1 Jul 2019 - 12 Jul 2019 | All day | CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
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Description
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University at CRASSH announces a second two-week summer workshop for early career scholars across the humanities and social sciences (Cambridge, 1-12 July 2019).
Following the successful Summer Workshop on “Religious Diversity and the Secular University” in July 2018 (for a digital record of the 2018 Summer Workshop see here), the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge invites applications from outstanding early career scholars to participate in a two-week summer workshop in July 2019, devoted to some of the most critical issues in the emergence of the modern university and our historical moment: the related questions of secularism and religious diversity.
Three world-class senior scholars will be in residence to lead the workshop:
- Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy, Columbia University)
- Tariq Modood (Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol)
- Zena Hitz (Classics/Philosophy, St John’s College, Anapolis)
- Miriam Leonard (Greek Literature, University College London)
For two weeks, fourteen junior scholars will work with the scholars-in-residence as well as with the members of the CRASSH project, Simon Goldhill, Theodor Dunkelgrün and Sami Everett. Together, participants will study a set of primary sources selected by the senior scholars and engage critically with work-in-progress by each participant.
We welcome applications from scholars in any academic discipline whose work relates to questions of secularism and the place of religion(s) in the modern university (since ca. 1800) and who will not be more than seven years beyond obtaining their doctorate (having been awarded their doctorate in July 2012 or later). Applications from doctoral students in the final stages of their dissertations may also be considered. We are keen to invite those across the humanities and social sciences who engage with the dynamics of religious interaction in historical, textual, and social perspectives, with the formation of academic disciplines that study religion(s) in one way or other and with the intellectual, methodological and conceptual foundations thereof.
The workshop will run from 1-12 July 2019. We shall award a maximum of twelve scholarships that provide up to £500 towards travel, as well as two weeks of room and board in Cambridge.
Applications are made online and should include a cv, two letters of reference, a writing sample and an indication of the topic of the likely work in progress for discussion. Applications will be accepted until midday on 1 December 2018.
‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’ is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to support a multi-disciplinary examination of the interplay between religion, secularism, and the role of the university, reference #41600622.
Programme
Monday 1 July 2019 |
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10:00 - 10:30 | Registration, Introduction and group photo |
10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Akeel Bilgrami (Readings: John Stuart Mill) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Mariëtta van der Tol ‘Public Order, Public Policy, and Religious Diversity in Universities’ Blogging: Rebekah Vince |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Shanon Shah ‘Lightning Rods in Debates on Religion and Secularism on University Campuses’ Blogging: Sami Everett |
17:45 | Welcome drinks and dinner, Granta Pub, Newnham Road |
Tuesday 2 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Akeel Bilgrami (Readings: John Rawls) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Emanuelle Degli Esposti ‘From Human Rights to ‘Shi’a Rights’, and Back Again: Ethics, Sectarianism, and Identity in the Secular Age’ Blogging: Mustafa Menshawi |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Cristóbal Bellolio ‘Why NOMA Fails: Liberalism and the Religion vs. Science Debate’ Blogging: Helena Wangefelt Ström |
Wednesday 3 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Tariq Modood (Readings: John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Simon Yin ‘Bodhisattva Citizen: The Identity Reconstruction of Buddhists in Modern China’ Blogging: Yuchen Lu |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Anagha Ingole ‘Religion in Indian Nationalisms: Genealogies and Possibilities of Integration’ Blogging: Shanon Shah |
Thursday 4 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Miriam Leonard (Readings: Karl Marx) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Artemis Ignatidou ‘Participatory Music and Cultural Integration: Local Solutions to Global Problems? A View from Athens, Greece’ Blogging: Vincent Favier |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Vincent Favier ‘Preaching and Teaching: Religiosity, Knowledge and Performance among Students and Lecturers in West-African Universities’ Blogging: Artemis Ignatidou |
Friday 5 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Tariq Modood (Readings: Rajeev Barghava and Tariq Modood) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Yuchen Lu ‘Religious Transformation and Secular Education in Modern China: A prosopography of Intellectual Elites’ Blogging: Simon Yin |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Niyousha Bastani ‘Risky Cognition and Politics at Risk: Educating a Secular Polity’ Blogging: Emanuelle Degli Espoti |
Monday 8 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Akeel Bilgrami (Readings: Isaiah Berlin and Quentin Skinner) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Sami Everett ‘La petite Jérusalem: from North African-ness to Orthodoxy’ Blogging: Mujadad Zaman |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Morteza Hashemi ‘Integration Through Blood Donation: Could we use Blood Donation Campaigns as Social Policy Tools?’ Blogging: TBD |
Tuesday 9 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Miriam Leonard (Readings: Jacques Derrida) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Zena Hitz ‘The Human Elements of Higher Education’ Blogging: Anagha Ingole |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Helena Wangefelt Ström ‘Lighting Candles Before a Headless Jesus’ Blogging: Niyousha Bastani |
Wednesday 10 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Zena Hitz (Readings: Yves Simon and Joseph Ratzinger) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Joel Hanisek ‘Solidarity and the Politics of Social Change in U.S. Missions to Iran’ Blogging: Mariëtta van der Tol |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Rebekah Vince ‘Arab-Jew or Pied-Noir Jew? Alternatives to Polarised Identity Positions in Slimane Benaïssa’s L’Avenir oublié [Forgotten Future] (1999)’ Blogging: Joel Hanisek |
Thursday 11 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Zena Hitz (Readings: George Steiner) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Akeel Bilgrami ‘Freedom versus Accountability in the Academy’ Blogging: Cristóbal Bellolio |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Mujadad Zaman ‘Imagination in the Anatheistic University: The Rise and Consequences of Islamic Theology in Europe’ Blogging: TBD |
18:45 - 22:00 | Summer School Dinner, The Green Man, Grantchester |
Friday 12 July 2019 |
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10:30 - 12:00 | Senior Scholar: Akeel Bilgrami (Readings: Charles Taylor) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Mustafa Menshawy ‘The Revolution of ‘Pronouns’: Shifts of Power and Resistance in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’ Blogging: Tania Saeed |
15:00 - 16:00 | Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Tania Saeed ‘Populism, Higher Education and the Student Activist: ‘Reimagining’ Britishness and ‘Crossing Borders’’ Blogging: TBD |