Launch of Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life

Thursday, November 6, 1-6:30pm

Rotunda, Low Memorial Library

The Past and Future of Religion & Toleration,

1–2:30 pm  

• Toleration Faculty Working Group: Karen Barkey, Rajeev Bhargava. Akeel Bilgrami, Ira Katznelson, Sudipta Kaviraj, Alfred Stepan, Nadia Urbinati

 • with Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University

Art, Religion and Politics Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, 3-4:30 pm  

• Thomas Krens, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Literature and Terror, 5-6:30pm   

• Salman Rushdie, whose Midnight’s Children (1981) was recently named the best novel to have won the Man Booker Prize

• Opening remarks by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University

• Introduction by Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature

Philip Gourevitch: Literature and Terror

Tuesday, October 14, 6-7:30pm

International Affairs Building, Room 1501

    Richard Locke, Professor of Writing at Columbia's School of the Arts, in conversation with Philip Gourevitch, writer and editor of The Paris Review, on his most recent book Standard Operating Procedure, which he co-authored with filmmaker Errol Morris. The book and Morris' film explore Abu Ghraib.

    Copies of his books will be on sale courtesy of Book Culture.

   The Literature and Terror series will continue on Tuesday, December 2 with Jonathan Safran Foer and next semester with Paul Auster, David Ignatius, Uzodinma Iweala, and Dalia Sofer.

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