Today! Sharing Sacred Space + Upcoming Events
Emily Brennan
Thursday, February 14, 9:00am-7:00pm; Friday, February 15, 9:30am-12:30pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Chaired and organized by Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and
Public Affairs, this conference intends to focus on the role of sites
and spaces that are significant to more than one religion and on the
ways these religions engage each other in order to overcome and resolve
conflict.
For more details on the sessions and panel participants:
http://humanrights.columbia.edu/sacred_spaces
* UPCOMING EVENTS *
• TO BE SECULAR OR NOT: How Should States Deal With Religious Diversity?
February 21, 2–4 p.m, Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building,
Room 1512.
With Rajeev Bhargava, Director of the Center for the Study of Developing
Societies in Delhi and the leading scholar on Indian secularism.
• NEW DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF TURKEY: 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 SENEGA: March 7-8, 9 a.m–5:30 p.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