Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00 to 7:30 PM
Welcome:
Heddy Riss, Program Director of iGov, UC Berkeley
Keynote Lecture: Professor Olivier Roy, European University Institute, head of the Mediterranean program at RSCAS: “Religious Norms in the Public Sphere: Triumph or Defeat of Multiculturalism?”
Friday, December 11, 2009
9:30-10:30 AM
What is religious in “religious norms”? How to address or ignore the specificity of religion?
Patrick Haenni, Swiss Religoscope Foundation and Husam Tammam, Swiss Religoscope Foundation: “Minarets and Niqab's ... The State of the Debate in Islamic and Secular Public Spaces: Are There Non-religious Public Spaces?”
Christopher Kutz, UC-Berkeley Law School: "Understanding Liberalism in the Modern World"
Nadia Marzouki, Yale University: “Islam as an Object of Public Speech in France and North-America”
11:15-12:15 PM
Holistic models and real practices
Baudouin Dupret, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS): "What is Islamic Law? Looking at Legislative and Judicial Practices"
Alexandre Caeiro, Friedrich-Alexander-
Emran Qureshi, Harvard Law School: "Enforcing Religious-Political Norms: The Use of Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws in Muslim-Majority Polities” 12:15-12:45 PM Q&A 12:45-2:00 PM Lunch 2:00-3:00 PM When different paradigms compete or translate into one another Mohamed Jeghllaly, Hasan II University of Casablanca: “Exit, Voice, and Communal Loyalty: Religious Groups in the Open Political Configuration (Lebanon and other cases)” Amel Boubekeur, Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut: “The Impact of Islam’s Public Controversies on Religious Norms, in Particular Relation to Gender and Security.” Nicolas Pouillard, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies: "When Political Islam Meets the Left: The Political Uses of Alter-Globalist Activism among Islamist Parties, and the Interactions between Radical Nationalisms and Global Social Movements. The Case of Hezbollah (2003-2009)." Alexander Rosas, UC-Berkeley: “Diversification of the Republic: Muslims and Multiculturalism in Contemporary France.” 3:00-3:30 PM Q&A 3:30-3:45 PM Break 3:45-4:45 PM Recasting of religious identities under pressure and incentives: How states put constraints and make offers to recast religious identities Joseph Gardner, UC-Berkeley and Akasemi Newsome, UC-Berkeley: “Immigration and Nativization Policy in the Gulf Region.” Benjamin Boudreaux, UC-Berkeley: “A Model of Social Unity and Religious Accommodation” 4:45-5:15 PM Q&A 7:30 PM Dinner Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:30-10:30 AM How actors redefine the issue of religious norms Gersallah Abdelhafidh, University of Essenia: “Religious Norms of Students in Algeria and the Public Sphere” Stephane Lacroix, Sciences Po: "Saudi Arabia and the Debate over the Salafi Norm" Romain Seze, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: “Imams in France Facing Religious Deregulation" Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union: “E Pluribus Umma: Secular Fundamentalism and the Aesthetics of Islamic Norms” 10:30-11:00 AM Q&A 11:00-12:00 PM Roundtable discussion on the future of RPS network
Rajeev Bhargava, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi:“Why Indian Muslims want Secularism”
