Berkley Center

Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser will lead a February 1 event to kick off Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion month. Hosted by the JFS Jewish Disabilities Advocates Collaborative, the event will focus on disability wisdom; creating communities of familiarity, interdependence, and care; and dismantling ableism.

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville will moderate a January 18 conversation hosted by the United States Institute of Peace to discuss key findings of the October 2023 report "Mapping the Religious Landscape of Ukraine." The report’s authors and other experts will offer important insights on the latest developments at the intersection of religion, politics, and security in Ukraine today.

Writing for the Washington Post, Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., reflects on how the Christmas holiday serves as a reminder of how much religious and secular people have to teach each other and how these developments help humanity move forward. As an example, he quotes Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J.'s notion of "intellectual solidarity."

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari has received an honorable mention from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion's (SSSR) 2023 Distinguished Book Award for her book We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2021).