Brown Bag,Fri,Feb.8,12:30pm:Rajeev Bhargava:"Rehabilitating Secularism"
Maryam J. Rutner
A talk by
Rajeev Bhargava
Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, CSDS, in Delhi
Member of the SSRC Working Group on Rethinking Secularism
First Distinguished Senior Visiting Scholar of IRCPL and CDTR
Rajeev Bhargava is the major theoretician of the Indian model of
secularism. He is the editor of the book Secularism and its Critics
with contributions by Amartya Sen, Akeel Bilgrami, Charles Taylor, T.
N. Madan, and Parta Chatterjee. Two of his most recent works are "The
Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism," in T.N. Srinivasan, ed., The
Future of Secularism (Oxford, 2007), and "Political Secularism" in
John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Philips, eds., The Oxford
Handbook of Political Theory (Oxford, 2006).
Date: Friday, February 8, 2008
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1134
This Brown Bag talk is co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the
Humanities; the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and
Religion (CDTR); the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
(IRCPL); and the Southern Asian Institute.
Please contact Shashank Mohan for further questions at sm2...@columbia.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