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Convening

18
February
2021
Onine (Zoom)

Engaging with Difference, Religious Pluralism, and Building a Tolerant Civil Society

In this tenth conversation in the Global Religious and Secular Dynamics Discussion Series, Adam Seligman will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss such themes as civil society, trust, authority, collective belonging and the challenges posed by individualism and modern human rights discourse to any shared idea of a substantive public good.
19
January
2021
Online (Zoom)

Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents

This conference hosted by Reset DOC with The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion gathers scholars to talk about the ways in which religious toleration has been articulated and practiced in places and periods outside of modern “Western” history.
14
January
2021
Online (Zoom)

On Civil Islam, Education, Sharia Law and Ethics, and Democratization – A Conversation with Robert Hefner

Robert W. Hefner will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the background to and aftermath of his major work Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (2000) and the promises and limitations for democratization in Muslim-majority countries two decades later.
14
December
2020
Online (Zoom)

The Arab Winter and the Tunisian Exception in Context

10 years ago, an unprecedented season of uprisings and political and social changes – now referred to as the Arab Spring – swept North Africa and the Near East. Today, we are seeing transformations, considered unimaginable at the time, both internally and in the region’s balance of power. Reset DOC, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is organizing a two-day international conference that will look at what has been accomplished over these last ten years and how much road is left to go in rebuilding democracy in the region.
3
December
2020
Online (Zoom)

On Fundamentalism, the Ambivalence of the Sacred, and Contested Modernities – A Conversation with Scott Appleby

Appleby will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the Fundamentalism Project, its strengths and weakness, and the continuing validity of the category of fundamentalism or “strong” religion, as well as Contending Modernities, its originating assumption, and the project’s most important outcomes to date. They will also examine the ambivalence of the sacred and its power to both sacralize and desacralize violence, as well as religious contributions—particularly Catholic ones—to peacemaking.
24
November
2020
Zoom

The Divided Society After November 3rd

In the aftermath of last week’s vote, Reset DOC in collaboration with the Italian Academy at Columbia University and the Centro Studi Americani in Rome will host an event of world-renowned experts to examine the results of the November 3rd elections with an outlook towards the long-term effects of these deep semantic and cultural divisions.
5
November
2020
Online (Zoom)

Indian and Western Varieties of Secularism – A Conversation with Rajeev Bhargava

In this conversation, Bhargava will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss Indian secularism, as well as comparative secularism globally. They will examine the particular challenges that majoritarian Hindu nationalism presents to Indian secularism, the relationship between dual global crises of secularism and of democracy, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting both. They will also discuss U.S.-Indian relations in the context of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
2
November
2020

Europe at a Crossroads after the Shock

The pandemic shock, the “titanic”, but still on-paper, reaction with the Next Generation EU package, the multiple threats and tensions in the neighborhood and the “vanishing” momentum for democracy globally. Where is the EU heading after the shock(s) of 2020? A special double initiative by ResetDOC and Fondazione Corriere della Sera.
15
October
2020

Religion, Magic, Secularity, and Spirituality – A Conversation with Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen. His work focuses on religion and nationalism. Specifically, he is interested in a syntagmatic structure linking four concepts – religion, magic, secularity, and spirituality – and how they’ve emerged entangled in global colonial encounters between East and West. He also works on issues of refugees and religion, in addition to other modern global encounters, primarily between Asia and Europe. This conversation builds on four others in the ongoing Global Religious and Secular Dynamic Discussion Series.
24
September
2020

Religious and Secular Global Dialogue – A Conversation with Azza Karam

Dr. Azza Karam, secretary-general of Religions for Peace, will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the evolution of the role of major religious bodies and multinational faith-based organizations on the world stage and at the United Nations. They will then turn to topics of religious pluralism and mutual recognition of religions, examining the role of dialogue at different levels of engagement. This conversation builds on four others in the ongoing Global Religious and Secular Dynamic Discussion Series.