CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
Religion and the Political Imagination from 1500 to the Present
Saltmarsh Rooms, King’s College, Cambridge
16-17 July 2007
Schedule
Monday 16 July
9.30
Welcome – Tea/Coffee
9.45
Session I - Empires and Creeds
Karen Barkey (Columbia University)
Ottoman History and Society
Geoffrey Hosking (University College, London)
The Russian Orthodox Church and Secularisation
11.15
Coffee
11.30
Session II – The Enlightenment and After
David Thompson (University of Cambridge)
The Enlightenment, the late 18th Century and their aftermath
Michael O’Brien (University of Cambridge)
The American Experience of Secularism
13.00
Lunch
14.15
Session III – After the Revolutions
Chris Clark (University of Cambridge)
From 1848 to Christian Democracy
Emile Perreau-Saussine (University of Cambridge)
Nationalism, Liberalism and Catholicism
16.00
Tea
16.15
Session IV – The New European Pluralism
Jytte Klausen (Brandeis University)
Europe’s Uneasy Marriage of Secularism and Christianity since the 1960s
Sara Silvestri (City University, London)
Muslim Settlement in the European Union at Constitutional Level
17.45
End of day one
19.30
Dinner (Saltmarsh Rooms, King’s College)
Tuesday 17 July
9.30
Session V
‘Strong Religions’: what’s left of the secularisation thesis?
Ingrid Creppell (George Washington University)
Secularisation: religious activism and the value of political sphere
Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia University)
‘On thick and thin religion’: Making sense of the political religion in India
11.00
Coffee
11.15
Session VI – The 1960s Onwards
Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham)
What happened to west European religion in the 1960s?
Callum Brown (University of Dundee)
Gendering Secularisation
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Session VII
Constitutional Change and Political Thought
Anat Scolnicov (University of Cambridge)
Does constitutionalisation lead to Secularisation?
Istvan Hont (University of Cambridge)
How secularised is modern political philosophy?
15.30
Tea
15.45
Concluding Session
Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)
Gareth Stedman Jones (University of Cambridge)
17.00
Meeting Ends