With Victor Anderson, Serene Jones and Barbara Savage

Religion, Race & Sexuality: A Public Conversation

With Christopher Caldwell, Adam Gopnik, Patrick Weil and Peter Awn

A cocktail reception with the speakers will follow. To attend the event, please RSVP to: mj2412@columbia.edu Co-sponsored by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program, the American Foundation, and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

With Yogendra Yadav

A talk by Yogendra Yadav, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Co-Director of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy. His research interests include modern Indian political thought and Indian socialism.

With Aqil Shah, Jack Snyder and Alfred Stepan

A discussion with Aqil Shah, current PhD in Political Science at Columbia University and Harvard Society of Fellows 2010-2012. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, and Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government.

With Jeremy Dauber, Jonathan Schorsch and more

A symposium on Jews and Native Americans, two peoples made into Others by Christian Euro-America in fascinatingly similar yet different ways: as remnants of primitivity, as tribal peoples, as enduring threats and unassimilable enemies, and as romanticized traditionals possessing the solution to the ills of modernity.

With Uri Cohen

A screening of My Father, My Lord (2007) and a discussion.

With Aamir Mufti

The discipline that was once called “Oriental Studies” has been divided up in various ways in today’s university. This conference is concerned not with “the death of the discipline” as so many others have been, but rather with the diversity of the disciplines when it comes to studying the non-Western World.

With Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Malika Zeghal, Rosemary Hicks, Mohamed Nimeir, Solenne Jouaneau, Ahmet Kuru, Louise Cainkar, Valerie Amiraux, Simona Tersigni, Ousmane Kane and more

A conference on the challenges faced by Muslim immigrants and their children in the process of integration in France and the United States.

With Bernard Stiegler, Mark C. Taylor, Brian Larkin and Samuel Weber

A graduate conference on how new media technologies have transformed the way people imagine and communicate with the divine.

With Josef Sorett

A screening of The Green Pastures (1936) and discussion with Josef Sorett, Professor of Religion.

With Joshua Dubler

A screening of A Man Escaped (1956) and discussion with Joshua Dubler, Society of Fellows.

With George Rupp

A conversation with George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee and former president of Columbia University as well as author of Globlization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (2006). Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion.

With Sherene Razack and Zaheer Ali

Keynote address by Sherene Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is author of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics (2008) and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism (2004). A screening of the film “The New Muslim Cool,” by Jennifer Taylor, with a discussion with Zaheer Ali (Columbia University). The film is about Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places.

With Yakov Rabkin

Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute.

With Jack Miles

A talk by Jack Miles, Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy and Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine. A MacArthur Fellow, he is winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography.

With President Lee C. Bollinger, Vice President Nicholas B. Dirks and others

A conference in honor of B.R. AMBEDKAR, chief architect of the Indian constitution and Columbia alumnus. Participants include President Lee C. Bollinger; Vice President Nicholas B. Dirks; Gnana Alyosius; Masood Alam Falahi; Marc Galanter; Gopal Guru; Rajkumar Hans; Christophe Jaffrelot; Pratap Mehta; Smita Narula; Balmurli Natrajan; Gyan Pandey; Sudha Rani; Anupama Rao; Nat Roberts; Palanimuthu Sivakami; Jebaroja Singh; Anand Teltumbde; Gauri Viswanthan.

With Abdallah Schleifer

A talk by Abdallah Schleifer, Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo.

With Alfredo Jaar and Carol Becker

As part of the World Leaders Forum, internationally renowned artist Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of projects he has created in response to conflicts around the world. Following will be a conversation with Alfredo Jaar and Dean of the School of the Arts, Carol Becker.

With Etienne Balibar

A lecture by Etienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine, on racism, nationalism and the plight of non-European immigrants in a newly unified Europe.

With Charles Taylor, Alan Montefiore and Emmanuel Picavet

A discussion with CHARLES TAYLOR, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize, ALAN MONTEFIORE, Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and EMMANUEL PICAVET, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Paris.