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February 13, 2012
Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 15, 2012
Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2011 Report Launch and 2012 Call for Applications
March 1, 2012
Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
April 11, 2012
Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
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Doyle Undergraduate Initiatives
Engagement with cultural and religious differences is a centerpiece of the Georgetown educational experience. The Center's undergraduate programs, part of the Doyle Engaging Difference Initiative, ...
RELATED PROJECT
Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding Survey
The Berkley Center and Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) are analyzing the results of a five-year longitudinal study to track student attitudes towards religio...RECENT MEDIA
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Call for Applications: Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2012
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RFP Scholar Will Inboden on the Obama Administration and Religious Freedom
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January 9, 2012
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March 25, 2008
Building Interreligious Understanding on the 21st Century College Campus
This lunch meeting and panel discussion was part of the launch for the Berkley Center project on Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding. Panelists addressed 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, delivered a keynote lecture.
Schedule:
12:00-1:30pm, Luncheon Meeting
-Dean 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"
- 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
12:00-1:30pm, Luncheon Meeting
-Dean 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"
- 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
Featuring
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler is Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He works in Theology, Ethics (theological, philosophical, and political approaches), and the nexus of law, politics, and religion. Kessler received his Ph.D. focusing on Religion and Moral and Political Theory from the University of Chicago, where he was a William Rainey Harper Fellow and held a Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship. Kessler received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He graduated with a BA with honors in Theology, a second major in Philosophy, and a Classics minor, from Valparaiso University.
Participants
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler is Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He works...
