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 at ICJS 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.
Learn about previous Faculty Seminars below.
Religion, Law, & Social Justice: Discovering New Frameworks at the ICJS Faculty Seminar
Drawing on her work with Sadhana, an organization that advocates for Hindus in New York City, and her upcoming teaching at Fordham Law, Shivani Parikh shares how the ICJS Faculty Seminar deepened her commitment to reimagining the role of religion in public life.
2025: No Church | No State: Religious Experiments in Imagining the World Otherwise
2024 | Interreligious Perspectives on Death and Dying
2023 | America’s Unexceptional Christian Nationalism: Democratic Lessons from Other Contexts
2022 | Genocide Studies and Interreligious Studies: Comparative Pedagogical and Research Approaches
