Events

Monday, Sep 17, 2007, 6:15pm, Heyman Center Common Room, East Campus

""Territory, Authority, Rights""

Sudhir Venkatesh - Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Craig Calhoun - President, Social Science Research Council
Saskia Sassen - Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Thursday, Sep 13, 2007, 6:15pm, Davis Auditorium, Shapiro Center

"Global Poverty: What Are Our Obligations?"

Peter Singer - Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

Monday, Oct 8, 2007, 8:00pm, Altschul Auditorium

""What Use is Aid?""

Peter Singer - Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
William Easterly - Professor of Economics, co-director Development Research Institute, New York University
Joseph Stiglitz - Professor of Economics, Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Friday, Nov 16, 2007, 6:15pm, Heyman Center Common Room, East Campus

""Why We Need a Global Hisotry of Political Thought""

John Dunn - Professor of Political Theory, University of Cambridge

Friday, Dec 7, 2007

Janaki Bakhle - Professor of History, Columbia University

Friday, Nov 16, 2007

"Locke on Toleration"

John Dunn - Professor of Political Theory; University of Cambridge

Friday, Nov 9, 2007

"Acculturation or Tolerance? Interfaith Relations in Mughal North India ca.1750"

Sanjay Subrahmanyam - Professor of History, UCLA

Friday, Oct 26, 2007

Saba Mahmood - Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Friday, Oct 12, 2007

"Imperialism and Global Citizenship"

James Tully - Professor of Political Science; University of Victoria

Friday, Oct 5, 2007

"Gender, Religion and Imperial Rivalry in the Nineteenth Century"

Lydia Liu - Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Friday, Sep 14, 2007

"Classical Learning and Conventional Wisdom"

Timothy Brennan - Professor of English & Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota

Monday, Jan 1, 0020, 4:10pm

"Types of Religiosity"

Abdulkarim Soroush - Visiting Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Columbia University

Monday, Jan 1, 0020, 4:10pm, 930 Schmerhorn

"Religion, Secularism and Public Reason"

Craig Calhoun - Director, Social Science Research Council

Monday, Jan 1, 0020

"TBA"

Orhan Pamuk - Professor of Middle Eastern Literature, Columbia University; Nobel Laureate, Literature 2006