[Discussion] Islamin Kamusal alani

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett <bkg@nyu.edu>

February 28, 2003 is the deadline for applications for one research
fellowship and two postdoctoral fellowships at New York University's new

Center for Religion and Media for the 2003-2004 academic year.
Postdoctoral candidates should have completed the PhD within the last
five years. Research Scholar should be advanced assistant professors or
more senior.

Please send a 3-5 page proposal describing the project to be pursued, a
c.v., and three letters of recommendation by the February 28 deadline
to:

Fellowship Committee
Center for Religion and Media
25 Waverly Place, 5th fl
New York, NY 10003

For addition information, please see:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/religionmedia.htm#annual
Contact: BarbaraAbrash@nyu.edu

The Key Working Groups for 2003-04 will be:

Jews, Media, and Religion.
Conveners: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies (NYU), and

Jeffrey Shandler, Jewish Studies (Rutgers)

The Islamic Public Sphere.
Convener: Michael Gilsenan, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies (NYU)

Religious and Human Rights
Convener: Meg McLagan, Anthropology (NYU)

Faye Ginsburg and Angela Zito, with funding by Pew Charitable Trusts as
part of their Centers of Excellence Program, have launched NYU's new
interdisciplinary Center for Religion and Media. The Center, a joint
project of the Religious Studies Program and the Center for Media,
Culture, and History, will develop and broaden interdisciplinary and
cross-cultural scholarship, pedagogy, and public knowledge of religion
and media as a global phenomenon with deep local roots. While this
project was conceived before September 11, that event and its aftermath
have dramatized the need for understanding the spread of religious ideas

and practices through a variety of media. Jay Rosen (Chair, Dept. of
Journalism) will be directing the Center's innovative web journal, The
Public Square: A New Web Guide to Religion and the Media.

Our theme for academic year 2003-04, is Suffering, Solidarity, and
Salvation. Our bridging seminar will focus on Confession, Testimony, and

Witnessing. Faculty-run interdisciplinary working groups are at the
heart of this project, representing a number of disciplines and linked
to their own and colleagues' particular research interests around the
topic of religion and media. While pursuing personal projects, the
research fellow and two postdoctoral fellows will also participate in
the Center's working activities.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
<bkg@nyu.edu>