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December 7, 2007. Talk presented at Wellesley College. Available as a podcast on iTunes.

December 6, 2007. God Needs No Passport featured on Jim Agnew's Daily Book Picks.

December 5, 2007. Posted "The Unfinished Business of the Women's Movement" on Huffington Post blog.

November 21, 2007. Posted "Why Not Cook Together?" on Huffington Post blog.

November 20, 2007. Booksigning at the Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA.

November 20, 2007. Delivered Lecture at Rappaport Institute’s “Boston 101 Speakers’ Series” (Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center): “God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing Religious Landscape."

November 13, 2007. Addressed the New Hampshire Humanities Council at Southern New Hampshire University: “The Challenges of Religious Diversity.”

November 6, 2008. Spoke at Northwestern University Ethnography Workshop, “Multi-sited Field Work: The Challenges of Unbounded Ethnography”

November 1, 2007. Addressed Annual Meeting of the League of Women Voters, Lexington, MA.

October 30, 2007. Delivered talk at the InterUniversity Seminar on Migration at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

October 11-13. Delivered talk, "Pluralism as a Transnational Construct" at After Pluralism Conference, Columbia University, New York.

Sunday, Oct. 7. Book Reading at McIntryre's Fine Books, Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Wednesday, Oct. 3. Appeared on Dialogue, a weekly half-hour public affairs series produced by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in conjunction with MHz Networks.

Thursday, September 20. Article on EthicsDaily.com site that focuses on the book and remarks made in an audio conference: Religion Important, but Overlooked, Element in Immigration Debate, Experts Say.

Thursday, September 20. Guest on Interfaith Voices, a syndicated radio show that focuses on the interesection of theology and public policy.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Audionews conference on the impact of religion on immigration. Listen.

Sunday, September 16, 2007. Book reading at The Concord Bookshop in Concord, Massachusetts.

Sunday, September 9, 2007. OpEd piece in the India Post: "Social Remittances — Spreading American values one immigrant at a time"

Thursday, September 6, 2007. Book Reading at Olsson's Books & Records, Washington.

August 23—25, 2007. Keynote Speaker, University of Helsinki Development Studies Summer School Workshop, Tampere, Finland.

August 28, 2007. Book reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor: "How religion forges global networks."

August 25, 2007. Interviewed in The Boston Globe: "For author, religion is a path to acceptance."

August 11, 2007. Guest on State of Belief, a radio show produced by The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and Air America Radio.

August 7, 2007. Interviewed on Weekly Signals (with Mike Kaspar & Nathan Callahan) on KUCI.FM. Download mp3 of interview.

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July 31, 2005. Article in the MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, MA) about the new book: "Immigrants make their stamp on religion."

July 5, 2007. Article in the Wellesley Townsman (Wellesley, MA) about the new book: "Wellesley College professor’s new book looks at immigration, religion in U.S."

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June, 2007. Delivered talk, "Achieving Simulteneity: Discontinuities and Renegotiation in Transnational Social Fields," at the Gender, Generations, and Family in International Migration Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

June, 2007. Delivered talk, "Migrants and the Changing Religious Landscape," at the Religion, Ethnicity and Nation-States in a Globalizing World Conference, University of Amsterdam.

June 30, 2007. Quoted in MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, MA) article on immigration: "From the Andes to Milford: The latest immigrant wave."

June 11, 2007. Huffington Post OpEd piece: "Transnational Problems Need Transnational Solutions."

June 6, 2007. Huffington Post OpEd piece: "Díos Ha Muerto?"

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May 29, 2007. On KGMI's Joe Teehan Show show in Washington to discuss the new book.

May 27, 2007. A piece, "Life, liberty, and the folks back home," in the Ideas section, and a piece, "The Global in the Local," in the Magazine, both of the Sunday Boston Globe.

May 23, 2007. Appeared on Tom Ashbrook's NPR radio show On Point with another immigration scholar and two journalists: "Immigration in America, Now." To hear the show, look for the icon near top of the On Point page (click here).

May 18, 2007. OpEd piece on the Huffington Post blog. "Religion Isn't One-Size-Fits-All."

May 14, 2007. OpEd piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. " 'Us vs. Them' Mentality Holds Us Back" comments on the immigration debate.

May 6, 2007. Letter to the editor in the New York Times Magazine talks about how social remittances are equally important as economic remittances as catylists for change.

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April 12, 2007. Delivered talk at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark: “God Needs No Passport: The Religious Lives of the Second Generation.”

April 28, 2007. Was a plenary speaker at the Third Cumbre of the Great Plains, Understanding Immigration and the Changing Communities of America at the University of Nebraska: “At Mass They Use Marimbas: How Immigrants are Changing the American Religious Landscape.”

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November 30, 2006. Delivered talk at the Symposium on Transnational Processes Amongst First and Second Generation Immigrants at the University of Amsterdam: “God Needs No Passport: The Religious Lives of the Second Generation Immigrants.” 

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October 9-10, 2006. Delivered lectures at the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain: “La Educacíon de la Segunda Generacíon desde una Perspectiva Transnacional” (“Educating the Second Generation from a Transnational Perspective”).

October 27, 2006. Was a keynote speaker at the Second International Colloquim organized by the Migracion y Desarollo Network at the University of Zacatecas in Cocoyoc, Mexico: “New Theoretical and Methodological Advances in Transnational Migration Studies.”

October 20, 2006. Delivered talk at the Local Contexts and Prospects for the Second Generation Conference, at the West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington: “Roots and Routes: Religion, Incorporation, and Homeland Involvements Among the Second Generation.”

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February 3, 2006. Was the keynote speaker at the Border Crossings Conference, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP). Harvard Gazette article.

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© 2008 Peggy J. Levitt