Yale Conference "Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age"
Maryam J. Rutner
interested in attending.
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
4 - 5 April 2008
Yale University, USA
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/rps/secularism.htm
The two-day conference on Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age at
Yale University aims to enrich the debate fostered by the publication
of Charles Taylor?s A Secular Age (winner of the Templeton Prize,
2007). The conference will bring together prominent philosophers,
political theorists, historians, social scientists, theologians and
literary scholars who will from a variety of perspectives reflect on
the question: what does it mean to live in a secular age?
The conference papers address questions of secularism and religion in
relation to politics, identity, subjectivity, agency, time, space, and
modernity. In each panel, two or three speakers will present a brief
version of their papers, followed by the comments of the panel
respondent and an open discussion. In the final day of the conference,
Charles Taylor will deliver a keynote address in response to the
papers presented in the course of the conference. Varieties of
Secularism in a Secular Age is organized by Michael Warner, Professor
of English and American Studies at Yale University, with Craig Calhoun
and Jonathan Van Antwerpen.
The conference is sponsored by the MacMillan Center Initiative on
Religion, Politics, and Society, the Social Science Research Council,
the Department of English, and the Office of the Provost. The
proceedings of the conference will be published by Harvard University
Press as Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, edited by Craig
Calhoun, Jonathan Van Antwerpen, and Michael Warner.
For more information about the conference, please contact the
conference coordinator, Ate? Alt?nordu, at ates.al...@yale.edu.
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Maryam J. Rutner
Departmental Research Assistant
Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR)
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Columbia University