[Peace-discuss] speakers on today's Focus 580: Lawrence Rosen and

[Stuart Levy]

Besides their talks later today/tomorrow, note that Lawrence Rosen
and Donny George Youkhanna are being interviewed on Focus 580 this
(Thursday) morning.  As I type this, Rosen just finished a good talk
and Donny George's is about to begin.


Thurs 10am
     "Protecting the Prophet: Understanding Muslim Reactions
      to the Danish Cartoon Controversy"

    Lawrence Rosen, Ph.D., the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of
      Anthropology at Princeton University
      and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

Thurs 11am
     "Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion and
      Nationalism in a Global World"

    Donny George Youkhanna, Ph.D., former Director General
      of the Iraq National Museum and Research Director of the
      Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage;
      Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology
      at the State University of New York in Stony Brook

Both interviews will be archived and available on the
internet afterward.  For this week they'll be at
    http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/focus/default.htm
After this week, follow the "Interview Archives"
link on the right-hand side of the above page.


And, you can see each of them speak in person:

    Thu 4/24  7:30pm  Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana, UofI campus

	Title: "Mayhem in Mesopotamia - the Protection of Iraq's Cultural Heritage"
	Speaker: Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, who was director of Iraq's National Museum
		at the time of US invasion

(and as Naeem Sheikh just posted...)

    Thu 4/24  4:00pm   Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St, U.
        Lawrence Rosen, Prof. of Anthropology, Princeton University

	In 2005-06 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad led to protests by
	Muslims worldwide.  The controversy became local when the Daily Illini
	published several of the cartoons. Professor Rosen will discuss why
	Muslims feel so intensely that they must protect the Prophet, and why
	the Prophet, seen not just as a messenger, war leader, and arbiter,
	but also in a master-disciple relationship proves the rule of necessary
	deference by being the most exceptional social tie of all.

    Fri 4/25  7:45pm   Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center, 106 S. Lincoln, U.
	CIMIC Friday Seminar on Friday the 25th of April

	Title: An Interpretation of Islamic Ideas of Justice
	Speaker: Lawrence Rosen, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton Univ.