Activities

2013-2014

In its second year, Religions and Public Life will be facilitating projects in religions and development/humanitarianism; religions and the environment; Islam and the media; and forging new connections with Global Health.

Spring 2013

• A graduate seminar:  ”A Paradoxical Politics? Religions, Poverty, and the Re-imagining of Citizenship within a Globalizing World”
• A series of guest speakers in conjunction with the seminar course, including:
  • Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Catholic Archbishop of Chicago | Feb. 12
  • José Casanova, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University | Feb. 19
  • Ruth Marshall, University of Toronto | Feb. 26
  • Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University | Mar. 5
  • Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen | March 26
  • Susan Holman, Global Health Institute at Harvard University | April 9

 

Fall 2012

• The KIE Campus-Grant-funded Ethically Formed? Symposium on Religion, Ethics, and Politics, co-sponsored by Duke Divinity School (Sept. 24-25)
• Dinner with faculty to define the scope of Religions and Public Life, generate curricular and cross-curricular points of conversation, and make plans for the future