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October 4, 2023
Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser was featured in Tablet magazine to discuss her new book Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (2023) and how she uses Jewish texts to contextualize and craft new conversations on disability.
September 28, 2023
Writing a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie discusses the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Dead Man Walking based on Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book of the same name. The company also performed excerpts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison about 30 miles north of New York City, accompanied by a chorus of incarcerated men.
September 27, 2023
As a product of the Berkley Center's Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, this volume edited by Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville explores how states across multiple regions and a diverse range of faith traditions incorporate religion as an aspect of their foreign policy, with case studies that illuminate various cross-national patterns as well as continuities and discontinuities.
September 24, 2023
Writing for Time, Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser reflects on prayers during Yom Kippur and contends that in order to challenge ableism, we have to teach ourselves to notice normativity and recognize the way it’s embedded in the very fabric of our lives.
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April 3, 2025
The Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF), hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is working to create an environment where women faith leaders are positioned at the forefront of innovative and holistic development efforts to advance the well-being of women and girls. The 2024-2025 cohort are currently working on their capstone projects, and will come the Hilltop Campus in May.
March 27, 2025
In a March 13, 2025, episode of the New Books Network podcast, Research Fellow Patrick Beldio discusses his latest work, The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga (2024), in conversation with Raj Balkaran.
March 26, 2025
On April 10, 2025, Berkley Center Research Fellow Lucinda Mosher will moderate a panel at the "3rd Sacred Languages Symposium: Human Dignity," hosted by Hartford International University for Religion & Peace. The symposium explores how sacred texts across diverse traditions articulate and uphold the concept of human dignity.
March 14, 2025
Minahil Mahmud Khan (SFS'25), a 2024 Education and Social Justice Fellow, has won the 2025 Andretta Fellowship to research political dynamics in Pakistan after the ousting of Imran Khan in 2022. This achievement reflects her ongoing commitment to social justice and political research.
