Lecture Series Winter 2015

April 20
David Liu
“Theorizing Diaspora and Conceptual Encounter”
Location and Time TBA

Lecture Series Winter 2014

Future Plural: Race, Religion, and the Secular in 21st century America

February 3
Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
“The Return of Political Theology: Postsecularism in the Wake of Liberalism”
6 PM
1022 Thayer

April 11
Maria Leichtman, Michigan State University
“Shi‘i Islamic Cosmopolitanism and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Senegal”
12 PM
1324 East Hall

April 17
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Time and Location TBA

Lecture Series Winter 2013

Future Plural: Race, Religion, and the Secular in 21st century America

February 28
Ann Burlein, Hofstra University
“Thinking the Secular (with Foucault) as Christianization-in-depth: Promises and Pitfalls”
4 PM
Rackham Building, West Conference Hall

March 15
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
“Secularization, the Colonial Subject, and the ‘Sexual Clash of Civilizations’”
4 PM
Rackham Building, West Conference Hall

April 4
Jeffrey Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
“The Anonymous Sovereign: Theo-Political Reflections on Race and Politics in America”
4 PM
1022 Thayer