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Curating the “City of Faith” - New Directions in Representing Religion in Contemporary Life

General Programming

dateApril 11, 2023 timeTuesday, 5:30pm–7:00pm EDT location The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University locationVirtual Event
Cosponsors
  • The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
  • Department of Religion
Organizer
  • Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Contact
email address [email protected]
Notes
  • Free and open to the public
  • Registration required. See details.
Utsa Hazarika's Pilgrims/This Is Not That Dawn (2022) and Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti's Sikh Project series (2016)

How do museum exhibitions about religion shape public understandings of religion and race today? What are some of the challenges and prospects that curators and museum professionals face in “representing religion” to diverse audiences?

Curator Azra Dawood and Professor Najam Haider join in conversation to address these questions and more. Azra Dawood is the curator of the Museum of the City of New York exhibition “City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space,” which focuses on South Asian communities in New York. Najam Haider is a Professor of Religion at Barnard College.

Photo credit: View of Utsa Hazarika's Pilgrims/This Is Not That Dawn (2022) and Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti's Sikh Project series (2016). Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York, photograph by Brad Farwell