeev Bhargava’s answer is an emphatic no. Listen to a talk by Rajeev Bhargava, director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CDSD) in India and renowned author of Secularism and Its Critics. Europe, the home of secular humanism, has the most secularized social [...] Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/understanding-occupywallstreet-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/understanding-occupywallstreet-2/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:21:45 +0000 jblankholm http://ircpl.org/?p=3028 Listen to or watch a discussion on the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement. On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion.

Participants included Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris(ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA).

Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL).

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/understanding-occupywallstreet-2/feed/ 0 Listen to or watch a discussion on the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement. On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion. Participants included Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris(ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA). Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL). Listen to or watch a discussion on the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement. On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include [...] Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET http://ircpl.org/2011/event/understanding-occupywallstreet/ http://ircpl.org/2011/event/understanding-occupywallstreet/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:21:40 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=2998 On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion.

Participants include Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris (ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA).

Seating is limited, and registration is required. Please RSVP to jlb2210@columbia.edu.

Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL).

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/event/understanding-occupywallstreet/feed/ 0 On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy it during the day. Similar protests have begun in other cities around the United States and throughout the world. The leaderless movement has spread largely via the Internet and through the use of mobile technology and social media. How do we understand this movement? What is new about it, and how has it arisen? Where is it going, and how has it already changed? A roundtable of Columbia University professors will explore these questions and provide a platform for campus-wide discussion. Participants include Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris (ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA). Seating is limited, and registration is required. Please RSVP to jlb2210@columbia.edu. Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL). On September 17th, 2011, a group of protestors began their occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan. The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement has grown to include hundreds of people who live in the park and thousands more who occupy [...] Muslim-American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11 http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/muslim-american-citizenship-a-decade-since-911-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/muslim-american-citizenship-a-decade-since-911-2/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:01:39 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=2928 Listen to podcasts from the conference Muslim-American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11. Panelists examined political and electoral participation of Muslim Americans; the effects of counter-terrorism and de-radicalization policies; new policing and urban zoning laws on Muslim-American communities; and how increases in profiling, racialization and mobilization have reshaped Muslim-American engagement in the public sphere.

Elections and Participation

  • Farid Senzai (Santa Clara University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here
  • Suhail Khan (Institute for Global Engagement)– Listen here
  • Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) & Irfan Nooruddin (Ohio State University)– Listen here
  • Discussion moderated by Ousmane Kane (Columbia University)– Listen here

Countering Violent Extremism: Myths and Realities

  • Faiza Patel (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here
  • Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)– Listen here
  • Bilal Ansari (Williams College)– Listen here
  • Mohamed Younis (Gallup Abu Dhabi)– Listen here
  • Arun Kundnani (Open Society Institute)– Listen here
  • Discussion moderated by Faiza Patel (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here

Policing and Urban Zoning Laws

  • Emily Berman (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here
  • Sally Howell (University of Michigan, Dearborn)– Listen here
  • Kathleen Foley (Cornell University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding)– Listen here
  • Arshad Ali (Teachers College)– Listen here
  • Discussion moderated Emily Berman – Listen here

Profiling, Racialization, and Mobilization

  • Zareena Grewal (Yale University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here
  • Hishaam Aidi (Columbia University) – Listen here
  • Zaheer Ali (Columbia University) – Listen here
  • Sahar Aziz (Texas Wesleyan University of Law, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here
  • Moderator: Ramzi Kassem (CUNY Law)

Keynote Address

  • Asifa Quraishi (University of Wisconsin Law School, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here
]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/muslim-american-citizenship-a-decade-since-911-2/feed/ 1 Listen to podcasts from the conference Muslim-American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11. Panelists examined political and electoral participation of Muslim Americans; the effects of counter-terrorism and de-radicalization policies; new policing and urban zoning laws on Muslim-American communities; and how increases in profiling, racialization and mobilization have reshaped Muslim-American engagement in the public sphere. Elections and Participation Farid Senzai (Santa Clara University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here Suhail Khan (Institute for Global Engagement)– Listen here Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) & Irfan Nooruddin (Ohio State University)– Listen here Discussion moderated by Ousmane Kane (Columbia University)– Listen here Countering Violent Extremism: Myths and Realities Faiza Patel (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)– Listen here Bilal Ansari (Williams College)– Listen here Mohamed Younis (Gallup Abu Dhabi)– Listen here Arun Kundnani (Open Society Institute)– Listen here Discussion moderated by Faiza Patel (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here Policing and Urban Zoning Laws Emily Berman (Brennan Center for Justice)– Listen here Sally Howell (University of Michigan, Dearborn)– Listen here Kathleen Foley (Cornell University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding)– Listen here Arshad Ali (Teachers College)– Listen here Discussion moderated Emily Berman – Listen here Profiling, Racialization, and Mobilization Zareena Grewal (Yale University, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here Hishaam Aidi (Columbia University) – Listen here Zaheer Ali (Columbia University) – Listen here Sahar Aziz (Texas Wesleyan University of Law, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here Moderator: Ramzi Kassem (CUNY Law) Keynote Address Asifa Quraishi (University of Wisconsin Law School, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding) – Listen here Listen to podcasts from the conference Muslim-American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11. Panelists examined political and electoral participation of Muslim Americans; the effects of counter-terrorism and de-radicalization policies; new policing and [...] Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/2910/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/2910/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:28:59 +0000 Emily http://ircpl.org/?p=2910 Listen to podcasts from the conference Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism, held on September 24, 2011, on what causes change in human rights norms and practices across cultures.

  • Jack Snyder (Columbia University) – Listen here.
  • Kathryn Sikkink (University of Minnesota) – Listen here.
  • Emilie Hafner?Burton (University of California at San Diego) – Listen here.
  • Amitav Acharya (American University) – Listen here.
  • Charli Carpenter (University of Massachusetts?Amherst) – Listen here.
  • Kenneth Roth (Human Rights Watch) – Listen here.
  • Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) – Listen here.
]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/2910/feed/ 0 Listen to podcasts from the conference Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism, held on September 24, 2011, on what causes change in human rights norms and practices across cultures. Jack Snyder (Columbia University) – Listen here. Kathryn Sikkink (University of Minnesota) – Listen here. Emilie Hafner?Burton (University of California at San Diego) – Listen here. Amitav Acharya (American University) – Listen here. Charli Carpenter (University of Massachusetts?Amherst) – Listen here. Kenneth Roth (Human Rights Watch) – Listen here. Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) – Listen here. Listen to podcasts from the conference Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism, held on September 24, 2011, on what causes change in human rights norms and practices across cultures. Jack Snyder (Columbia University) – Listen here. Kathryn Sikkink [...] Sacred Spaces – Religion and Conflict Resolution http://ircpl.org/2011/news/sacred-spaces-%e2%80%93-religion-and-conflict-resolution/ http://ircpl.org/2011/news/sacred-spaces-%e2%80%93-religion-and-conflict-resolution/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:49:48 +0000 cebin http://ircpl.org/?p=2674 The IRCPL and the CDTR are happy to announce the continuation of the ongoing project Sacred Spaces – Religion and Conflict Resolution. Since 2009, Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology and History and Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs, have been fostering the examination of particular sacred sites, primarily in former Ottoman Empire areas, to look at historical as well as present-day issues surrounding shared sacred spaces. By delving into the past more carefully they show that we can document the legacy of shared sites and lived experience, thereby informing contemporary events.

What does it mean for a sacred religious site to be shared among different faiths? How do actors at different levels, those who live in direct proximity to the site or who use it every day, national and international governmental figures, religious leaders, and others work together to make a site a functional shared space? How do conflicts develop around these sites, and what can we do to move from conflict to cooperation? These are the questions that the Sacred Spaces project poses.

Following this line of thought, Sacred Spaces presents Sacred Sites: Post-Gujarat’s Hindu-Muslim Violence Reconciliation Workshop on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011. This workshop will seek to enable NGO activists who have been involved in reconciliation work in Gujurat, India, to share their experience and to assess the impact of their efforts.

Speakers will include Christophe Jaffrelot, Research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and professor of South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po, and Rajeev Bhargava, Senior Fellow and Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Cosponsored by CDTR.

For more information please click here.

Past Sacred Spaces Events:

In April of 2011, Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies,  part of the Middle East Institute, hosted a conference very relevant to the work of the Choreography of Sacred Sites project called Locating Tolerance: The Conflict over the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem. Details of the conference can be found here.

Explore the May 2009 conference, Choreography of Sacred Space: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution, conducted in partnership with Bogaziçi University, Istanbul and Columbia University’s The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), and The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR).

View Conference Program  |  Read Presentation Abstracts |  Read Invitee Bios

Listen to Conference Audio

Religious antagonism and shared sanctuaries in Algeria

Dionigi Albera, French National Center for Scientific Research

Sacred Memories, Plural Realities: Remembering and Producing Shared Sacred Spaces

Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University

 Re-consolidating the borders between self and other and between self and the state: Ethnographic explorations of past memories and present struggles between Syrian Christians and Kurds at the margins of contemporary Turkey

Zerrin Ozlem Binar, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and the Middle East

Glenn Bowman, University of Kent at Canterbury

A Rebel, a Saint, and a Contested Shrine: The Türbe of the 16th Century Sheikh Bali Efendi, Its Inauspicious Usurpation by a Notorious Muslim in the 19th Century, and the Stir it Caused in the Forging of the
Bulgarian Nation-State in the 20th Century

Tolga Esmer, Central European University

Secularizing the unsecularizable: A comparative study of the Haci Bektash Veli and the Mevlana Museums in Turkey

Rabia Harmansah, Doctoral Student, University of Pittsburgh

Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred: Choreographies of Co-existence in Cyprus

Mete Hatay, Project Leader at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre

The Byzantine Mosque at Trilye: A Processual Analysis of Dominance, Sharing, Transformation, and Tolerance

Robert Hayden, University of Pittsburgh

Conflict over Holy Sites in the City; Symptoms of the Conflict in nature, images and type of the city

Rassem Khamaisi, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, University of Haifa

The Ambiguous Politics of “Ambiguous Sanctuaries”: F. Hasluck and Historiography on Syncretism and Conversion to Islam in 15th – and 16th-century Ottoman Empire

Tijana Krstic, Central European University

At the Boundaries of the Sacred. The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Al-Wad Street

Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/news/sacred-spaces-%e2%80%93-religion-and-conflict-resolution/feed/ 0 The IRCPL and the CDTR are happy to announce the continuation of the ongoing project Sacred Spaces – Religion and Conflict Resolution. Since 2009, Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology and History and Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs, have been fostering the examination of particular sacred sites, primarily in former Ottoman Empire areas, to look at historical as well as present-day issues surrounding shared sacred spaces. By delving into the past more carefully they show that we can document the legacy of shared sites and lived experience, thereby informing contemporary events. What does it mean for a sacred religious site to be shared among different faiths? How do actors at different levels, those who live in direct proximity to the site or who use it every day, national and international governmental figures, religious leaders, and others work together to make a site a functional shared space? How do conflicts develop around these sites, and what can we do to move from conflict to cooperation? These are the questions that the Sacred Spaces project poses. Following this line of thought, Sacred Spaces presents Sacred Sites: Post-Gujarat’s Hindu-Muslim Violence Reconciliation Workshop on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011. This workshop will seek to enable NGO activists who have been involved in reconciliation work in Gujurat, India, to share their experience and to assess the impact of their efforts. Speakers will include Christophe Jaffrelot, Research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and professor of South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po, and Rajeev Bhargava, Senior Fellow and Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Cosponsored by CDTR. For more information please click here. Past Sacred Spaces Events: In April of 2011, Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies,  part of the Middle East Institute, hosted a conference very relevant to the work of the Choreography of Sacred Sites project called Locating Tolerance: The Conflict over the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem. Details of the conference can be found here. Explore the May 2009 conference, Choreography of Sacred Space: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution, conducted in partnership with Bogaziçi University, Istanbul and Columbia University’s The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), and The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR). View Conference Program  |  Read Presentation Abstracts |  Read Invitee Bios Listen to Conference Audio Religious antagonism and shared sanctuaries in Algeria Dionigi Albera, French National Center for Scientific Research Sacred Memories, Plural Realities: Remembering and Producing Shared Sacred Spaces Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University  Re-consolidating the borders between self and other and between self and the state: Ethnographic explorations of past memories and present struggles between Syrian Christians and Kurds at the margins of contemporary Turkey Zerrin Ozlem Binar, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and the Middle East Glenn Bowman, University of Kent at Canterbury A Rebel, a Saint, and a Contested Shrine: The Türbe of the 16th Century Sheikh Bali Efendi, Its Inauspicious Usurpation by a Notorious Muslim in the 19th Century, and the Stir it Caused in the Forging of the Bulgarian Nation-State in the 20th Century Tolga Esmer, Central European University Secularizing the unsecularizable: A comparative study of the Haci Bektash Veli and the Mevlana Museums in Turkey Rabia Harmansah, Doctoral Student, University of Pittsburgh Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred: Choreographies of Co-existence in Cyprus Mete Hatay, Project Leader at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre The Byzantine Mosque at Trilye: A Processual Analysis of Dominance, Sharing, Transformation, and [...] The IRCPL and the CDTR are happy to announce the continuation of the ongoing project Sacred Spaces – Religion and Conflict Resolution. Since 2009, Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology and History and Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and [...] Eros and Cosmocracy: Birthing a Holistic Ecology http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/eros-and-cosmocracy-birthing-a-holistic-ecology-2/ http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/eros-and-cosmocracy-birthing-a-holistic-ecology-2/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:00:56 +0000 jblankholm http://ircpl.org/?p=2396 Listen to a symposium offering alternative approaches to environmentalism’s overly econometric, scientific and anti-metaphysical worldview.  Ecology must tend to location, ethics and cosmology as mutually imbricating, question the contestatory perspective of scarcity-based models and reconnect mind, spirit and body; human, non-human and technological worlds; ethics, politics, science and religion.  Featuring David Abram, Irene Diamond, Andrew Revkin, David Rothenbergand Rhonda Roland Shearer.
Speakers include:
David Rothenberg, “Animal Beauty: Art, Science, and Evolution”
Rhonda Roland Shearer, “Misrepresenting Other Places: Jared Diamond, New Guinea Tribes and the Harm of Scholarly Irresponsibility”
David Abram, “On Language and the Ecology of Sensory Experience”
Irene Diamond, “Governing Within an Evolving Earth”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, respondent
Andrew Revkin, respondent (tentative)
Jonathan Schorsch, moderatorSponsored with the Department of Religion.

]]> http://ircpl.org/2011/rethinking-religion/events/podcasts/eros-and-cosmocracy-birthing-a-holistic-ecology-2/feed/ 0 Listen to a symposium offering alternative approaches to environmentalism’s overly econometric, scientific and anti-metaphysical worldview.  Ecology must tend to location, ethics and cosmology as mutually imbricating, question the contestatory perspective of scarcity-based models and reconnect mind, spirit and body; human, non-human and technological worlds; ethics, politics, science and religion.  Featuring David Abram, Irene Diamond, Andrew Revkin, David Rothenbergand Rhonda Roland Shearer. Speakers include: David Rothenberg, “Animal Beauty: Art, Science, and Evolution” Rhonda Roland Shearer, “Misrepresenting Other Places: Jared Diamond, New Guinea Tribes and the Harm of Scholarly Irresponsibility” David Abram, “On Language and the Ecology of Sensory Experience” Irene Diamond, “Governing Within an Evolving Earth” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, respondent Andrew Revkin, respondent (tentative) Jonathan Schorsch, moderatorSponsored with the Department of Religion. Listen to a symposium offering alternative approaches to environmentalism’s overly econometric, scientific and anti-metaphysical worldview.  Ecology must tend to location, ethics and cosmology as mutually imbricating, question the contestatory [...]