Webinar
Book-launch: Festschrift for Mark Juergensmeyer
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Mark Juergensmeyer is a world-renowned scholar, who has been a pioneer within the fields of global studies, conflict research and religious studies and whose methods have inspired integrated and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding globalization, peace and conflict as well as religious violence.
On the occasion of Mark Juergensmeyer’s retirement, the Danish Institute for International Studies and Uppsala University have come together to create a festschrift in cooperation with twenty-two leading scholars from around the globe. The festschrift celebrates the lifetime achievements of Mark Juergensmeyer and sheds light on scholarly debates and institutional processes where Juergensmeyer has contributed major insights and made an important impact.
This webinar launches the publication 'Religion, Conflict and Global Society – A Festschrift Celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer' and some of the authors will address the themes that the book takes up, such as conceptual debates on secularism, cosmic war, and the globalization of Global Studies.
Speakers
- Giles Gunn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and of Global Studies, as well as Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Gurinder Singh Mann serves as director of the Global Institute for Sikh Studies in New York, as well as the manager of “The Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies”
- Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, where he teaches global and European history and thought in the Department of Global Studies
- Isak Svensson is Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and has contributed to the fields of nonviolent conflict, international mediation and religion and conflict
- Margo Kitts is Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at Hawai’i Pacific University. Professor Kitts is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
- Mark Juergensmeyer has been a coordinator of religious studies for UC Berkeley and director of the office of programs in comparative religion at the graduate theological union. He was founding dean of the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai’I as well as founding director of the global and international studies program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the UC Santa Barbara
- Mia M. Bloom is International Security Fellow at New America, and a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Mona Kanwal Sheikh is Senior Researcher and Head of Global Security and Worldviews at the Danish Institute for International Studies
- Reza Aslan is a scholar of religions and holds a Ph.D. in the sociology of religions from the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Richard P. Appelbaum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Global and International Studies and Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara
Programme
18.00-18.10 Welcome, Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Isak Svensson
18.10-18.55 Short presentations
- Cosmic Wars and Social Movements, Reza Aslan
- Is Religion the Problem or Secularism? Giles Gunn
- Outbidding and Terrorism Research, Mia M. Bloom
- Sikh Studies in the United States, Gurinder Singh Mann
- The Creation of Global Studies, Richard P. Appelbaum
- Cosmic War and Atavistic Longings, Margo Kitts
- Transnational Studies of Conceptual Change, Hagen Schulz-Forberg
18.55-19.10 Religion, Conflict and Global Studies, Mark Juergensmeyer
19.10-19.30 Conversations and questions
Practical information
The webinar will be held in English. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.
The recording of the webinar will be uploaded to this page after the event.
Recorded on Thursday 27 May 2021, 18.00-19.30
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