LAUNCH of Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life - Nov. 6

LAUNCH of Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Thursday, November 6, 2008
1:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library

To celebrate its inauguration, the Institute will host an afternoon of public lectures on religion in contemporary society with SALMAN RUSHDIE, THOMAS KRENS, CHARLES TAYLOR AND ORHAN PAMUK.

The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

"The Past and Future of Religion and Toleration"
Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library, 1-2:30 pm

• Toleration Faculty Working Group: Karen Barkey, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Ira Katznelson, Sudipta Kaviraj, Alfred Stepan, and Nadia Urbinati
• with CHARLES TAYLOR, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University

"Art, Religion and Politics: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi"
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, 3-4:30 pm

• THOMAS KRENS, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

"Religion and the Imagination"
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, 5-6:30 pm

• SALMAN RUSHDIE, whose Midnight s Children (1981) was recently named the best novel to have received the Man Booker Prize, in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan
• Opening Remarks by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University
• Introduction by ORHAN PAMUK, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature