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- September 10th 2013The Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS Program's publication The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century is now available as a free download from UNESCO [PDF] →
- September 10th 2013Forbes reviews 22 Ideas to Fix the World, out today from NYU Press/SSRC →
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Featured Essays
- October 1st 2013Kujenga Amani launches Radar, a feature section on breaking events, with “The Westgate Mall Siege: Reassessing Kenya’s Security Architecture,” by Awino Okech, advisory board member for the African Peacebuilding Network →
- September 26th 2013Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
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January 2013
- January 24th 2013
- New American Academy of Religion program unit on secularism and secularity, cochaired by program director Jonathan VanAntwerpen, issues Call for Proposals →
May 2012
- May 4th 2012
- At The Immanent Frame, Nadia Marzouki writes about Nahda and religious freedom in the new Tunisia. →
April 2012
- April 17th 2012
- David Kyuman Kim interviews Robert W. Hefner, scholar of Islam, for The Immanent Frame →
- April 9th 2012
- SSRC Program Director Jonathan VanAntwerpen will deliver a keynote lecture at an international conference on theories of secularization →
March 2012
- March 12th 2012
- At The Huffington Post, Mark Juergensmeyer summarizes The Immanent Frame's discussion of Robert Bellah’s Religion In Human Evolution →
February 2012
- February 28th 2012
- Podcast: Jonathan VanAntwerpen and UNFPA's Azza Karam discuss secularism, religion, and human rights with Stephen Hopgood of SOAS →
- February 21st 2012
- Oxford University Press releases Rethinking Religion and World Affairs, produced by the SSRC's Religion and International Affairs project →
- February 17th 2012
- SSRC Program Director Jonathan VanAntwerpen spoke at Wofford College on "religion, reconciliation, and the politics of secularism" →
- February 10th 2012
- David Kyuman Kim interviews human rights advocate Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group for The Immanent Frame →
January 2012
- January 6th 2012
- Religion Program seeks Spring 2012 intern →
November 2011
- November 9th 2011
- On Thursday, November 10, the SSRC will co-present "Paradigms for Peacebuilding: The Need for New Thinking,” in New York City →
June 2011
- June 5th 2011
- SSRC holds its first Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop, in Pacific Grove, CA →
May 2011
- May 2nd 2011
- David Kyuman Kim’s Immanent Frame interview with Jean Comaroff republished in Cultural Anthropology →
February 2011
- February 9th 2011
- 2011 Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop faculty announced →
- February 2nd 2011
- Myths of Mubarak - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd challenges Western characterizations of Islamic politics at Immanent Frame →
November 2010
- November 30th 2010
- Applications are now available for the Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop. Deadline: March 15, 2011 →
May 2010
- May 18th 2010
- The SSRC and the Henry Luce Foundation convene grantees of the Luce Religion and International Affairs Initiative to discuss the “state of the art” →
- May 17th 2010
- An international group of scholars and practitioners gather at the SSRC for a two-day workshop on religion, peacebuilding, and development in Mindanao →
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