Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, vice president of the G20 Interfaith Forum, is co-hosting a March 13 webinar to gather insights on key global issues from those involved in the UN Human Rights Council events, while at the same time tapping prominent actors and institutions based in Geneva.

In honor of International Women's Day, Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari will participate in a March 8 virtual talk about the diversity of religious positions on women's rights and the politicization of Islam across Muslim countries and among Muslim minorities. The event is hosted by Syracuse University's Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.

Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belzer will deliver a March 22 webinar on "Hope and Grief in the Age of Climate Change." Arguing against cultural tropes of widespread cataclysm often found in Jewish text, Belzer will empower the embodied ethics of contemporary queer disability communities on the frontlines of climate disruption, showing how disability practices of collective care offer hope.

Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff attended the opening of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi on February 16. This multibuilding complex includes a mosque, church, and synagogue, and it is designed to carry forward the legacy of Pope Francis’ historic trip to the United Arab Emirates in February 2019 and the signing of the Document on Human Fraternity.