Religion and Empire: Keynote Lectures
The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) invites you to their keynote lectures for their year-long series on Religion and Empire. Register below.
Category: Events at CURA
The Afterlife of Pan-Africanism and the Spirit of Development
Presenters: Zachary Mondesire, Assistant Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Abstract: Since the moment of decolonization in Africa it seems that the political import of the Pan-African anti-imperialist worldview has waned. Yet, the project of continental unity has nevertheless persisted at regional and continental scales, as individuals and governments imagine and enact various forms of political […]
Empires of Intolerance: Colonial Legacies and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in the Global South
Presenters: Taylor C. Boas, Professor, Department of Political Science and Caden Browne, PhD Student, Department of Political Science Abstract: Public opinion toward gay and lesbian people and related policy issues varies widely across the Global South. In some countries, large majorities express tolerant opinions, whereas in many others, homophobia is widespread. The predominant explanation […]
Book Talk: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
The Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), The Center on Forced Displacement, and the History Department invite you to join us for a book talk — moderated by Aimee Genell (BU) –on Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s recently published monograph Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. See below for book abstract […]
Book Talk: Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics
The Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), The Center of the Study of Asia, and the Department of Anthropology invite you to join us for a book talk — moderated by Andrew March (UMass Amherst) — on Robert Hefner’s (BU) recently published monograph Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for […]
The Legal Work of Empire: Managing Europe and Religious Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire (CURA Colloquium)
Presenter: Aimee M. Genell, Assistant Professor of History, Pardee School of Global Studies Abstract: Between the 1880s and the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the role of international law in Ottoman intellectual thought and state practice transformed dramatically. In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman lawyers and intellectuals viewed international law as a tool of the […]
CURA Colloquium | Religion & Empire (Spring 2024)
CURA announces the Spring 2024 colloquium schedule. This year-long conversation brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars of Religion & Empire. Please register below for the session(s) you plan to attend. 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, scholars of religion are again examining the place of empire in history and international relations. We […]
Conversations about Israel-Palestine
In fall 2023, CURA and Pardee School Dean Scott Taylor launched a series of conversations about Israel and Palestine. The goal of the series was two-fold: First, to educate our community about the history, politics, and global factors that have led to the contemporary war and devastating bloodshed. Second, and just as important, to model […]
Beyond the Headlines: Conversations about Israel-Palestine
On Wednesday, November 8, Dean Scott Taylor launched a series of conversations about Israel and Palestine. The School’s goal is two-fold. First, to educate our community about the history, politics, and global factors that have led to the contemporary war and devastating bloodshed. Second, and just as important, our goal to model how to discuss […]
Event Highlights: Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism
This event, which took place at BU’s Howard Thurman Center on Thursday, October 5, celebrates the recent publication by Princeton University Press of Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism by Teena U. Purohit, Associate Professor of Religion, South Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies at Boston University. Cemil Aydin, Professor of History at the […]