"Western Responses to the Torture of Muslims" 4-5:30pm: Keynote address by Sherene Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
"The New Muslim Cool" 6-8pm: A screening of the film "The New Muslim Cool," by Jennifer Taylor, with a discussion with Zaheer Ali (Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Institute of African Studies; and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; as well as the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding's Center for the Study of American Muslims and George Mason University's Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies.