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Hatred Old and New: The Roots and Resurgence of Antisemitism

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September 17, 2019 / 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
Doe Library

Note: An RSVP for this event is requested. Panelists: Robert Braun, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. Expertise: Jewish-Christian relationships in the Low Countries John Efron, Koret Professor, Department of History.Expertise: Cultural and social history of German Jewry Ethan Katz, Associate Professor, Department of History.Expertise: Jewish-Muslim relations and the Jews of modern France and its empire […]

Hatred Old and New: The Roots and Resurgence of Antisemitism

Religion and Reproductive Health Care in 2019

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September 05, 2019 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
440 Stephens Hall

Bishops and Bodies: Religion and Reproductive Health Care in 2019 Panelists: Amy Littlefield (Rewire.News), Arthurine Zakama (UCSF), Karen Scott (UCSF), Lisa Ikemoto (UC Davis) and Olga Smith (UCSF) Moderators: Lori Freedman (UCSF) & Ronit Stahl (UCB) In Spring, 2019, the UC Regents deliberated a proposed affiliation between UCSF and Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital […]

Conversation - Seminar with Vicki Spencer: Toleration in Comparative Perspective - After Christchurch

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April 16, 2019 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Discussants include: Vicki A Spencer+ (Otago University, New Zealand), Purushottama Bilimoria (Moderator) (GTU & UC Berkeley), Christopher Ocker (GTU, Berkeley, Chair Historical and Cultural Studies), Alexander von Rospatt (UC Berkeley), Aaron Grizzell (GTU & Nor Cal Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation), Munis Faruqui (UC Berkeley), Dan Blanton (UC Berkeley) The idea that toleration is a uniquely modern Western concept based […]

Conversation - Seminar with Vicki Spencer: Toleration in Comparative Perspective - After Christchurch

Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan

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April 09, 2019 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
ABSW Chapel, 2606 Dwight Way

Talk by Sociologist Sadia Saeed on her new book, Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan, an examination of how the contentious relationship between Islam, nationalism, and rights of religious minorities has been debated and institutionalized in colonial India and Pakistan. The movement away from secularist practices and toward political Islam is a prominent trend across […]

Subjunctive Explorations - Fictive Sufi Tales of Early Modern Bengal: The 2nd ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World

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April 05, 2019 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
UC Berkeley

Tony Stewart is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities and Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is a specialist in the religions and literatures of the Bengali-speaking world. His work on Vaisnava traditions of Hindu Bengal was titled The Final Word: the Caitanya Caritamrta and the Grammar of Religious […]

Subjunctive Explorations - Fictive Sufi Tales of Early Modern Bengal: The 2nd ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World

Captivated by the Mediterranean: Early Modern Spain and the Political Economy of Ransom

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March 04, 2019 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Daniel Hershenzon, Associate Professor of Literature, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut

This talk explores the entangled experience of Muslim and Christian captives and by extension the connected histories of the Spanish Empire, Morocco, and Ottoman Algiers in the 17th-century. It argues that piracy, captivity, and redemption shaped the Mediterranean as an integrated region—at the social, political, and economic levels. The history that emerges of the captivities of […]