Higher Education Faculty
ICJS Launches Premier Interreligious Lectureship
The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of interreligious and interfaith studies, is an annual four-day academic residency in Baltimore starting in the spring of 2023. The lectureship aims to advance the field of study by presenting new and creative work by a senior scholar and interreligious practitioner.
The inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecture, to be held from April 24-27, 2023, will be delivered by Francis X. Clooney, S.J., a theologian at the Harvard Divinity School and a leader in the field of interreligious studies.
Faculty Seminar: Faiths & Ferocity
The ICJS inaugural Faculty Seminar, held in Baltimore July 11 to 14, 2022, will bring together scholars working in universities and seminaries who research and/or teach in Interreligious Studies or Genocide Studies. We will examine encounters between these two areas of study and consider how methodological approaches in both fields can challenge and enrich one another in our teaching and scholarship.
By bringing these two areas of study together, scholars will be able open up new questions, as well as explore new pedagogical approaches toward addressing violence and reconciliation in interreligious encounters.
