Western Muslims and the Public Sphere
3:00 PM on Friday Mar. 19th, 2010
Bell Canada Theatre, Minto Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
3:00 PM on Friday Mar. 19th, 2010
Bell Canada Theatre, Minto Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Event:
Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim intellectual and public figure who has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the 21st century’s most innovative thinkers. He will deliver a talk entitled Identity and Engagement: Western Muslims and the Public Sphere, sponsored by the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson fund in religious studies. The event is organized by the religion program in the College of the Humanities at Carleton University and the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam.
When:
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 19, 2010
Where:
Bell Canada Theatre, Minto Centre, Carleton University
Background:
Ramadan is professor of contemporary Islamic thought at Oxford University and holds the chair in citizenship and identity as visiting Professor at Erasmus University (the Netherlands). He is also senior research fellow at both Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College and Doshisha University (Kyoto) and is president of the European Muslim Network, a think-tank in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Radical Reform, In the Footsteps of the Prophet, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, To Be a European Muslim, and Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity. The British Prospect and the American Foreign Policy magazines placed him eighth in a list of the world’s top 100 contemporary intellectuals in 2008
Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim intellectual and public figure who has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the 21st century’s most innovative thinkers. He will deliver a talk entitled Identity and Engagement: Western Muslims and the Public Sphere, sponsored by the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson fund in religious studies. The event is organized by the religion program in the College of the Humanities at Carleton University and the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam.
When:
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 19, 2010
Where:
Bell Canada Theatre, Minto Centre, Carleton University
Background:
Ramadan is professor of contemporary Islamic thought at Oxford University and holds the chair in citizenship and identity as visiting Professor at Erasmus University (the Netherlands). He is also senior research fellow at both Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College and Doshisha University (Kyoto) and is president of the European Muslim Network, a think-tank in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Radical Reform, In the Footsteps of the Prophet, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, To Be a European Muslim, and Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity. The British Prospect and the American Foreign Policy magazines placed him eighth in a list of the world’s top 100 contemporary intellectuals in 2008