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October 2015
Fall Colloquium 2015
Confronting Religious Violence The Institute for Contesting Religious Violence invites scholars to participate in a two day Colloquium to investigate religiously motivated violence. The Colloquium’s roundtable discussions shall include various religious, scholarly and political enquiries that look at the history of co-existence of different religions in the Middle-East, Africa and Asia. The Colloquium is particularly focused on the current crisis in Iraq and Syria. Killings of a massive number of innocent people in Syria and Iraq by ISIS and the…
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SAMS 16th International Conference on Bosnia
Director of the IFCRV Conrad Fischer Received a Humanitarian Award by the Syrian Medical Society For the information on this item please contact Conrad Fischer
Find out more »December 2016
Fall Colloqium 2016
Exploring Religious Violence: the Historical Roots and Modern Dimensions of Violence in the Name of God The Institute for Contesting Religious Violence, and The Sophia Institute of Eastern Christian Thought and Culture announce a Fall Colloquium centered on the studies of Religious Violence to be held on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 2, 2016. It invited scholars to collaborate on an exploratory project elucidating the central themes of religious violence, their historical roots and manifestations,…
Find out more »March 2017
American Academy of Religion Mid-Atlantic Annual Conference
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL-AAR) of the American Academy of Religion 2017 Annual Conference MAR-AAR-SBL 2017 Conference Program Photos from the event:
Find out more »April 2017
Spring Colloquium
Hospitality for Strangers and Legal Sanctuary: Interfaith Perspectives The Institute for Contesting Religious Violence (IFCRV) presents its Spring Colloquium on Theological Understandings of Hospitality for Strangers and Legal Sanctuary to be held on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in New York on Friday, April 28, 2017. IFCRV is seeking submission of presentations across religious traditions elucidating scriptural, canonical and spiritual prescripts for the gifts of hospitality and sanctuary to the stranger. The intention is that these will be podium presentations…
Find out more »November 2017
Art Exhibition Opening
Echoes of the Blast: Art, Faith and Culture 100 Years After the Revolution Press Release The Russian Revolution changed the map of Europe (and the world, of course); it also changed the social, political and psychological map of the Western World forever. At the same time, its effect upon art was can be seen as relatively late shockwaves of an earlier blast – the artistic revolution of modernism, forever dividing the art of our world from the traditions upon which…
Find out more »December 2017
ISEC 2017 Conference
The Institute for Studies of Eastern Christianity (ISEC) of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (formerly the Sophia Institute of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Studies) and the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary are happy to announce the upcoming fall 2017 conference on the theme of Creation, Redemption and Environmental Ethics from the Eastern Christian Perspective. The Conference will take place on the campus of Union Theological Seminary(3041 Broadway @ 121st St, New York, NY 10027) on Friday, December…
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