The Challenges of Integration: Muslim Immigrants and Their Children in the United States and France

Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:30 am – 7:30 pm

1501 International Affairs Building

420 West 118th Street

A conference on the challenges faced by Muslim immigrants and their children in the process of integration in France and the United States.

Organized by Ousmane Kane (SIPA, Columbia) and Khadija Mohsen Finan (Science Po, Paris) with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Malika Zeghal, Rosemary Hicks, Mohamed Nimeir, Solenne Jouaneau, Ahmet Kuru, Louise Cainkar, Valerie Amiraux, Simona Tersigni, Ousmane Kane, Aminah Mohammed Arif, Hisham Aidi, Robert Lieberman, Mucahit Bilici, Mahamet Timera and Samim Akgonul.

Co-sponsored with Columbia University Seminar for the Study of Contemporary Africa; School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA); Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, & Religion (CDTR); Department of Religion at Barnard College; Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life (IRCPL); Middle East Institute; Institute of African Studies; Maison Française; The European Institute; Department of French & Romance Philology; Migration Working Group.

Divining the Message, Mediating the Divine

Thursday, April 1, 6-8pm, Friday-Saturday, April 2-3, 9:30am-8pm

Buell Hall, Columbia University

515 West 116th Street

A graduate student conference on the relationships between media, mediation, and religion.

For a full schedule, please visit:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/2010conference/schedule.html

Keynote speakers include BERNARD STIEGLER, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at Centre Georges-Pompidou, MARK C. TAYLOR, Chair of Religion at Columbia University, BRIAN LARKIN, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, and LYDIA LIU, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Co-sponsored with the Columbia University Department of Religion, the Barnard College Department of Religion, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, the Columbia University Graduate Student Council, the Columbia University Department of French and Romance Philology, and the Columbia University Maison Française.

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