Europe, Religion, Integration: A Lecture by Olivier Roy

Please join us for a lecture by Olivier Roy. Roy is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (since 1985). and a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (since 2003). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94) and was a Consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). His field works include Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions.

Olivier Roy is the author of, among other books, Globalized Islam (Chicago University Press, 2004), and Holy Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2010). His last book is “En Quête de l’Orient perdu” (Seuil, 2014).

Respondent: Jessia Stern, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies. Stern is the coauthor with J.M. Berger of ISIS: The State of Terror and the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, The Ultimate Terrorists, and numerous articles on terrorism.

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