Conference on "Future of Secularism and the
Public Role of Religion in Post-Islamist Iran"
Lake Forest
College (Chicago)
March 24-26,
2010
Michigan
State University (James Madison College)
March 4, 2010
Creighton University
February 12, 2010 (New York)
Iran: Politics of Resistance Conference
November 21, 2009
"Rethinking Religion-State Relations in the Islamic Republic
of Iran: Ayatullah Montazeri and the Quasi-secularization of Islamic Political
Thought," paper at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Boston,
MA.
November 19, 2009
Lecture at Duke University on "Where Bernard Lewis Went
Wrong: Rethinking Secularism Across the Islam-West Divide," sponsored by
the Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Political Theory Workshop Series in the
Department of Political Science.
October 21, 2009
Lecture at the United Nations
Association-Boulder Chapter on Islamic Fundamentalism, Modernization and
Religious Politics: The Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective,
Boulder, CO.
October 13, 2009
Lecture at St. John's Cathedral on the Crisis of
Religion and Politics in the Middle East, sponsored by the Abrahamic Initiative
in Denver, Colorado.
October
13, 2009
Lecture
at Colorado College on "The Trauma of Modernization and the Rise of
Radical Religious Politics in the Muslim World," sponsored by the
Department of Political Science.
October 9, 2009
Discussion with Micheline Ishay (University of Denver) on Religion, Women and Human Rights in the Middle East at Naropa University Conference on Women's Rights and Human Rights in Islam, Boulder, Colorado.
October 3, 2009
"How Islam is Contributing to Liberal
Democracy in Turkey: Reflections on the Gulen Movement" at Multicultural
Mosaic Foundation in Denver, CO
September 15, 2009
Lecture on the Green Movement in Iran and the
Struggle for Democracy at Parker Public Library in Parker, Colorado.
Rethinking Secularism across the Islam-West Divide
SETA & Embassy of Canada - Ankara, Turkey, June 2009
June 8, 2009