Time: Mondays, 12:00–1:30pm.
Fall Location: Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will be held at the Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369), Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street.
Spring Location: Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will be held at the CGIS knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
Click on the event title to view the full details of each listing.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: September 14, 2009
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
- This is open to the public.
"Religion and Government Juxtaposed, 2003-2008"
Discussant:
Baber Johansen
Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Feldman, Noah
Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School.; Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: October 5, 2009
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
- This is open to the public.
"Religion, Rationality and Violence"
Discussant:
J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Toft, Monica Duffy
- Faculty Associate.
Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director, Initiative on Religion
in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: October 19, 2009
- Time: 12:00 pm
- This is open to the public.
Please note that this seminar meeting has been canceled, and will be rescheduled in the spring semester.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: November 16, 2009
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
- This is open to the public.
"American Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Discourse"
Discussant:
Barbara Kellerman
James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Eck, Diana L.
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Fainsod Room (Littauer 324)
- This is open to the public.
"Muslims in the West after 9/11: Religion, Law and Politics"
Discussant:
Philip B. Heymann
James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Cesari, Jocelyne
Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: January 25, 2010
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Can religious groups meet in public?: The clash between nondiscrimination law and the First Amendment."
Discussant:
Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- McConnell, Michael
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, and Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: February 8, 2010
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"In the Service of State and Nation: Religion in East Asia."
Discussant:
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy
School, and University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard
University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Katzenstein, Peter J.
Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, and Stephen Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow, Cornell University. President, American Political Science Association (2008-09).
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: April 5, 2010
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled.
“Under God: The American Tradition of Public Religion.”
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Meacham, Jon
Editor, Newsweek.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: April 19, 2010
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"American Grace: The Changing Role of Religion in America"
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Putnam, Robert D.
- Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Peter and Isabel
Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Department of Government, Harvard
University.
