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