[Sarai Newsletter] CSDS Golden Jubilee Lectures

[The Sarai Programme]

*LECTURE I*



Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture



*Democracy of Public Spaces: World Wide Protests*

by *Nilüfer Göle*


*Aditya Nigam *will Chair

Thursday, 5 December 2013, 5.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





We are witnessing a new type of worldwide protest. From the Arab world to
the western capitals, from Turkey to Brazil, a wave of protest movements,
in spite of the differences among them, all use public space to manifest
new forms of citizenship. They all reveal a gap between social agency and
the political agenda - and solicit new approaches to established concepts
of democracy. They open up a new public space for democratic imaginaries,
bringing the micropolitics of everyday life into the realm of democracy.



*Nilüfer Göle* is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales - in Paris. She works on religious and cultural
difference in Europe and the modes of Islamic visibility in the public
sphere. She is the author of *Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism
and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism*. Her pioneer work on the contemporary
Islamic headscarf, *The Forbidden Modern: Veiling and Civilization* has
been published in several languages.  She edited a book on *Islam and
public controversies in Europe*, forthcoming in January 2014.



*Aditya Nigam *is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.





*LECTURE II*



Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture



*United States, China, India: Secular States and*

*Regimes of Religious Pluralism*

by* José Casanova*



*Shail Mayaram*

Friday, 6 December 2013, 5.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





The United States, China and India represent three different types of
secular state with very different regimes of regulation of religion and
different systems of religious pluralism.  All three countries are
characterized by pronounced religious diversity, yet have very different
models of ‘religion’ and different constitutional principles of freedom of
religion. As post-colonial states, all three have developed their systems
in dynamic contraposition with European patterns, while drawing differently
upon their pre-colonial histories and heritages in the mutual constitution
of the religious and the secular.



*José Casanova* is Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Berkley
Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He
has published works on a broad range of subjects, including religion and
globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions,
and sociological theory. His best-known work, *Public Religions in the
Modern World* has been translated into six languages and is forthcoming in
Indonesian, Farsi and Chinese. He is the author of *Europa’s Angst vor der
Religion* and *Genealogías de la Secularización*.



*Shail Mayaram *is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.
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