[Peace] speakers on today's Focus 580: Lawrence Rosen and
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Thu Apr 24 11:10:14 CDT 2008
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.
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