Religion and Nationalism: Iraq in Comparative Perspective, October 8, 2007
The second session of the 2007-2008 Harvard CES Berlin Dialogues, "Religion and Nationalism: Iraq in Comparative Perspective" will take place on Monday, October 8, 2007, from 18.00-20.00 (Reception begins at 17.30) at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin. The session will focus on the triggers for religion and violence in the Middle East and the Balkans, with special emphasis on Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Bosnia. Of interest is the role of religion and of politics, when and why they meet, and the results. The session will be chaired by Steffen Hagemann, Assistant for Politics and Culture, Free University Berlin, writing on "Between Quietism and Violence: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel and Protestant Fundamentalism in the US."Speaking will be:
- Prof. Amatzia Baram, Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa, Israel; specialist in Arab national thought and political Islam with emphasis on the Shi’a
- Prof. David Little, T.J. Dermot Dumphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School
- Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, specialist on Lebanon and violence.
To register, please email ces-ber at fas.harvard.edu by Friday October 5
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