Tuesday, January 19
Introduction and Welcome: Karen Barkey and Jonathan Laurence
Keynote Address: Religious Tolerance Revisited –Denis Lacorne (Sciences Po)
Video of Introduction, Welcome and Keynote Address
Panel: Thinking Toleration
- On pluralism in the Quran and Islamic philosophy – Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University) VIDEO
- Beyond Toleration? Syncretism, Amalgamation, and Religious Multiplicity in the Shinto Tradition – Fabio Rambelli (UC Santa Barbara) VIDEO
- Hasidism and Toleration – Sam Berrin Shonkoff (Graduate Theological Union) VIDEO
- Commenter: Jonathan Laurence (Boston College) VIDEO OF DISCUSSION
Wednesday, January 20
Panel: Minorities, Pluralism, Law
- Toleration: Thought and Practice in the Societies of the Medieval Islamic World – Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America) VIDEO
- The Elusive Toleration of Islam in Europe – Jonathan Laurence (Boston College) VIDEO
- The Way has not a Constant Name. State Attitudes to Religious Toleration in Chinese History – Eugenio Menegon (Boston University) VIDEO
- Commenter: Karen Barkey (UC Berkeley) VIDEO OF DISCUSSION
Thursday, January 21
Panel: Sacred Space and Tolerance
- The Politics of Jewish Neighborhood: Exclusiveness and Tolerance in Rabbinic Law – Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University) VIDEO
- Sounds of Emancipation: Politics, Identity, and Music in 19th-century Italian Synagogues – Francesco Spagnolo (UC Berkeley) VIDEO
- Intolerance Under the Guise of Tolerance: Religious Diversity in Thirteenth-century India – Elaine M. Fisher (Stanford University) VIDEO
- Tolerance and Rights: An Exploration of Medieval Canon Law – Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio) VIDEO
- Commenter: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli) VIDEO OF DISCUSSION
Friday, January 22
Panel: Politics, Political Theory and Toleration
- Late Roman Toleration or How to Read an Imperial Edict: Theodosius to All the People on the Catholic religio – Susanna Elm (UC Berkeley) VIDEO
- Asoka’s Dhamma: social toleration or communal Harmony – Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi) VIDEO
- Church and State in the European Toleration Debates, 1560-1655 – Noah Dauber (Colgate University) VIDEO
- Commenter: Simon Brown (UC Berkeley) VIDEO OF DISCUSSION
Saturday, January 23
Panel: Text, Translation, Interpretation
- Tolerance and Intolerance in the Hebrew Bible – Robert Alter (UC Berkeley) VIDEO
- Ecumenical Community: The Ummah in the Quran – Hamza Zafer (University of Washington) VIDEO
- Toleration, Religion, and the Enlightenment – William Bulman (Lehigh University) VIDEO
- Commenter: David Marno (UC Berkeley) VIDEO OF DISCUSSION