Fwd: Book Talk! Tues, October 14, 4:00 PM. "Religious Othering Today: Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Current Crises." Wallis Annenberg Conference Room

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From: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky <vhtro...@ucsb.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Subject: Fwd: Book Talk! Tues, October 14, 4:00 PM. "Religious Othering Today: Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Current Crises." Wallis Annenberg Conference Room

Dear all,

Please see the upcoming Orfalea Center event, with the participation of Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies), Dr. Kathleen M. Moore (Professor of Religious Studies), and Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Professor of East Asian Studies, Göttingen).

Kind wishes,

Vladimir

"Religious Othering Today Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Current Crises."

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO YOUR STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES Religious Othering Today Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Current Crises Tuesday, October 14, 2025 4:00 - 6:00 PM  Wallis Annenberg Conference Room Room (SSMS 4315) Join us for a Light Dinner  The Orfalea Center is proud to host a discussion of the role of religious othering in current crises, based on a volume produced by an Orfalea Center Research Hub. In their book, the co-editors Mark Juergensmeyer, Kathie Moore, and Dominic Sachsenmaier focus on the dynamics of othering in recent crises around the world. The upcoming discussion will tackle such questions as: How does Islamophobia and antisemitism play a role in contemporary political conflict? Why are new xenophobic movements erupting around the world at this moment in history, and what are the features of religious identity that seem to appeal to them? How do we make sense of the strident forms of religious exclusion that have been a part of the past and re-emerged around the world in recent years? Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology, and affiliate of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program (now the Global Studies Department) and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than three hundred articles and thirty books, including When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press, 2022), Why God Needs War and War Needs God (Oxford, 2025), God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society (University of California Press, 2015; co-authored with Dinah Griego and John Soboslai), and What Everyone Needs to Know About Religion and Violence (Oxford, forthcoming in 2026). His widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, fourth edition in 2017), is based on interviews with religious activists around the world; an earlier edition was listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. The first edition of a companion volume, Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008) was named by the New York Times as one of the notable books of the year. He has co-edited with Saskia Sassen and Manfred Steger The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies (Oxford University Press, 2017; Victor Faessel, Managing Editor), and has edited Thinking Globally: A Global Studies Reader (University of California Press, 2015), the Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Religion in Global Civil Society (Oxford University Press, 2005), and has co-edited The Encyclopedia of Global Religions (co-edited with WC Roof; Sage Publications, 2008) and The Encyclopedia of Global Studies (co-edited with Helmunt Anheier; Sage Publications, 2009). Kathleen M. Moore is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of the Legal Humanities Initiative. Her research examines how religion and politics intersect to construct “Muslim” as a public identity, drawing on anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of law and society. Her current work focuses on anti-Muslim racism and law in the United States, as well as the engagement of the conservative Christian legal movement with contemporary U.S. politics. She is the author of several books, including Religious Othering: Global Dimensions; The Unfamiliar Abode: Islamic Law in the United States and Britain; Muslim Women in America: Challenges of Islamic Identity Today (co-authored with Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane I. Smith); and Al-Mughtaribun: American Law and the Transformation of Muslim Life in the United States. Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”. Before coming to Göttingen in 2015, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his education at Freiburg University, St. Andrews University, Nanjing University and Harvard University. Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests include China’s transnational and global connections in the past and present. Furthermore he has published in fields such as Chinese concepts of society, the global contexts of European history and multiple modernities. For instance, he authored the monographs Global Perspectives on Global History (Cambridge UP, 2011), and Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled (Columbia UP, 2018). In addition to his academic publications, Sachsenmaier has also written for newspapers ranging from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to the Singapore Straits Times. Moreover, he has delivered a wide range of talks and keynote speeches, both in academic settings as well as at other institutions. Sachsenmaier serves on several editorial and advisory boards in Asia, Europe and the United States; he is one of the three editors of the book series Columbia Studies in International and Global History (Columbia UP). From 2014 to 2022, he served as the president of the US-based Toynbee Prize Foundation (where he continues being a board member). He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. Copyright © 2025 Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you previously interacted with us. 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Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Global Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

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