This talk will draw on a paper by Gil Eyal, ‘Spaces between fields’, to talk about “interstitial spaces,” and to reflect on the role that digital projects might play in the constitution and nurturance of “spaces in between”, such as ‘The Immanent Frame’ (http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/) and other digital publication projects in view, and with “secularism studies” as an example of one such interstitial space.

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is director of the new Digital Culture program at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York City, where he is also founder and director of the Religion and the Public Sphere program, and editor-in-chief of The Immanent Frame. Originally trained as a philosopher, he received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. VanAntwerpen is coeditor of a series of edited volumes on secularism, religion, and public life, including Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013), Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Post-Secular in Question (NYU Press, 2012), The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011), and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2010). He has also written on secularism and transitional justice, philanthropy and the politics of reconciliation, American higher education, and the history of sociology. He tweets at: @jonathandirk.