Feb 21: To be Secular or Not? Talk with Rajeev Bhargava + Upcoming Events

[Emily Brennan]

To be Secular or Not: How Should States Deal With Religious Diversity?

A talk by
Professor Rajeev Bhargava
Distinguished Scholar in Residence
at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life and the Center
for Democracy, Toleration and Religion

Thursday, February 21, 2008
12-2pm
The Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1512
The talk will be followed by a reception.

Rajeev Bhargava is Director, the Center for the Study of Developing
Societies and the leading theoretician of secularism.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy,
Toleration and Religion, the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public
Life, and the Southern Asian Institute.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

• NEW DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF TURKEY
Monday, March 3, 9 a.m–5 p.m, Kellogg Center, International Affairs
Building, Room 1501: A conference on the possibility of amending the
current Turkish 1981 Constitution, written under great military-Kemalist
influence.

• TOLERANCE, DEMOCRACY AND SUFIS IN SENEGAL
Friday and Saturday, March 7-8, 9 a.m–5:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 9,
1–5p.m., Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501: A
conference on how Senegal's Sufi population has contributed to the
country's democratic development and culture, which also features the
Senegalese art exhibition "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban
Senegal” and a Sufi singer at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture.

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Emily Brennan
Assistant Director
Columbia University
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
80 Claremont Avenue, Room 306, MC 9611
New York, NY 10027
Tel. 212-851-4145
Fax. 212-851-0781

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Assistant Director
Columbia University
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
80 Claremont Avenue, Room 306, MC 9611
New York, NY 10027
Tel. 212-851-4145
Fax. 212-851-0781