Convening
  • 15
    April
    2021
    Online (Zoom)
    Shifting Power: What has changed for the Middle East and North Africa?
    Reset DOC presents a round table to discuss the currently shifting paradigms in the Middle East and North Africa. From tremors within the Jordanian monarchy to Libya’s fragile peace, Lebanon’s absentee ruling class and Algeria’s struggle to move on from Bouteflika. What is at stake for the region after a decade of faltering change. Will the new geopolitical shifts allow for more breathing room for democracy to flourish or do we return to the status quo by another name?
  • 18
    March
    2021
    Online (Zoom)
    Reflections on Faith and Secularity in Our Global Secular Age
    In this conversation with José Casanova, Fr. Halík will discuss his path to priesthood and his life’s work. This has included organizing a papal visit to the Czech Republic; interreligious dialogue work; a chaplaincy at Salvator Church, the historic Jesuit Church of the Clementinum; and pastorate of the intelligentsia, particularly of those who are on the margins and on the periphery of faith and of the Catholic Church.
  • 15
    March
    2021
    Online (Zoom)
    The Pope’s Visit to Iraq: An Historic Juncture
    Join Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., the editor-in-chief of La Civiltà Cattolica who accompanied Pope Francis to Iraq, Riccardo Cristiano, Italian journalist and Vatican expert, and Shaun Casey, director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, for a conversation about the pope’s trip and its religious and political significance.
  • 18
    February
    2021
    Onine (Zoom)
    Engaging with Difference, Religious Pluralism, and Building a Tolerant Civil Society
    In this tenth conversation in the Global Religious and Secular Dynamics Discussion Series, Adam Seligman will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss such themes as civil society, trust, authority, collective belonging and the challenges posed by individualism and modern human rights discourse to any shared idea of a substantive public good.
  • 19
    January
    2021
    Online (Zoom)
    Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents
    This conference hosted by Reset DOC with The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion gathers scholars to talk about the ways in which religious toleration has been articulated and practiced in places and periods outside of modern “Western” history.
  • 14
    December
    2020
    Online (Zoom)
    The Arab Winter and the Tunisian Exception in Context
    10 years ago, an unprecedented season of uprisings and political and social changes – now referred to as the Arab Spring – swept North Africa and the Near East. Today, we are seeing transformations, considered unimaginable at the time, both internally and in the region’s balance of power. Reset DOC, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is organizing a two-day international conference that will look at what has been accomplished over these last ten years and how much road is left to go in rebuilding democracy in the region.
  • 3
    December
    2020
    Online (Zoom)
    On Fundamentalism, the Ambivalence of the Sacred, and Contested Modernities – A Conversation with Scott Appleby
    Appleby will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the Fundamentalism Project, its strengths and weakness, and the continuing validity of the category of fundamentalism or “strong” religion, as well as Contending Modernities, its originating assumption, and the project’s most important outcomes to date. They will also examine the ambivalence of the sacred and its power to both sacralize and desacralize violence, as well as religious contributions—particularly Catholic ones—to peacemaking.
  • 24
    November
    2020
    Zoom
    The Divided Society After November 3rd
    In the aftermath of last week’s vote, Reset DOC in collaboration with the Italian Academy at Columbia University and the Centro Studi Americani in Rome will host an event of world-renowned experts to examine the results of the November 3rd elections with an outlook towards the long-term effects of these deep semantic and cultural divisions.    
  • 5
    November
    2020
    Online (Zoom)
    Indian and Western Varieties of Secularism – A Conversation with Rajeev Bhargava
    In this conversation, Bhargava will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss Indian secularism, as well as comparative secularism globally. They will examine the particular challenges that majoritarian Hindu nationalism presents to Indian secularism, the relationship between dual global crises of secularism and of democracy, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting both. They will also discuss U.S.-Indian relations in the context of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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