Lecture location: 19 Washington Square North, Events Space
To attend, please RVSP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu
Tolerance is a demanding social project, as the strident, often violent claims of intolerance make clear. This year-long lecture series probes the complexities and modalities of tolerance, not solely as a matter of individual virtue but as a social and political challenge. The lectures explore the limits and demands of tolerance when under pressure by fervently held religious, sexual, social, and political beliefs. Following the 2009-10 series on the Cosmopolitan Idea, this program continues our investigation of core values of NYUAD, which is forging an unusually diverse community based on intercultural understanding and respect.
Secularism, Sex, and Religious Liberty
October 6, 2010 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Saba Mahmood Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, the University of California, Berkeley
Joan Scott Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Linda Gordon Professor of History, New York University
The 99
October 20, 2010 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Naif Al-Mutawa, Creator of The 99
The Global Diffusion of Multiculturalism: Universal Norms and Cultural Difference
November 10, 2010 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University
Catherine R. Stimpson University Professor, The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, NYU;
Dean Emerita, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA): The Benefits and Costs of the Law on Its Ten-Year Anniversary
March 8, 2011 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Daniel Dalton Dalton, Tomich, Pensler, PLC
Marci A. Hamilton Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Christopher Serkin Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Roderick M. Hills, Jr. William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective
March 28, 2011 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Bhikhu Parekh Member of the House of Lords; Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull
The Meaning of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration
April 11, 2011 | 6:30–8:00 PM
John Dunn Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, King's College, Cambridge
Ingrid Creppell Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Don Garrett Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Against Intolerance
April 21, 2011 | 6:30-8:00 PM
Patrice O’Neill CEO and Executive Producer, The Working Group
John Shattuck President and Rector, Central European University
Faye Ginsburg David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU
