Conference Program
Friday, December 9 10:00-11:00am Welcome and Introductory Remarks Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University Riva Kastoryano, CNRS – CERI Overview of the Separation of Church and State Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University, (Historical considerations) Alain Touraine, EHESS (Social and political realities) 11:00-11:30am Coffee Break 11:30am-1:45pm Session 1: Religious Tolerance and Politics of Pluralism Chair and Discussant: Riva Kastoryano, CNRS – CERI Speakers: John Bowen, Washington University in St-Louis, Talal Asad, CUNY – Graduate Center (Understanding French Secularism) Jose Casanova, New School/University and Wiko Berlin, Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, (Laïcité and Gender) 1:45-3:00pm Lunch for all participants 3:00-5:15pm Session 2: Religion and Politics Chair and Discussant: Peter L. Berger, Boston University Speakers: Harvey Cox, Harvard University J.Brian Hehir, Harvard University (Foreign Policy) (to be confirmed) Catherine Grémion, CNRS-CSO – Sciences-Po (Local Religion in France) Martine Barthélemy, CEVIPOF – Sciences-Po, (Representation of laicité in French society) 5:15-6:00pm Reception for all participants Saturday, December 10 9:45am Coffee and pastries 10:00am-12:15pm Session 3: Juridical and Institutional Arrangements of Secularism Chair and Discussant: Daniela Caruso, Boston University Speakers: Florence Deloche, Sciences-Po (Debates on Religion in the European Constitution) Peter Schuck,Yale University (Separation and Accommodation in the US Constitution) James Whitman, Yale University (American and French Religiosity) 12:15-1:15pm Lunch for all participants 1:15-3:30pm Session 4: Islam and the Principle of Separation Chair and Discussant: Jocelyne Cesari, CNRS and Harvard University Speakers: Peter Skerry, Boston College (Islam in America) Nilufer Gole, MIT (Islam, Secularism and Democracy) Jonathan Laurence, Boston College Sophie Body-Gendrot, Université de Paris III – Sorbonne 3:30pm Coffee Break 4:00-5:00pm Session 5: Concluding Roundtable – The Future of the Separation of State and Religion Chair: Michele Lamont, Harvard University Speakers: Stanley Hoffmann, Alain Touraine, and Joan Scott |