These workshops are an opportunity to attend intensive, small-group discussions on specific topic. All workshops will begin at 10.00am on Sunday, April 21 and run until approximately 4.00pm. "Beyond Intolerance" will continue on Monday, April 22, 10:00am-4:00pm
Beyond Intolerance: Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and Sarajevo
Dijana Alic, Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia, currently working on "The Media Representation of Sarajevo:Manufacturing Cities Through War"Hani Asfour, Executive Director, Plan B Julian Beinart, Professor of Architecture and Chair, Architecture and Environmental Design; MIT Meron Benvenisti, Author, Jerusalem:The Torn City and Jerusalem:City of Stone; Former Deputy Mayor, Jerusalem; Founder, West Bank Data ProjectRajeev Bhargava, Fellow in Ethics, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, Author, "Religious and Secular Identities; author, Individualism in the Social Sciences Frederick W. Boal, Professor of Human Geography, Queen's University, Belfast; Author of numerous publications including Shaping A City: Belfast in the Late Twentieth CenturyJay Craig, Architect; Director, The Birmingham Bosnia Task Force Margaret Floyd, Professor of Art History, Tufts University Anna Hardman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Department of Economics, Tufts UniversityKanan Makiya, Author, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, and Uprising in the Arab World and the Monument: Art, Vulgarity, and ResponsibilityTony McCusker, Executive Director, Making Belfast Work, Northern Ireland Maria Ousseimi, Photojournalist, Caught in the Crossfire:Growing up in a War Zone; Documentary Filmmaker, Childhood Lost Andras Riedlmayer, Aga Khan Bibliographer and Archivist of Islamic Art and Architecture, Fogg Museum, Harvard University Hashim Sarkis, Architect; Director of Plan B, Beirut; Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Jane Schaller, Founding Director, Physicians for Human Rights David and Leona Karp Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology and the Humanities, New York University; Author, The Conscience of the Eye: the Design and Social Lif eof Cities Charles N. Tsckares, Architects, Childs Berman Tseckares, Inc. Jasminka Udovcki, Professor of Sociology, Massachusetts College of Art; Co-Author, Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare
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The Media Forum
Lamis Andoni, Reporter, The Jordan Times, Aman; Contributing Correspondent, The Christian Science MonitorJulian Crandall Hollick, Co Founder, International Broadcasting Association, Inc.; Producer, The World of Islam and Passages to India, National Public Radio;currently working on Living Islam Kemal Kurspahic, Editor, Oslobodjenje, Sarajevo Jim Landers, Former International News Editor, The Dallas Morning News; Recipient, 1994 Pulitzer Prize for special on "Vioence Against Women Around the World"Benjamin Pogrund, Former Religion Editor and Deputy Editor, Rand Daily Mail, South Africa Charles Sennott, Special Affairs and Investigative Reporter, Boston Globe; Author, Broken Covenant Mark Silk, Writer, Atlanta Journal Constitution; Author, Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America Paul Steinberg, Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Co-Author, Rehearsals for a Happy Death: Death and Command in the Underground Media of Hamas(forthcoming)Sandy Tolan; Executive Producer, Desert West Research and Information
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Religion and Conflict Resolution
Rajeev Bhargava, Fellow in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, Author, "Religious and Secular Identities; author, Individualism in the Social Sciences Jean Comaroff, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Chicago; Co-Editor, Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa Fred Dallmayr, Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame; Author, Beyond Orientalism: Essyas on Cross-Cultural Encounters Seyyed Ferjani, Islamic Renaissance Party, Tunisia Johan Galtung, University of Hawaii; Author, Buddhism: A Quest for Unity and Peace and Peace by Peaceful Means Yvonne Haddad, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Editor, The Muslims of America T.V. Sathyamurthy, Director, Centre for Contemporary Indian Politics, York University, London; Editor, Region, Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary IndiaBrad Stock, Christian Science Church; Former Director, International Security Studies Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts UniversityVirginia Strauss, Executive Director, Boston Research Center for the 21st Century
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Religion and Science
Adrienne Asch, Luce Professor in Biology, Ethicas and the Politics of Human Reproduction, Wellesley College Daniel Dennett, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea Sam Kounaves, Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University Everett Mendelsohn, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University; President, International Council for Science Policy Studies Donald Munro, Executive Director, American Scientific Affiliation; Professor of Biology, Gordon College
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