Toleration in Comparative Perspective
The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion is pleased to work in conjunction with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations to host the conference “Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents” from January 19-23, 2021, over Zoom. The conference 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. Each day will feature a thematic panel — on spaces, philosophy, law, political theory, and textual interpretation — that brings together speakers from across fields and disciplines. The conference will begin with a keynote address by Professor Denis Lacorne, senior research fellow with the CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po, Paris. His books in English include Religion in America: A Political History (Columbia, 2011) as well as Language, Nation, and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age (2004) and With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism (2005), both co-edited with Tony Judt.
The conference is open to the public, and we encourage anyone who is interested to register through this link.
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Schedule
Tuesday, January 19
Introduction and Welcome: Karen Barkey and Jonathan Laurence (9:30-9:45am PST // 12:30-12:45pm EST)
Keynote Address: Denis Lacorne (Sciences Po) (9:50-10:50am PST // 12:50-1:50pm EST)
Panel: Thinking Toleration (11am -1pm PST // 2pm -4pm EST)
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University)
- Fabio Rambelli (UC Santa Barbara)
- Sam Berrin Shonkoff (Graduate Theological Union)
- Commenter: Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
Wednesday, January 20 (11am -1pm PST // 2pm -4pm EST)
Panel: Minorities, Pluralism, Law
- Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America)
- Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
- Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)
- Commenter: Karen Barkey (UC Berkeley)
Thursday, January 21 (11am -1pm PST // 2pm -4pm EST)
Panel: Sacred Space and Tolerance
- Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University)
- Francesco Spagnolo (UC Berkeley)
- Elaine M. Fisher (Stanford University)
- Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio)
- Commenter: Anna Elizabeta Galeotti (University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli)
Friday, January 22 (9am -11am PST // 12pm -2pm EST)
Panel: Politics, Political Theory and Toleration
- Susanna Elm (UC Berkeley)
- Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia University)
- Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing
- Societies, New Delhi)
- Noah Dauber (Colgate University)
- Commenter: Simon Brown (UC Berkeley)
Saturday, January 23 (11am -1pm PST // 2pm -4pm EST)
Panel: Text, Translation, Interpretation
- Robert Alter (UC Berkeley)
- Hamza Zafer (University of Washington)
- William Bulman (Lehigh University)
- Commenter: David Marno (UC Berkeley)
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