Home    Books    Cafe    Events    Event Photos    Newsletter      Contact     Search     Login   

Summer Events!

We're proud to host and sponsor these events. Also, see the Vail Symposium's home page for more great events in the Vail Valley.

       Vail Symposium Hot Topics -- Adnan Husain

Thursday, July 10 at 6 p.m., at the Sonnenalp Resort

From the Danish Cartoon controversy to protest over the Pope's Regensburg speech, the position of Muslims in the West is increasingly represented as a problem, a challenge to liberal democracy. While fears of "Eurabia" combine anti-immigrant sentiment with outright hostility to Islam, complicated debates rage about how to accommodate differences—debates including the veil in France and the Archbishop of Canterbury's support for incorporating shari'ah into common law. Adnan Husain, Associate Professor of Islam and History at Queen's University in Canada, will argue that the debate needs to be understood in a longer history of the multicultural Mediterranean. Re-imagining history, he suggests, will be crucial to a common global future.

Tickets available with the Vail Symposium at 970.476.0954 or www.vailsymposium.org

 

Vail Symposium Hot Topics -- Grover Norquist

Sunday, July 13 at 5:30 p.m., at the Beaver Creek Club

Republican luminary Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, visits the Beaver Creek Club as part of the Vail Symposium's Hot Topics series. Norquist recently released the book Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives.

Tickets available with the Vail Symposium at 970.476.0954 or www.vailsymposium.org