Seminar on Religion, Pluralism and Civil Enculturation
Marie-Claire Foblets
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Marie-Claire Foblets, Director of the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, will give a lecture entitled “The Challenges of Religious Pluralism in a Changing Europe: Draft Summary of the Main Finding of the RELIGARE Project”. For more than twenty years Marie-Claire Foblets taught social and cultural anthropology in the universities of Antwerp and Brussels. Before becoming a member of the Max Planck Society in March 2012, she was ordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, where she headed the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology. Professor Foblets has been or is a member of various networks of researchers, focusing either on the study of the application of Islamic law in Europe, or on law and migration in Europe, including the Association Française d’Anthropologie du droit (AFAD), of which she served as co-president for several years. This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street, Brookline, MA.
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Rachelle Scott
On Thursday, February 14, 2013 Rachelle Scott, Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will give a lecture entitled “Beautiful Bodies, Prosperous Lives and Global Identities: The Rise of New Goddess Cults in Thailand”. Rachelle Scott studies the history of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on contemporary Buddhism in Thailand. Her first book, Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the Dhammakāya Temple, examined contemporary debates over monastic and lay wealth in Thailand. This seminar will take place in the first floor conference room at CURA, located at 10 Lenox Street, Brookline, MA.
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Julia Ipgrave
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 Julia Ipgrave, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, will give a lecture entitled “From Multiculturalism to Securitization: Educational Responses to British Islam.” 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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Ruth Marshall
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 Ruth Marshall, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Religion and Political Science, will give a lecture entitled “Wars and Rumors of Wars: The New Politics of Religious Witness in Nigeria.” 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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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.
