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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Monday, February 3, 2020

Flash Panel: India's Winter of Protest

Time: Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

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About the panel Since December, India has been rocked by nationwide protests drawing millions of citizens. The public demonstrations are against a controversial citizenship law passed by the government. Protestors describe the law as discriminatory against Muslims and an assault on the secular ethos of India’s constitution. The protests have continued despite several incidents of police violence. …

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Kristian Petersen Lecture: "Interpreting Islam in China"

Time: Thu Feb 13, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

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About the Lecture “Interpreting Islam in China”  A distinctive Chinese Islamic intellectual tradition emerged during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Chinese Muslims established an educational system, scripture hall education (jingtang jiaoyu 經堂教育), which utilized an Islamic curriculum made up of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese works. The Han Kitab, a corpus of Chinese language Islamic texts developed within this system, reinterpreted Islam through the religio-philosophical lens of Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian terminology. Several Han Kitab texts were produced by a group of self-identified “Confucian Muslim” scholars (Huiru 回儒).…

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Monday, February 17, 2020

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Why Governments Discriminate Against Minorities

Time: Tue Feb 25, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center C103

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In his book Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Why Governments Discriminate Against Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Jonathan Fox, Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar-Ilan University, examines the causes of government-based religious discrimination (GRD) against 771 minorities in 183 countries over a 25-year period, while offering possible reasons for why some minorities are discriminated against more than others.…

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Monday, September 14, 2020

Flash Panel "Xinjiang and the Uyghurs: Religion, Oppression, and Geopolitics"

Time: Mon Sep 14, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Virtual panel discussion

Register About the event The mass internment of members of the Muslim Uyghur ethnicity in China’s Xinjiang province continues to attract global attention and concern. Adding to the complexity is the opinion that world leaders such as President Trump are focusing on the atrocities for political gain instead of humanitarian interests. Building on established facts, panelists will introduce and examine historical and cultural perspectives related to the Xinjiang region, the Uyghur people, and Beijing’s actions.…

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Monday, September 28, 2020

Advice to the Next President on Addressing Racial Justice: Notre Dame Students Speak Out

Time: Mon Sep 28, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Virtual Event

Register now to attend » In this epic moment of reckoning on systemic racism and during the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election in November, the Kroc Institute seeks to promote and support the voices of a new generation of voters: young people who experience and care about racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice and inequality, and who expect the political leadership of our country to take these issues seriously.…

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Alexander Hsu lecture: "Coming to Terms with 'Engaged Buddhism' in Asia"

Time: Tue Sep 29, 2020, 11:00 am - 11:45 am

Location: Zoom webinar

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Register here About the Lecture Engaged Buddhism describes a global form of socially and politically active Buddhism that emerged in the 1960s, and has transformed both the Buddhist religion and the world ever since. The Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh coined the term; ever since, he and other Asian Buddhist leaders embraced it in building Buddhist movements for waging peace, claiming rights, and enacting justice. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a spike in scholarship on Engaged Buddhism in Asia that has not been seen since.…

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Faith and the Presidency: Perspectives from the Evangelical Christian Community

Time: Thu Oct 15, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Zoom Webinar

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As the 2020 US elections approach, the electorate is overwhelmingly polarized, even within members of the same faith communities. Our democracy is being tested not by our disagreements, but by how we manage them. Can we listen to each other with empathy despite our deep disagreements?…

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Friday, November 20, 2020

Feminist Theologies in Global Context Reading Group Meeting

Time: Fri Nov 20, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Zoom Webinar

The Feminist Theologies in Global Context Reading Group will meet Friday, Nov. 20 via Zoom to discuss racial justice and feminist theologies.  Friday's meeting will include special guest Sylvia Chan-Malik, a scholar of American Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Chan-Malik is the author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam…

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Peace in Absentia: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Voices on Arab-Israeli Normalization

Time: Tue Dec 1, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Zoom Webinar

In January 2020, the United States announced a Mideast peace plan that supports the Israeli position on most issues rather than fostering Israeli-Palestinian compromise. In recent months, it has brokered deals to normalize relations between Israel and multiple Arab states. The normalizations have come after the US had already moved its embassy to Jerusalem and declared that Israeli settlements on occupied Palestine do not violate international law.…

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