Pitfalls and Potentials in Interreligious Dialogue
A seminar with Dr. Hans Ucko on interreligious and intrareligious dialogue
November 7, 2007 
4:30-6:00pm
Berkley Center Conference Room
RSVP to berkleycenter@georgetown.edu
The Rev. Dr. Hans Ucko is from Sweden and is an ordained minister of the Church of Sweden. He has studied Jewish-Christian dialogue and interreligious relations in France, Israel and India. He received his doctorate in theology at the Senate of Serampore College, Calcutta, India, where he wrote his thesis on the concepts of "people" and "people of God" as integral to the Jewish tradition and to Minjung and Dalit theologies. He is since 1989 Program Executive for the Office of Interreligious Relations and Dialogue of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Ucko is author and editor of several books, such as, Worlds of Memory and Wisdom - Encounters of Jews and African Christians, The People and the People of God - Minjung and Dalit Theology in Interaction with Jewish-Christian Dialogue, and The Jubilee Challenge - Utopia or Possibility? He is the editor of Current Dialogue and a Board Trustee for Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT.