Below you will find a list of events related but not sponsored by the Boisi Center.
HDS: The Case of Islam and Christianity
April 7, 2008, 5:15-7:00 PM
A panel discussion entitled, “Rethinking the Relationship Between Religion and State: The Case of Islam and Christianity,” with Dominique Bauer, PhD, University of Louvain; Emran Qureshi, Wertheim Fellow at the Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law School; and Nader Hashemi, Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA. This panel discussion will be moderated by David Little, Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
This event will be held at CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave. For details, call 617.495.4476.
In Good Faith
Thursday, April 10th, Higgins 300, 8:00PM
The premiere screening of In Good Faith , a new documentary . The event is sponsored by the Theology and Fine Arts departments at Boston College. In Good Faith documents the resolution of the controversy around the recent construction by the Islamic Society of Boston of New England’s largest mosque in Roxbury and the significant dialogue that involved members of the local Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities. The film features interviews with Dr. David Gordis (President of Hebrew College), Imam Basyouny Nehala (Islamic Society of Boston), Rabbi Moshe Waldoks (Temple Beth Zion), Prof. Dennis Hale (BC Political Science) and Father David Michael (Boston Archdiocese) among others.
Untying the Knots: Theorizing Conflicts Between Gender Equality and Religious Laws
April 15th, 2008 at Hassenfeld Conference Center, Brandeis University, 8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Brandeis University cordially invites you to an event hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law. The Conference will focus on issues such as multicultural toleration and the recognition of personal law, intersections of civil and religious law, innovations for Jewish law, and comparative perspectives to legal reform.