About this Event
This talk will focus on a few examples of sharing around the Mediterranean and describe the experiences of religious groups who welcome the “other” into their sacred space. I will show images of sacred sites and describe conversations between the faithful to highlight the possibility of coexistence.
is the Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion at Bard College. She just joined Bard from the University of California, Berkeley.
Her most recent work relates to religious diversity and coexistence issues, with particular research and policy intervention on the question of Shared Sacred Sites. She works on shared sacred sites in the Mediterranean, especially post-Ottoman territories.
Karen Barkey is one of the curators of the traveling Shared Sacred Sites exhibition. She has worked on the exhibition at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Photography, the Yeni Cami in Thessaloniki (2017), and the New York exhibition at the NYPL, Morgan Library and Museum and CUNY Graduate Center (2018). With colleagues, she runs a website on this topic that brings international participants and expertise to many shared sites worldwide. She started this project to promote awareness and understanding of coexistence among religions. You can see more on the site: <a href="https://www.sharedsacredsites.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">sharedsacredsites.net
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For more on her work, see her website: <a href="http://karenbarkey.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://karenbarkey.com
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Image by Manoël Pénicaud
Yeni Cami, Thessaloniki, Greece
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Studio79, 224 West 79 Street, New York, United States
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