Author Archives: Keith Miyake

About Keith Miyake

Keith Miyake is a graduate of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work crosses the fields of political economic geography, environmental justice and environmental governance, critical race and ethnic studies, American studies, and Asian American studies. His dissertation examined the institutionalization of environmental and racial knowledges within the contemporary capitalist state.

MUSLIM ZION by Faisal Devji

September 27, 2011
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre

Faisel Devji is interested in the political thought of modern Islam as well as in the transformation of liberal categories and democratic practice in South Asia. Devji’s broader concerns are with ethics and violence in a globalized world, particularly with the thought and practices of Mahatma Gandhi, who was among the earliest and perhaps most perceptive commentator on this predicament of our times. [read more»]

Islam in Europe & America: Day 1

May 04, 2011
12:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Room C198

Please note: The conference is open to all; registration is recommended via email to religion@gc.cuny.edu Day 1: May 4th, 2011 – Conference Brochure 12:45pm
Opening remarks
Provost and Distinguished Professor of History
Chase Robinson and Bryan Turner, Director of the Religion Committee and Presidential Professor of
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Room C198 [read more»]

Islam in Europe & America: Day 2

May 05, 2011
10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Skylight Room

Day 2: May 5th, 2011 – Conference Brochure 10:00am-11:30am
Saba Mahmood
(Sociocultural Anthropology, UC-Berkeley)
Workshop: “Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.”
Room 5307 12:30pm-1:00pm
Bryan Turner
(Presidential Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center)
“Sharia, Religious Tribunals and Legal Pluralism.”
Skylight Room 1:00pm-2:45pm
Jose Casanova
(Sociology, Georgetown University)
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