This years ALIM Winter Program is entitled “Is Islamic Thought Dying?”, and will held in Santa Clara, California, at the MCA Islamic Center (Bay Area), January 18th-21st, 2008. Dr. Sherman Jackson will be amongst the speakers.
The conference will discuss, among other things, William Chittick’s recent book entitled, “Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul”. The book will serve as a springboard for discussion on the broader issues and intersections of Islamic and Western approaches to learning and knowledge.

For more information visit the Manrilla Blog. To register, go to: www.alimprogram.com.

As a part of Dr. Jackson’s two-day stay in New York at NYU he partook in a panel discusion on race. Here’s a collection of Google videos that give an account of pertinent words. To quote Dr. Jackson,

“My view is that race is a social construct, but my view is also…, so what?!“

Links here and here. Enjoy.

Update

Due to learning that the complete videos for Dr. Jackson’s lecture was not uploaded in its entirety, it has been retracted here as well as on other sites. As per Dr. Jackson’s request, we would as that anyone who has uploaded the videos, remove them. You can see the reason for his request here.