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January/February 2016
News and Events
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Contents
01) February 4 | Theology and the Danish Politics of Offense | Noreen Khawaja
02) February 23 | More Than Religious Tolerance: Self, Other, and Mysteries of Erotics | Veena Das
03) February 24 | Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer | Colloquium | Veena Das
04) The Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Theology | Initial Review February 1
05) Graduate Summer Research Grants in Religion | Due February 25
06) New Directions in Theology Graduate Student Grants | Due March 3
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) February 4 | Theology and the Danish Politics of Offense | Noreen Khawaja
Berkeley Public Forum on Religion
Noreen Khawaja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
Thursday, February 4, 5-7 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
 The 2005 Danish "Cartoons Crisis"—as it has come to be known—set off a wave of protests and debates around the globe. The phenomenon was widely framed as a conflict between the freedom of speech, on the one hand, and the right not to be offended, on the other. Scholars have challenged this frame for its fundamental misapprehension of Muslim attitudes toward the depiction of the Prophet. This talk sheds light on contemporary debates about secularism, free speech, and the meaning of religious offense, beginning with the Danish context.
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02) February 23 | More Than Religious Tolerance: Self, Other, and Mysteries of Erotics | Veena Das
Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, February 23, 5-7 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
 How does the language of the other seep into the imagination of one’s own mode of being-in-the-world? It is common to think of love and hate as mapped on the distinction between friend and enemy. However, drawing from the idea of the everyday as laced with fantasy, I explore how the relations between Hindus and Muslims are imagined in mythology and in everyday life. Going beyond the minimalist ideas of tolerance, Das asks how the volatility of relations is tied to the mystery of the other and how traces of the erotic are carried in the mundane.
The Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance is sponsored by the Endowed Fund for the Study of Religious Tolerance.
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03) February 24 | Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer | Colloquium | Veena Das
Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, February 24, 4-6 pm
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Veena Das leads a colloquium on the internal relation between language and the world, focusing on Wittgenstein's geography of the conceptual differences between mistakes, errors, and superstition. To register and receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact info.bcsr@berkeley.edu.
The Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance is sponsored by the Endowed Fund for the Study of Religious Tolerance.
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04) The Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Theology | Initial Review February 1
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion announces a new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity as part of its Public Theology Program. The Fellowship in Public Theology is dedicated to the furtherance of the very best new scholarship in religious studies, and, in particular, the development of modes of inquiry that can pioneer new approaches for the study of religion in the public university. For the academic year 2016-17, BCSR seeks a top early career scholar to come to Berkeley for one year.
Applications received by the initial review date of February 1 receive priority. For more information, including required qualifications and application materials, visit: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00893.
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05) Graduate Student Summer Research Grants in Religion | Due February 25
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is offering two summer research grants in the amount of $5,000 each for advanced graduate students working on topics in the study of religion, broadly construed. Applications are welcome from all UC Berkeley Ph.D. students who have advanced to candidacy, with preference given to those who are close to completion of their dissertations. Grants are awarded for summer research travel and related expenses only.
Support for the BCSR Graduate Student Summer Research Grants is provided by the Frank and Leslie Yeary Endowment for Ethics in the Humanities.
For more information, including application instructions and past recipients, please visit the BCSR website.
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06) New Directions in Theology Graduate Student Grants | Due March 3
BCSR is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2016-17 New Directions in Theology Graduate Student Grants, an opportunity offered through the Public Theology Program. A $5,000 grant will be awarded to incoming first-year and continuing second-year students from a variety of disciplines. Grantees participate as a cohort in biweekly meetings convened by BCSR faculty, receive intellectual guidance on research projects, and contribute to the building of a unified community of inquiry on the Berkeley campus in public theology. Applications for second-year graduate students are due on March 3. For more information, including application guidelines, please visit the BCSR website.
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