
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 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.
“During this week we cast a vision together,” AIIS president-elect Kevin Minister, Ph.D., said. “It’s clear what we want to keep doing as we expand our impact and support the diversity of people doing this work.”