Berkley Center

Senior Fellow José Casanova will participate in a November 6 conference at Luiss University in Rome on "Religions on War and Peace." Part of the Luiss Religions in Dialogue Forum, this event will gather students, researchers, and representatives of religious communities to discuss how religion as a factor of identity can become an instrument of division, but also a ground for dialogue and peace.

Reflecting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Knox Thames discuss how global persecution continues while domestic battles around religious liberty have become increasingly partisan and high-profile.

Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser participated in an October 24 talk at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies where she discussed how queer, feminist, and ecologically-informed disability wisdom can catalyze a radical recognition of the sacred among human, animal, and earthy kin.

Georgetown University's Intersectionality Series will host a November 2 event to launch Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole, a new book by Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser.