For Higher Education Faculty
ICJS Hosts Premier Interreligious Lectureship
The Silber-Obrecht Lecture is the premiere endowed lecture in the emerging field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies.
The 2025 lecture featured Rabbi Dr. Rachel S. Mikva, Professor of Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow, InterReligious Institute, Chicago Theological Seminary. A response was given by Dr. Younus Mirza, Founding Director, Global Virtual Learning, Shenandoah University.
The ICJS Faculty Seminar
The ICJS Faculty Seminar is a week-long residency in Baltimore that equips faculty who teach in North American colleges, universities, or seminaries with resources for teaching interreligious topics. These participants join ICJS scholars in intense study and discussion on a select topic that changes each year. The goal of the Faculty Seminar is to assist visiting faculty in preparing to teach these materials at their home institutions and to incorporate an interreligious approach into both their teaching and research.
The 2025 Faculty Seminar, No Church | No State: Religious Experiments in Imagining the World Otherwise, was held at ICJS in Baltimore from August 3–7, 2025. It was co-facilitated by Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. of ICJS and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Ph.D. of Indiana University, Bloomington.
