[Peace] Fed: Public lectures

[C. G. Estabrook]

	[1] Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at
	4 pm in Levis faculty Center, 3rd Floor

	Speaker: Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im,
	Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University
	<http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1268>
	Title: "Islam and the Secular State:
	Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam"

	(This lecture is sponsored by the Program for the Study of
	Religion, the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm Lecture
	Series <http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm.php> and by
	the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.)

	Dr. An-Na'im will also be speaking the same day on
	"The Shari`a and Constitutionalism in Africa" in
	101 International Studies Building at noon
	as part of the Center for African Studies
	<http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/> Brown Bag Series.


	[2] Two Lectures in the Program for the Study of Religion
	Religion and Environmental Thought Series
	<http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/events/thoughtseries.html>

	Professor Michael S. Northcott, University of Edinburgh
	<http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/michaelnorth%20>

	"Clouds of Witness: Religion, Ethics and Global Warming"
	Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 4 pm
	Author's Corner, Illini Union Bookstore

	"The Genesis of Extinction"
	Friday, October 5th, 2007 at 4 pm
	Author's Corner, Illini Union Bookstore

	(These lectures will serve as book-signing events for the
	North American launching of Professor Northcott's book,
	A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming,
	published by Orbis.)

	Cosponsors for Professor Northcott's lectures include:
	Center for Advanced Study; The Environmental Council;
	Human Dimensions of Environmental Sciences; School of Earth,
	Society, and Environment; and the Environmental Ethics
	Discussion Group.
	
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