Blasphemy and Beyond:
Reconciling Faith and Free Expression
Wednesday 31 October, 2012
12:25pm, $0
NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South, Greenberg Lounge
Religious offense often flows in multiple directions. Take the infamous YouTube video, which unleashed a firestorm of outrage and violence from Muslims worldwide. Days before, priests in every parish in Scotland read a bishops' letter denouncing that country’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage, which Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien called “a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right.” These and other examples will animate a discussion among leading scholars in law and philosophy in which they will consider how tensions between free speech and faith should be managed in a democratic society: should free speech be limited in such circumstances and if so, where should boundaries be drawn and by whom?
Panelists:
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University School of Law
Moderator:
Shaheed Fatima, Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Panelists:
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University School of Law
Moderator:
Shaheed Fatima, Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
