Events

2013

11 June 2013, 6:30 pm
Impossible Music Sessions | Stockholm: Session 1
Pussy Riot and Arya Aramnejad featuring
Jennie Abrahamson, Linnea Olsson, & Love Antell
Södra Bar
Stockholm

23 March 2013, 7 pm
A time to break silence (with Davone Tines, Cheol Woong Kim,
Mamak Khadem, Eric Silberger and Daniel Lelchuk)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms
Castleton, Virginia

15 & 16 March 2013
Consultation on authority, community, and identity
Contending modernities: Catholic, Muslim, secular
Social Science Reseach Council
Brooklyn, New York

16 February 2013, 3 pm
The secularization of blasphemy
2013 Telos Conference: Religion and Politics in a Post-Secular World
St. Francis College
Brooklyn, New York

2012

4 & 5 December 2012
The right to artistic freedom: Consultation organized by the Special Rapporteur
in the field of cultural rights, Ms. Farida Shaheed
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais Wilson
Geneva

18 October 2012, 7 pm
Shahin Najafi & Mohsen Namjoo: A review of Iran's protest music
Alchemical Theatre Lab
137 W. 14th Street
New York City

18 October 2012, 7 pm
Shahin Najafi: A review of Iran's protest music
College of Science 101
University of Central Florida
Orlando

5 October 2012, 3:30 pm
What do you have to say for yourself? Moral agency as if speech mattered
Philosophy Department colloquium
University of Central Florida
Orlando

31 March 2012, 6 pm
U.S. book launch party
Hosted by Center for Inquiry
116 Bar, 116 MacDougal St. between Bleeker St. & Minetta Lane
New York City

29 March 2012, 1 pm
The future of blasphemy
with Pamela Takiff, Human Rights First
Baha'i Mission to the United Nations
866 United Nations Plaza, Ste. 120
New York City

24 February 2012, 10:30 am
Blasphemy, religious hatred, & the poverty of human rights discourse
The Competing Claims of Law and Religion conference
Pepperdine University School of Law
Malibu, California

3 February 2012, 5 pm
The future of blasphemy
Leiden University
Steenschuur 25
Leiden

2 February 2012, 7 pm
The future of blasphemy
Admiral Gjeddes Gaard
Store Kannikestræde 10 A
Copenhagen

30 January 2012, 8 pm
The future of blasphemy
Zebrastraat 32
Ghent

29 January 2012, 2 pm
The future of blasphemy
(with David Nash)
O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel
Dublin (and livestream)

28 January 2012, 11 am
The future of blasphemy
(with Andrew Copson, Maryam Namazie, Kenan Malik, and Jacob Mchangama)
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, Holborn
London

2011

3 March 2011, 8 pm
Music Freedom Day
Pfizer Auditorium
5 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn

10 June 2011, 8 pm
Impossible Music Session 4: Escuadrón Patriota featuring Miki Flow & The Casualty Process
Pfizer Auditorium
5 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn

4 October 2011
The philosopher and the guitar: Music, freedom, and human rights
(with The Casualty Process)
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland

6 October 2011
The philosopher and the guitar: Music, freedom, and human rights
(with The Casualty Process)
Lafayette College
Easton, Pennsylvania

21 November 2011
title TBA
Right! Freedom of Music & Speech conference
Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers
Stockholm