The Yale Conference on Religion & Violence

ORGANIZED BY:

Vivek Sharma

Faculty Coordinator
vivek.sharma@yale.edu

Paul Pinto

Graduate Student Coordinator
paul.pinto@yale.edu

Nancy Phillips

Administrative Coordinator
nancy.a.phillips@yale.edu

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - Click on titles to download papers.

8:30am – 9:00am              Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am             Keynote Address

R.I. MOORE, Newcastle University

Religion, Violence and the Historian

Q & A to follow


10:30am – 12:45pm         PANEL ON RELIGION AND VIOLENCE IN THE PREMODERN WORLD

MACK HOLT, George Mason University

Que sais-je? Religious Violence, Certainty, and Doubt in the French Wars of Religion

HUGH KENNEDY, University of London

Was Islam Spread by the Sword? The Early Muslim Conquests Revisited

Discussant: PAUL PINTO, Yale University

12:45pm – 2:30pm           Lunch


2:30pm – 4:45pm             PANEL ON RELIGION AND VIOLENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD

PAUL BRASS, University of Washington, Seattle

Forms of Collective and State Violence in South Asia

JENNIFER TODD, University College, Dublin

Religion and Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland

MALIKA ZEGHAL, University of Chicago Divinity School

September 11, Violence, and the Construction of a Liberal Islam

Discussant: PAUL KENNY, Yale University


6:30pm – 9:00pm             Dinner