Seminar on Religion, Pluralism and Civil Enculturation
Thomas Blom Hansen
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Thomas Hansen, Director of Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and Professor of Anthropology, will give a lecture entitled “Politics by All Means: Violence and Democracy in India.” This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street in Brookline, MA.
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Scott Appleby
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Scott Appleby, Director of the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will give a lecture entitled “One Modern World for All? The View from the Vatican, with Commentary from Cairo, Tehran, and New York.” This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street in Brookline, MA.
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Alfred Stepan
On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Alfred Stepan, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Tolerance, and Religion at Columbia University, will give a lecture entitled “Transcending Deep Religious Diversity: Democratic Accomplishments in India and Possibilities in Tunisia”. A world-renowned political theorist of democracy, democratic transitions, and pluralist citizenship, Stepan will be speaking on a subject at the heart of his new book, Crafting State Nations: India and other Multinational Democracies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street in Brookline, MA.
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Ahmet T. Kuru
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, Ahmet T. Kuru, assistant professor of politcal science at San Diego State University will give a lecture entitled “Secular States and Religions: Comparing the United States, France, and Turkey.” This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street in Brookline, MA.
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Suzanne Last Stone
On Tuesday November 30, 2010, Suzanne Last Stone, from Yeshiva University, spoke on “Rabbinic Conceptions of Civil Society: Problems and Possibilities’”. This seminar took place in the CURA conference room, 10 Lenox Street First floor, Brookline, MA. Click the link below to view the PDF of Suzanne Stone’s publication.
The Jewish Tradition and Civil Society, Suzanne Last Stone
Anver Emon
On Thursday October 28, 2010, Anver Emon, from the University of Toronto, spoke on “Tolerance, Governance, and the Islamic ‘Other’” as part of the on going seminar series. This seminar took place in the CURA Conference Room, 10 Lenox Street, Brookline, MA. Click the link below to view the PDF of Anver Emon’s publication.


