CURA Director Robert W. Hefner was interviewed on July 19th on live television on Singapore’s Channel News Asia. The program, called “First Look Asia”, focused on the killing of Santoso (real name Abu Wardah), the most-wanted terrorist in Indonesia, who died in an anti-terrorist raid. Hefner addressed questions around whether Santoso’s death represents a turning […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find Director Bob Hefner’s article on “The new western plurality and citizen co-existence” on the […]
Professor Joel Day submitted a new working paper on terrorist cells that pledge allegiance to ISIS. What are their motivations? Read his interesting paper as part of our series.
Check out the Pardee School news item on Director Bob Hefner’s most recent trip to Indonesia. Hefner Speaks in Indonesia
Former CURA director Peter L. Berger will be speaking at Harvard Divinity School October 15 as part of a grant given to CURA by the Templeton Foundation. The title is “Why Hasn’t Religion Died Out?” Click here for more details.
Funded by a generous donation to CURA, Peter L. Berger will be speaking at Georgetown University next week, with response from David Brooks, NY Times columnist. For more information, here is the event page.
CURA associate faculty member Jeremy Menchik, Assistant Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies was awarded the Southeast Asian Politics Paper Prize from the American Political Science Association’s Southeast Asian Politics Group for his 2014 paper, “Productive Intolerance: Godly Nationalism in Indonesia”. Read more here.
On April 21 and 22, Professor Bob Hefner hosted an International Research Conference at Georgetown University, entitled “Religious Change and Gender Relations in Southeast Asia: What the Policy Community Needs to Know.” Sponsored by the Luce Foundation and co-hosted by Katherine Marshall of the Berkeley Center at Georgetown, the conference was the second of three […]
It’s been announced that CURA has officially joined several other prestigious institutes within the new Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. We are looking forward to many fruitful collaborations cross discipline in the future. Read the announcement here.
Professor Jeffrey Rubin guest-edited a special issue of the Latin American Research Review entitled, “Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America’s Zones of Crisis,” along with David Smilde of Tulane University and Ben Junge of SUNY-New Paltz. Rubin directed the four-year collaborative project, based at CURA, that examined the ways in which religious and […]