Conference: Black American Popular Religion
November 04, 2011
11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Join us for a day-long symposium on black popular religion featuring Josef Sorett, Michael Eric Dyson, and Marla Frederick [read more»]
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.
Join us for a day-long symposium on black popular religion featuring Josef Sorett, Michael Eric Dyson, and Marla Frederick [read more»]
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»]
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»]
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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Day 3: May 6th, 2011 – Conference Brochure 10:00am-11:30am: Danièle Hervieu- Léger (Sociology, L‟ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Workshop: “Religion as a Chain of Memory.” Room 5307
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