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)
“Muslim Immigrants and Islam across the Atlantic: Nativism, Secularism and Occidentalism.”
Skylight Room
Afternoon tea and coffee
3:30pm-5:00pm
Sherman Jackson
(Islamic Studies, University of Michigan)
“Islams and Muslims in America: The Wages of Religious Agnosia.”
Respondent: Mucahit Bilici (Sociology, CUNY).
Skylight Room
6:00pm-8:00pm
Saba Mahmood
(Sociocultural Anthropology, UC-Berkeley)
“Secularism, Sexual Difference and Religious Liberty.”
Skylight Room