Hospitality for Strangers and Legal Sanctuary: Interfaith Perspectives
April 28th, 2017
The Stewart Room
8:30 – 9:00 Coffee
9:00 – 9:30 Introduction & Opening Remarks: Stephanie Quintana-Martinez
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote I: Amos Yong, “Hospitality, Sanctuary, and the Other: What Would the Apostles Do?” (Fuller theological seminary)
10:30 – 10:35 Coffee
10:35 – 11:45 PaneL: Sanctuary Conversation: From Sanctuary to Freedom
Moderator: Yasmin Yonis
- Carl Lipscombe, “From Sanctuary to Freedom” (BAJI)—30 min presentation
Talkback facilitated by moderators from:
- Ravi Ragbir, “Sanctuary, Freedom and Responsibility” (New Sanctuary)
- Nora Hirozawa, “Educational Institutions and the Fight for Sanctuary”
Followed by conversation with audience facilitated by moderator.
11:45 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 1:00 Keynote II: Pastor Alison Harrington, “Welcome the Stranger” (Southside Presbyterian Church)
1:00 – 2:00 Sanctuary and Media Panel
- Ravi Ragbir – Director of New Sanctuary
- André Daughtry – Conversations of Media Strategies around Sanctuary
- Joseph Leduc – Student organizing
- Ross Upshaw – Clergy activism
2:00–4:00NYC Presentations: How to Get INvolved?
Tables/Information
Interfaith Center of US: Muhammad Shahidullah
Ravi Ragbir: New Sanctuary
Gregory M. Halzen: Immigrant Justice Community Organizer
Luciano Kovacs: World Student Christian Federation Executive for North America
2:00 – 2:20 Faith in New York Presentation (Stewart Rm)
Gregory M. Halzen, Immigrant Justice Community Organizer
2:20 – 3:20 Short Communications
Islam at the Crossroads (Stewart Rm)
Moderator: Suzanne Schneider
- Matthew Anderson, “Blasphemy Law and Accommodation of Scholars” (Georgetown)
- Hasan Azad, “Islamic Moderns: Muhammad Iqbal and the Modern Islamic Self” (Columbia)
- Conrad Fischer, “12th century Knights Hospitallers and 21st century ISIS: What’s the difference?” (UTS)
Biblical and Historical Roots of Non-Violent Action (rm 203)
Moderator: V.K. McCarty
- Damiano Migliorini, “An Hospitable Gaze: between Biblical Echoes and Nonviolent Spirituality” (Univ. of Padua)
- Nicholas Soy “The Legacy of Philoxenia in American Orthodoxy” (Fordham)
- Zachary Pierce “Let Us not be Like Sodom: Revisiting the Cultural Critique of Genesis 19 in an Age of Refugee Crisis” (UTS)
3:20 – 4:20 Short Communications
History, Modernity on the Issues of the Other (Stewart Rm)
Moderator: Suzanne Schneider
- Roberto Alejandro “Reflections on Hospitality and Sanctuary from a Hip-Hop & Poverty Journalist” (Durham)
- Randy Goldson “Exodus Polemics: David Walker and the Politics of Inclusion” (Temple)
- Remi Alapo, “Building Bridges: The Methodology of Welcoming our Religious Other: One Family under God” (Unification)
Hospitality and Sanctuary in Late Antiquity and the Early Christian Centuries (rm 203)
Moderator: V.K. McCarty
- VK McCarty “Thekla the Protomartyr: Refuge in Hospitality” (GTS)
- Sergey Trostyanskiy “Imperial Persecution and Accommodation of Dissidents during the Time of Justinian” (UTS)
- Matthew Buccheri, “Come as You Are: A Look at Christian Hospitality throughout the Ages” (GTS)
4:20 – 5:00 Accompaniment Training (Stewart Rm)
- Ravi Ragbir: New Sanctuary
- Rev. Luis-Alfredo Cartagena Zayas, Outreach Park
Avenue Christian Church (DoC)/UCC, New Sanctuary Coalition NYC; Micah Faith Table Immigration Chair
5:00 – 6:00 Recapturing the Narrative (Stewart Rm)
Moderator: Conrad Fischer
- Conrad Fischer. “Engaging the American public to help Syrians”
- Arthur Prancan [Viesturs Pranctus], “Displaced Persons from Baltic States: Lives interrupted, not stopped” (Touro).
- Irene Kapustina, “Lost and Guided” A New Play on Refugees premiering August 2017 in NYC. The Angle Project: New York
5:00 – 6:00 Exegesis across Traditions (Rm 302)
Noderator: Suzanne Schneider
- Rabbi Joshua Jackson, “In Search of Greatness Through a Shared Experience” (Brookdale)
- Tobias Pinckney, “Who Are God’s Laborers? Luke 10 and 21st Century Refugee Opportunities” (UTS)