2022 Interfaith Academic Consortium Conference
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: How do our Faiths Shape our Prejudices and our Ideals?
Dr. David Nirenberg, author of numerous books on the history of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian relations, will be returning to our area following his distinguished career at the University of Chicago where he was a Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Divinity School. This year he was appointed Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N,J., the home to such famous scholars as Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, and John von Neumann.
Conference Schedule
Afternoon
1:00 pm Registration
2:00 pm
Race and Religion, in History and Today
The lecture will explore how contemporary Christian white supremacist groups read certain passages of the Bible, and how similar attitudes are shared with strands of other faith traditions. This session will examine where these attitudes developed in the ancient world, and why they proved so powerful, as well as what this implies about the interaction between religion and racism today.
3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:45 pm Panel Discussion
Evening
6:30 pm Mini-Dessert Buffet
7:00 pm
Anti-Judaism Past and Present
From their earliest origins to the present moment, Christians and Muslims have given shape to their faiths by interacting with and thinking about Jews and Judaism. How has that long history of thought contributed to anti-Semitism in the past and present? And what can the study of that history offer the future?
This event will be available both virtually and in-person. It is free, but registration is required.
Location Information
Pew Campus, Loosemore Auditorium
Contact Information
Kaufman Interfaith Institute
616-331-5702
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This event was added to the calendar by Kyle Kooyers (kooyersk@gvsu.edu) on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 and was last updated on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 10:09 a.m.