Professor Faris asked me to pass this along…
1) Tariq Ramadan
The Quest for Meaning and Pluralism
Public Lecture and Book Signing.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Reservations are required. (www.sfu.ca/reserve or email ccsmsc@sfu.ca)
Thursday, February 3, 2011
7:00 pm
Simon Fraser University
Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville Street, Vancouver
2) Spring 2011 Lecture Series
Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University
The Quest for Meaning and Pluralism
February 3, 2010, 7:00pm
Graham E. Fuller, Simon Fraser University
Reflections on a World Without Islam
February 22, 2011, 7:00pm
Tarek Elhaik, San Francisco State University
Resonances: Clinical & Sacred Life: Mounir
Fatmi’s Tete Dure and Sylvia
Gruner’s El Nacimiento de Venus.
March 17, 2011, 7:00pm
Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
A Generation’s Odyssey: Rebellious Action and
the Creation of Social Epic in Iran in the 1970s
Co-hosted by Shahrvand BC Weekly
April 1, 2011, 7:00pm
For more information visit: www.sfu.ca/ccsmsc
I think there are no more than 10 spots left for the Tariq Ramadan talk. Not only is he a leading voice in the Muslim reform movement today (sort of like a modern Muhammad Abdu :), but he is also the grandson of Hassan el-Banna, the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood! So I would recommend this lecture for all those interested in reform in the Muslim world. If you can’t make it, be sure to check out some of Ramadan’s youtube debates and speeches as well as some of his well-written books!