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In the Shadows of Whiteness: Race, Religion, and Radicalization in the Time of Pandemics

Public Forum on Religion and Pandemic

March 05, 2021 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Google

Terence Keel, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, and Osagie K. Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

While the recent January 6th insurrection at the Capitol can be seen as a culmination of a longer history of racialized violence and white nationalism in the United States, the failure to unilaterally condemn it at the top levels of government exposes a critical turning point in the state of U.S. politics and society today. […]

In the Shadows of Whiteness: Race, Religion, and Radicalization in the Time of Pandemics

Reimagining Nationalism: Yael Tamir In Conversation with Daniel Sargent

Rationality, Ritual, and Democratic Decision-Making: Perspectives from Classical Athens

Public Forum on Religion and Pandemic

October 16, 2020 / 10:00 am - 11:30 am / Add to Google

Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan) and Josiah Ober (Stanford University), Moderated by Emily Mackil (UC Berkeley, Department of History and Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology) and Duncan MacRae (UC Berkeley Department of Classics)

As the November 2020 General Election approaches, the nature of democratic decision-making is a question of vital importance for participants in American democracy. How do communities make collective decisions? Do democratic institutions encourage more rational choices? Or irrational ones? How do religious ideas and practices shape the patterns and outcomes of community decision-making?

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