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9:00-10:00
Registration
Coffee and Bagels
10:00-11:30
PANEL
1
Religion,
Politics and
Resistance:
Contemporary Articulations
- Articulating
Dissidence: Coptic Voices and the Battle over the Public Sphere in Egypt
- Affect
and Piety: Religion and Political Participation in Orissa, India
- The
Secular and the Border: Turkey and its Externalized Religious Minorities
- Between
Faith and Reason: The
case of the Diyanet
Discussant: Talal Asad, Anthropology Department,
CUNY
Room: 913
11:30-13:00
PANEL 2
Re-Thinking
the
Theologico-Political
- Jan Assmann and
the Theologization of the Political
- Sacred Revolutions:
"Returns"
and Radicalizations of "the Religious"in Western
Socio-Political Theory
- The Problem of the
Theological-Political Analogy: Malebranche, Sieyès, and
"Representation" in c18 France
Discussant: Maria Pia Lara, Philosophy Department,
NSSR
Room: 913
PANEL
3
Historical
Contentions:
Religion, Civic Life and Secularism in the United States
- Statistics,
Secularism, and Skills: How and Why Public Education Stopped Caring
about the
Good Life
- Navigating
the contentious tradition . . .
- Sacred Spaces for
Not-So-Secular Jews
- Church
and
State: American History in Transatlantic
Perspective, 1890-1990.
Discussant: Oz Frankel, History Department, NSSR
Room: 906
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
PANEL 4
The
Sacred and the Public
Sphere:
Social and Cultural Signs
- St. Patrick's
Church
- Bahai World
Center, Ruhi Institute
- The
Plastic Palm and Memories in the Making
Discussant: Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology Department,
NSSR
Room: 913
PANEL 5
Epistemological
Disruptions:
Thinking and
Conceptualizing the Permanence of the Sacred
- Can we Speak of
Violence, A 'Thing Itself'
- The
Spiritual Particular: A
New "Foundation"
for Human Rights
- "The Form and
Formlessness of the Sacred for the
College de Sociologie"
- Semantic Ordering: A
Theoretical Concept with Potential Application to Law and
Religion
Discussant: Hauke Brunkhorst, Flensburg University
Room: 908
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:30
Roundtable:
Thinking the Sacred in the Modern World
Participants:
- Andrew
Arato, Sociology Department, NSSR
- Bruce Robbins,
Columbia University, Dept. English and
Comparative Literature
- Romain Bertrand,
Sciences Po-NSSR
Moderator:
- Banu Bargu, Politics
Department, NSSR
Room:
913
17:30
Reception
Refreshments will be provided
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