Building Interreligious Understanding on the 21st-century College Campus

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
12:00-4:00pm
Berkley Center Conference Room
3307 M Street, NW Suite 200
RSVP: berkleycenter@georgetown.edu

A lunch meeting and panel discussion to launch our project on Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding. Panelists will address the initial findings of a new poll of Georgetown undergraduates about their attitudes towards their own religious traditions and the traditions of others. This multi-year study will deepen our knowledge about connections between undergraduate learning and interreligious understanding in an era of growing religious and cultural pluralism.  Alison Boden, Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University, will deliver a keynote lecture. Lunch will be served and we ask that you rsvp to attend.

Schedule:

12:00-1:30pm     Luncheon meeting, keynote address by Alison Boden, Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University  

1:30-2:15pm       Overview of initial survey findings:  

- Professor Michael Kessler, Assistant Director, Berkley Center and Asst. Professor (visiting), Department of Government
- Barbara Craig, Director of Assessment & Diversity, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

2:30-4:00pm      Panel: "Building Interreligious Understanding on the 21st Century College Campus" with: 

- Professor Christopher Steck, Department of Theology
- Dean Alison Boden
- Noah Silverman, Content Coordinator, Outreach, Education, and Training area, Interfaith Youth Core
- Hafsa Kanjwal, Georgetown undergraduate student