Engagements
2012
January 14 (Denver, CO)
"The Arab Spring: Critical Reflections on the First Anniversary"
Multicultural Mosaic Foundation
6:00 pm
January 26 (San Diego, CA)
University of California - San Diego
The Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement
February 7 (Denver, CO)
Highlands Ranch Public Library
Talk on the Arab Spring and Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East
6:45 pm
February (Portland, OR)
Edward Said Lecture Series - Portland State University
Why Tunisia and Egypt but not Iran (yet)?"
March 23-25 (London, Ontario)
University of Western Ontario
Keynote talk on Islam and Democracy at Conference on Islam & Democracy
March 29-31 (Cambridge, UK)
Cambridge University
Conference on Rethinking Islam-West Relations
British Council - "Our Shared Future" Project
April 15 (Omaha, NE)
University of Nebraska
Workshop on the Arab Spring
April 18-20 (Wildbad Kreuth, Germany)
German Political Science Association
Keynote talk on "The Idea of Democracy in Islamic Thought"
2011
November 11 (Denver, CO)
Lecture on the Arab Spring: Implications for US Policy
Downtown Democratic Forum
Location: Hotel Curtis (14th and Curtis)
7 am
Information: Doug Schroeder deschr@q.com
November 10 (Boulder, CO)
Lecture on the Arab Spring and Iran in Comparative Perspective
University of Colorado-Boulder
5 pm
November 5, 2011 (Denver, Colorado)
University of Denver Law School - Conference on the Arab Spring
Details: forthcoming
November 3-4, 2011 (Washington, DC)
US Foreign Policy, the Green Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran
October 27, 2011 (Boise, Idaho)
Conference on the Arab Spring
Frank Church Institute, Boise State University
October 12 (Boulder, CO)
Panel Discussion on Islamophobia
University of Colorado-Boulder
5 pm (UMC - Aspen Auditorium)
September 29 (Boulder, CO)
Talk on "The Muslim Brotherhood: What is it?"
Boulder Public Library (Main Branch)
1 pm
September 10, 2011 (Denver, Colorado)
Reflections
on 9/11: Ten Years Later - Panel Discussion
http://www.mosaicfoundation.org/Invitations/911Reflections.htm
September 7, 2011 (Fort Collins, Colorado)
International
Colloquium on Managing Global Conflict Ten Years after 9/11
Panel
Discuss on the Middle East in Transition
Time:
3:30 pm
Location:
Colorado State University, Grey Rock Room
http://wsprod.colostate.edu/cwis30/2007/main/forms/conflict_coll/Schedule.pdf
June 17 (Denver)
Lecture
on the Iranian Revolution
Museum
of Contemporary Art
Time:
6:30 pm
Details:
http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/programs/Mixed_Taste_Summer_Series
January 19, 2011 (Denver)
Bridges
to the Future Faculty Lecture
"Retrospective
Reflections on the Crisis of Religion and Politics in the Muslim World: Ten
Years After 9/11"
Location:
University of Denver, Sturm 451
Time:
7:00 PM
RSVP:
http://www.du.edu/bridges/upcoming-events.html
February 4, 2011 (Chicago)
Book
Launch for Anthology on Iran's Green Movement
Location:
Chicago Temple
Details:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=169960436375987
February 11, 2011 (Boston)
Panel
Discussion on the Green Movement & the Struggle for Iran's Future
Location:
MIT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189796464367704#!/event.php?eid=158104460904615&index=1
February 25, 2011 (New York)
Panel
Discussion on the Green Movement & the Struggle for Iran's Future
Location:
Columbia University
Details
at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189796464367704
March 15, 2011 (Washington DC)
Conference
on Iran and Human Rights
Details:
http://www.niacouncil.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=100721
April 7-8, 2011 (East Lansing, Michigan)
Conference
on Rethinking Islamic Studies: Implications for the Social Sciences
Location:
Michigan State University
Details:
http://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu
April 17, 2011 (Washington DC)
Book
launch and Discussion - Bus Boys and Poets
Website:
http://www.busboysandpoets.com
Time:
6:30 pm
April 21, 2011 (Washington DC)
Conference
on Iran
Institute
for Middle East Studies, George Washington University
Website:
http://www.gwu.edu/~imes/
May 1, 2011 (Denver, CO)
Lecture: Can the Freedom
Uprisings Succeed in the Middle East and North Africa?
Jefferson United Church (Golden, Colorado)
Time: 6:30
pm
May 10, 2011 (Boise, Idaho)
Lecture: Revolution and
Political Change in the Arab World
Boise Committee on Foreign Relations
Time: 7:00
pm
Information:
richard@rsaboise.com
May 11, 2011 (Los Angeles)
Panel discussion with Reza Aslan and Muhammad
Sahimi on comparative democratic struggles in the Middle East
Time: 7:00 pm
Details: http://www.experiencela.com/calendar/event/37673
May 16-17, 2011 (Abu Dhabi)
Conference on Islam-West Relations
May 18-19, 2011 (Kuwait)
American University of Kuwait
Lecture: Why Tunisia and Egypt and not (yet)
Iran?
Information: girani@auk.edu.kw
May 24-25, 2011 (Washington DC)
Georgetown University Conference on
"Deconstructing the Clash of Civilizations"
Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
May 26-28, 2011 (Onati, Spain)
Conference on "Charles Taylor's A Secular Age:
Beyond the West"
June 3, 2011 (Denver, Colorado)
Colorado Chapter of the American Bar Association
Lecture: "The Future of Egypt: Reflections on
Law and Religion"
Location: University Club of Denver
Time: 6:00 pm
June 6, 2011 (London)
Panel Discussion on the Green Movement and the
Struggle for Democracy in Iran with Roger Cohen, Ziba Mir Hosseini. William
Lucas, Ali Alizadeh and Danny Postel.
School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre
for Iranian Studies, University of London
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: G2 Lecture Theatre, Thornhaugh Street ·
Russell Square
Details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186862061359866
June 7, 2011 (London)
Iran's Green Movement and the Arab Revolutions:
A Comparison
London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE)
Time: 6:30
pm
Location: Room G108, 20 Kingsway,
LSE
June 9-11 (Vienna)
Conference on "Modes of Secularism and Religious Responses"
2010
November
11, 2010
Denver Film
Festival
"A
Discussion about Iranian Films, Politics and Society"
September
30 - October 2, 2010
Baylor
University (Two Events)
·
Ground Zero Mosque: Reflections on Islamophobia and Religious Freedom
·
Conference on "Encountering the Jewish Future: A Global
Conversation"
May 21,
2010
A Public Conservation with Abdullahi-An-Na'im on Islam and Secularism
Noor Cultural Centre (Toronto)
May 14-15,
2010
University of Toronto
Conference on "Civil Society and Democracy in Iran: Canadian and
Comparative Perspectives"
May 12, 2010
US and
Persian Gulf Security
Highlands
Ranch Library
Time:
6:45PM
For more
information email: tpoliseo@dclibraries.org
March
27-28, 2010
Conference
on "Future of Secularism
and the Public Role of Religion in Post-Islamist Iran"
Lake
Forest College (Chicago)
March 24-26, 2010
Michigan State University (James Madison College)
March 4, 2010
Creighton University
February
12, 2010 (New York)
Iran: Politics of Resistance Conference
November
21, 2009
"Rethinking Religion-State Relations in the Islamic Republic of
Iran: Ayatullah Montazeri and the Quasi-secularization of Islamic Political
Thought," paper at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Boston,
MA.
November
19, 2009
Lecture at Duke University on "Where Bernard Lewis Went Wrong:
Rethinking Secularism Across the Islam-West Divide," sponsored by the Duke
Islamic Studies Center and the Political Theory Workshop Series in the
Department of Political Science.
October 21,
2009
Lecture at the United Nations
Association-Boulder Chapter on Islamic Fundamentalism, Modernization and
Religious Politics: The Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective,
Boulder, CO.
October 13,
2009
Lecture at St. John's Cathedral on the Crisis of Religion and Politics in
the Middle East, sponsored by the Abrahamic Initiative in Denver, Colorado.
October 13, 2009
Lecture at Colorado College on "The
Trauma of Modernization and the Rise of Radical Religious Politics in the
Muslim World," sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
October 9, 2009
Discussion with Micheline Ishay (University
of Denver) on Religion, Women and Human Rights in the Middle East at Naropa
University Conference on Women's Rights and Human Rights in Islam, Boulder,
Colorado.
October 3, 2009
"How Islam is Contributing to Liberal
Democracy in Turkey: Reflections on the Gulen Movement" at Multicultural
Mosaic Foundation in Denver, CO
September 15, 2009
Lecture on the Green Movement in Iran and the
Struggle for Democracy at Parker Public Library in Parker, Colorado.
June
2009
Rethinking Secularism across the Islam-West Divide
SETA & Embassy of Canada - Ankara, Turkey
June
8, 2009