Date:
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Time:
05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
"Author Meets Critics" panel discussion of John Bowen's
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Speaker:
John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, and Director of the Pluralism, Politics, and Religion Initiative, Washington University in St. Louis
Commentators:
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program
Mary Lewis, History Department, Harvard University
Amy Waldman,
The Atlantic and Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Co-sponsored by the Islam in the West Seminar Series (CMES) and the Social Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe Study Group (CES)