Symposium: Thinking Through Tradition, Politics, and Violence

Name: Symposium: Thinking Through Tradition, Politics, and Violence — The Committee on Globalization and Social Change
Start: 2015-04-24T13:00:00+0100
End: 2015-04-24T19:00:00+0100
Location: Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center

Friday, April 24, 2015
1:00 PM 7:00 PM 13:00 19:00

Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10016 United States (map)

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A one-day symposium featuring Talal Asad (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Wael Hallaq (Columbia University) about Asad’s essay “Thinking about Tradition, Religion and Politics in Egypt Today”, and a talk by Judith Butler (University of California Berkeley and Columbia University) on “Interpreting Non-Violence.”

This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology.

Tentative Event Schedule

Part I: 1 – 3:30 pm
Opening remarks from Gary Wilder

Judith Butler “Interpreting Non-Violence”

Break: 3:30 – 4:15

Part II: 4:15 – 6:30 pm
Talal Asad in conversation with Veena Das and Wael Hallaq about the essay “Thinking about Tradition, Religion and Politics in Egypt Today”

Reception to follow in Room 5109

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