Religion and the State
March 26-28, 2009
In cooperation with
The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, UW-Madison
March 26, 7:30 PM - Plenary Address: "Who's Afraid of American Religion?"
Alan Wolfe
Founding director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
at Boston College
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30 PM
Gale VandeBurg Auditorium
The Pyle Center, Room 121
702 Langdon Street
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PROGRAM
All conference sessions will take place in the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, room DE 335
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
8:30-9:00: Registration, refreshments
9:00-9:30: Conference Introduction
9:30-11:30: Session 1: Religion in the Curriculum
Chair, Michael Thomas, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison
Lester Hunt, Department of Philosophy, UW-Madison
Simone Schweber, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison
Susan Douglass, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Georgetown University
2:00-4:00 Session 2: Religion and the State in the Modern Middle East
Chair, Nadav Shelef, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
Ovamir Anjum, Religious Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Malika Zeghal, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Gideon Sapir, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
8:30-10:30 Session 3: Religion and Citizenship
Chair, Donald Downs, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
Stephen Macedo, Director, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Loren Lomasky, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia
Patrick Wolf, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas
11:00-1:00 Session 4: Limits of Tolerance
Chair, Steve Nadler, Department of Philosophy, UW-Madison
Sherman Jackson, Arthur W. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of
Michigan
Robert Tsai, Washington College of Law, American University
Howard Schweber, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
2:30-4:30 Session 5: Religion and Public Reason
Chair, Leonard Kaplan, Mortimer M. Jackson Professor of Law, UW-Madison
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Emeritus, Yale University
Richard Boyd, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Mohammad Fadel, School of Law, University of Toronto