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- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: September 13, 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.
"Religion in Europe - And How to Accommodate Islam"
Discussant:
Jocelyne Cesari
Associate, Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, and Director, Islam in the West Program, Harvard University. Senior Research
Fellow at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Robbers, Gerhard
Professor of Public Law and Political Philosophy and Director of the Institute for European Constitutional Law, University of Trier, Germany.
- Harvard International and Global History Seminar
- Date: September 15, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S050
- This is open to the public.
"Religion and Morality in Franklin Roosevelt's Diplomatic Thought"
Comment:
Leigh Schmidt
Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School.
Monica Duffy
Toft
Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Co-sponsored by the Religion and Politics Seminar of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
- Moderator/Chair
- Temkin, Moshik
- Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Manela, Erez
- Director, Graduate Student
Programs; Director, Program on Global Society and Security; Executive
Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of
History, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Preston, Andrew
Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Cambridge.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: September 27, 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.
"The Christian Roots of the Secular State: A Comparative Analysis"
Discussant:
Ronald Thiemann
Bussey Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Ferrari, Silvio
Professor of Canon Law, University of Milan, Italy. President, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies.
- Harvard International and Global History Seminar
- Date: October 6, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S050
- This is open to the public.
"How to Sell the State: Nation Branding, Civil Society and Cultural Diplomacy since 1850"
Comment:
Ann Wilson
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Temkin, Moshik
- Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Manela, Erez
- Director, Graduate Student
Programs; Director, Program on Global Society and Security; Executive
Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of
History, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Gienow-Hecht, Jessica
Professor of International History, University of Köln.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: October 18, 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.
"Judicial Politics and the Secularization of European Nation-States—Religious Diversity at the European Court of Human Rights, 1959–2009"
Discussant:
Jytte Klausen
Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation, Department of Politics, Brandies University.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Koenig, Matthias
Professor of Sociology of Religion, University of Göttingen, Germany.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: October 25, 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.
"What is a Muslim State? Illiberal Secularity in the Tunisian and Egyptian Young Republics"
Discussant:
Noah Feldman
Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Zeghal, Malika
Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University.
- Harvard International and Global History Seminar
- Date: October 27, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S050
- This is open to the public.
"Dien Bien Phu as International History"
Comment:
Eva Bitran
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Temkin, Moshik
- Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Manela, Erez
- Director, Graduate Student
Programs; Director, Program on Global Society and Security; Executive
Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of
History, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Logevall, Fredrik
John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Cornell University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: November 15, 2010
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Scientist and Evangelical Christian Conversations on Climate Change"
Discussant:
Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, and Secretary for Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- McCarthy, James
Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University.
- Harvard International and Global History Seminar
- Date: November 17, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S050
- This is open to the public.
"European Refugees and ‘Population Redistribution’ in the Early Cold War Period"
Comment:
Elisa Minoff
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Temkin, Moshik
- Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Manela, Erez
- Director, Graduate Student
Programs; Director, Program on Global Society and Security; Executive
Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of
History, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Cohen, Daniel
Associate Professor of History, Rice University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: January 31, 2011
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Fainsod Room (Littauer 324)
- This is open to the public.
"The Islam and Democracy Question, Revisited"
Discussant:
Harvey Cox
Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Hefner, Robert
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), Boston University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: March 28, 2011
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Weil Hall (Ground Floor, Belfer Building)
- This is open to the public.
"Religious Origins of the Smithian Revolution in Economics"
Discussant:
David Hall
Bartlett Research Professor, Harvard Divinity School.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Friedman, Benjamin M.
- Faculty Associate; JWE Faculty Committee. William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
- Religion and Politics Seminar
- Date: April 11, 2011
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Nye A (5th floor, Taubman Building)
- This is open to the public.
"Resurgent Religion and Global Politics: The Case of
Democratization"
Discussant:
Bryan Hehir
Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor
of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, and
Secretary for Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Shah, Timothy Samuel
Associate Director, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University.
- 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: April 18, 2011
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Weil Hall (Ground Floor, Belfer Building)
- This is open to the public.
"Civil Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Discussant:
Monica Toft
Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.
- Moderator/Chair
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Banchoff, Thomas
Associate Professor, and Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University.
