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| 2002 Reuters Forum: Jihad vs. McWorld - The Clash between Fundamentalism and the Secular World | | School of Journalism | | Have the globalizing and integrating forces of technology, ecology, economics and pop culture ("McWorld") spawned a disintegral, antimodernizing fundamentalist reaction ("Jihad") that puts aggressive, commercializing secularism on a crash course with the billions of people who feel marginalized by the global economy and threatened by homogenizing consumerism and its materialist values? Hear panelists Raghida Dergham, Stephen Jukes, Ambassador Edward S. Walker Jr., and Benjamin Barber discuss these propositons. Archived webcast of a forum held January 30, 2002. |
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| | Columbia 250th | | To kick off the celebration of Columbia University's 250th anniversary, the University hosted a distinguished group of international government leaders, philosophers, and political scientists for this two-day symposium, which considered the pressing question of how to strike the right balance between liberty and security in a post-9/11 world. |
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| | Columbia 250th | | In celebration of its 250th anniversary, Columbia University brought together an international group of scholars and researchers for a two-day conference that explored the remarkable birth, astounding impact, and puzzling future of genetics. |
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| | Columbia School of Journalism | | The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism hosted a conference on the life and work of Randolph Bourne, an influential yet under-recognized critic who wrote on many topics, including disability, multiculturalism, and war. |
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| Scholars Reexamine Varieties of Religious Experience | | Office of Public Affairs | | During the Center for the Study of Science's March 24-25, 2002, conference, leading scholars reexamined William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience on the centennial of its publication. Richard Rorty, Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford, said that James' classic work presents clashing definitions of religious experience. |
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| Wisdom and Meditation Liberate the Human Being in Indo-Tibetan Thinking | | Office of Public Affairs | | In this archived webcast of his presentation at the Cummings and Fetzer Lectures on "Meditative and Contemplative States," religion professor Robert Thurman explains how Buddhism and the Western system of higher education overlap in their objectives. |
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