Berlin - Cultural Pluralism Revisited: Religious and Linguistic Freedoms

Date: April 7th-9th, 2010
Time: 6:00pm
Where: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin), Room A 300, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785, Berlin, Germany

Event Description: In three public lectures, internationally renowned scholars of cultural studies, sociology of religion, law, and a writer who has often contested the boarders of language, will engage in the intriguing, complex and vexing reality of cultural pluralism today and its challenges.

Schedule:

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6 p.m.
Paul Gilroy
Postcolonial Pluralities:
Towards a Habitable Multiculture

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 6 p.m.
Feridun Zaimoglu
Kanak Attack Reloaded
(Reading of the English Part: Harvey Friedman)

Friday, April 9, 2010, 6 p.m.
Susanne Baer
Human Rights Revisited: Constitutionalism under
Contemporary Global Conditions
Followed by a panel discussion with
José Casanova and Fernand de Varennes

Reception after each lecture.

All lectures are held in English.

Registration: Please respond by March 26, 2010, to info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
Fax: (+49) 030 -25491-684