When:
Monday, May 18, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Where: University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Katelyn Marie Rashid
(847) 467-5314
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Religious Studies Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Professor Loren Lybarger
Associate Professor of Classics & World Religions, Ohio Univeristy
Senior Fellow, The University of Chicago, Divinity School
Title: "Palestinian Nationalism and Religion in the US Diaspora"
Abstract: Professor Lybarger will discuss the relationship of secularism to the Islamic revival in the Palestinian immigrant community by drawing on his field interviews and observations. He will also seek to use this perspective to raise questions about the ongoing debate about secularism generally.
Lunch Served