Islam in Europe and America May 4, 2011

Join the Committee for the Study of Religion in a conference presenting interdisciplinary research on religion and the sacred, and their complex and diverse manifestations in modern societies. Speakers will include Ulrich Beck, Sociology, London School of Economics & University of Munich; Jocelin Cesari, Government, Harvard University; Sherman Jackson, Near East Studies, University of Michigan; Christian Joppke, Government, American University of Paris; Daniele Hervieu-Leger, l’École hautes études en sciences sociales; Saba Mahmood, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, and others.

Program:

May 4, 2011
12:45pm: Chase Robinson and Bryan Turner, Introduction, Skylight Room
1:00pm: Jocelyne Cesari, “Behaving, Belonging, Believing: Religiosity Among Muslims in Europe and America”, Skylight Room
3:00pm: Christian Joppke, “Can Muslims Live in a Liberal Society?”, Auditorium
6:00pm: Ulrich Beck, „A God of One‟s Own: Religion and Cosmopolitanism‟, Proshansky Auditorium

May 5, 2011
10:00am: Saba Mahmood, Workshop, Skylight Room
12:30pm: Craig Calhoun, “The SSRC and The Study of Religion”, Skylight Room
1:00pm: Danielle Hervieu-Leger, “The Rise of the Religious Subject”, Skylight Room
3:30pm: Sherman Jackson, “Islams and Muslims in America: The Wages of Religious Agnosia”, Skylight Room
6:00pm: Saba Mahmood, “Religious Freedom, Minorities and Geopolitics: A Middle Eastern Geneaology”, Skylight Room

May 6th, 2011
10:00am: Danielle Hervieu-Leger, Workshop: Religion as a Chain of Memory, Skylight Room

co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics,the Center for Globalization and Social Change, and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center