Expert talk
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Sunday, October, 30 2005
7:30 pm
Session 1
Welcome
Dr. Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr. Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr. Norbert Wagner, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Historical Trajectories of Politics and Religion in the US and EU
Hon. Mickey Edwards, Princeton University and the Aspen
Institute
Ministerpräsident a.D. Erwin Teufel, Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Prof. Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee
Prof. Michael Zoeller, University of Bayreuth
Chair: Dr. Norbert Wagner, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Monday, October 31, 2005
9:00 am
Session 2
Political Sociology of Religion in the US and EU
Prof. Barry Kosmin, Jewish Policy Research Institute, UK and Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Prof. John Green, University of Akron and the Pew
Research Center
Chair: Prof. Amy Uelmen, Director, Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work, Fordham University School of Law
11:00 pm
Session 3
Attitudes toward the Authority of Science in the US and Europe
Prof. Dr. Manfred Marquardt, Theologisches Seminar
Reutlingen
Prof. Robert Pollack, Columbia University
Prof. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University Law School
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Imber, Wellesley College
Luncheon speaker:
Dr. Mohammad Fadel, Ägypten/USA Director, National Association of Muslim Lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
2:00 pm
Session 4
Religion and Foreign Policy
Prof. Otto Kallscheuer, Free University Berlin
Dr. Harvey Sicherman, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Dr. Luis Lugo, Pew Research Center
Chairman: Hillel Fradkin, Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute, Washington
3:30 pm
Concluding Roundtable on Religion, National Identity, and Intercultural Dialogue (especially with the Muslim world)
Prof. James Kurth, Swarthmore College
Dr. Peter Steinfels, Fordham University
Msgr. J.Anthony Mc Daid, Rome
Chairman: Dr. Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary