[Soasiastudents] The Luce Symposium on Religion and Human Security May 8, 9, 2008

[Keith Snodgrass]

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*The Luce Symposium on Religion and Human Security May 8, 9, 2008 *

*UW Club*

*Comparative Religion Program*

*Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies*

*University of Washington, Seattle*

All events at University of Washington Club, UW Campus, Seattle

*THURSDAY, May 8*

*9:00 - 10:30 Discussant: * Christian Novetzke, University of Washington

   *ROWENA ROBINSON, * *Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of
   Humanities and Social Sciences*, *Indian Institute of Technology Bombay**
   *

      *Indian Muslim Leadership: Possibilities and Predicaments*

      *YÜKSEL SEZGIN, **University of Washington*

   *Human Security through Lenses of Human Rights: Progressive Religious
   Groups Working toward Advancement of Women's Rights*


   *SIPRA MUKHERJEE, * *Bhairab Ganguly College, University of Calcutta,
   India*


   *Being Hindu in Urban India: The Role of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission
   in Bengal*


   *KARENJOT BHANGOO, * *George Mason University,*&* Dispute Resolution
   Services, Los Angeles County Bar Association*

      *Religion, Resilience and Relationship: Civil Society in Malerkotla*

*10:30 – 10:45  Break*

*10:45 - 12:15 Discussant: *Steven J. Pfaff, University of Washington

      *BERNADETTE NADYA JAWORSKY, **Yale University * and

      *SARA CURRAN, **University of Washington*

      *Immigration, Religion and Human Security in the United States*

      *LUCIAN LEUSTEAN, **Aston University, Birmingham, UK*

   *Religion and Security Behind the Iron Curtain: The Orthodox Church and
   the Romanian Road to Communism**' *

      *EMILY A. MORRISON, **University of Washington*

   *Divided We Stand: The Religious Case against Reconciliation in Northern
   Ireland*


*12:30 – 1:25 LUNCH*

*1:30 - 3:00  Discussant: *Steven R. Smith, University of Washington

      *DANIEL ALFRED MÉTRAUX, **Mary Baldwin College*

   *Religion, Politics and Constitutional Reform in Japan:  How the Lay
   Buddhist Organization Soka Gakkai and Its Political Affiliate Komeito Have
   Thwarted Conservative Attempts to Revise the 1947 Constitution*

      *RANJANA MUKHOPADHYAYA, **Nagoya City University, Japan*

   *Religious Volunteerism, Faith-based NGOs and the Civil Society of Japan:
   Study of Transnational Voluntarism of Buddhist NGOs in Japan*

*3:00 – 3:30*

   Session on public policy impact and future symposium/speakers 2008-09.


   Announcements:  Transportation arrangements for dinner.


                     Confirm hotel shuttle to campus for tomorrow


   Confirm towncars to airport for departures

*6:00 PM*

   Dinner at Ciao Bella, *Transportation provided.*


   5137 25th Ave NE
   Seattle, WA 98105
   (206) 524-6989



* FRIDAY, May 9*

*9:00 - 10:30 Discussant: *Daniel Chirot, University of Washington

      *RICHARD FOX, **University of Chicago Divinity School*

   *Mediating security: Religion-Related Violence and the Islamic Press in
   Indonesia*

      *SHANE JOSHUA BARTER,** University of British Columbia*

   *Ulama, The State, & War:** * *Islam-State Relations in the Aceh Conflict
   *

      *SAYRES RUDY,** Amherst College*

   *Algerian Clients, Polish Workers, and the Flow of Religious Violence*

*10:30 – 10:45 Break*

*10:45 - 12:15 Discussant: *Daniel Chirot,* * University of Washington

      *JAYE A. HOUSTON,** University of La Verne*

   *Systems of Power and Human Security: Religion, Rape, Genocide-War*

      *GLADYS GANIEL, **Trinity College Dublin, Ireland*

   *Religion and Human Security in Zimbabwe: Evaluating the Role of
   Christian Organizations in Reconstruction and Reconciliation*

      *SULAYMAN KHALAF, **Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage*

   *The Matam: Exploring the Dynamics of a Community-Centered Religious
   Institution in Modern Bahrain *

      *AMY UNDERKOFLER*, *University of Washington*

   *Sect-sy Hamas: The Rise of a Violent Religious Market in Palestine*

*12:15 – 1:25 Lunch*

*1:30 - 3:00  Discussant:* Cabeiri Robinson, University of Washington

      *CHARLES McDANIEL, **Baylor University*

   *Reinventing the Brotherhood: The 1992 Cairo Earthquake and the
   Transformation of al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun *


   *MURAT SOMER, * *KoÇ University, Istanbul** *


   *Religious Non-State Actors and Secular Democracy: Evidence from
   Political Islam in Turkey*

      *JAMES AUGUSTO PIRES TIBURCIO, **University of Brasilia*

   *Human Security in Angola: The Role of Religious Non-State Actors*

*3:00 Wine Reception, UW Club upstairs.*


-- 
Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
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