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

Levantine Cultural Centre

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)

Middle East Centre

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Room G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE

 

 

June 9-11 (Vienna)

Conference on "Modes of Secularism and Religious Responses"

Institute for Human Sciences

 

 

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

Embassy of Canada, Turkey

 

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