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A conference addressing the US failure to ratify the UNCRC The United States government has historically shown resistance to ratifying United Nations (UN) treaties aimed at solving humanity’s most pressing issues. In a conference focused on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Emory University asked why the United States would oppose…
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A report by the Task Force on Religion and US Foreign Policy In 2008, the Chicago Council on Global Affair’s Task Force on Religion and the Making of US Foreign Policy was formed to “advance understanding of the role of religion in world affairs and to develop a framework to appropriately integrate religion into U.S.…
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A conference on how state surveillance and policing affect gender dynamics Gender is how we define ourselves, how we communicate, and how we interact with each other as sexual beings. Sexuality involves the physical, embodied dimension of who we are. There are countless ways of living and expressing sexuality given the complexity and diversity of…
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A conference on findings from the study on religious authority in the Islamic World The Baker Institute’s New Guardians of Religion report led by A. Kadir Yildirim provides a comprehensive account of how the citizens of twelve countries in the Middle East perceive major religious figures. In March 2019, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…
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A report on religious authority and political power in the Islamic world Historically, political actors of many kinds have sought to define Islam for their own purposes: from colonizers seeking control over the resources of the Middle East to homegrown opportunists who aspire to regional dominance. In recent years, religious actors too have wielded notable…
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A book on how faith informs politics and self-definition on the international stage Religion, Identity, and Global Governance: Ideas, Evidence, and Practice (University of Toronto Press, 2011) is a book that addresses some of the central questions of religious studies: Is religious identity an independent social construct, or is it an extension of other social…
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CURA’s summer seminars about major religions on the world stage From 2002 to 2010, the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University held annual summer seminars to explore the world’s major religions. Sessions were taught by scholars from Boston University, partner institutions, and experts in religious studies as well as public…
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Featured Work: “Islam and the Promenades of Global Media,” with Nicole J. Allem, in Rethinking Religion and World Affairs, edited by Timothy S. Shah et al. (Oxford University Press, 2012) Upcoming Projects: An autobiographical novel about the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
