Pluralism-list March 2017

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REMINDER: Religion and Conflict Transformation workshop tomorrow (Tuesday 3/28)

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear friends, We hope you will be able to join us for a meaningful day of workshops tomorrow (Tuesday) on how to seek out "higher ground." Speakers and facilitators include the Pluralism Project's own Research Director, Elinor Pierce, as well as Rev. Mariama White Hammond, Bob Stains, Salma Kazmi, Rabbi Or Rose, and many other illustrious leaders! Register at the link below and check out the attached flier. *Seeking Higher Ground: Religion and Conflict Transformation**Tuesday, March 28, * *9 am-4 pm, Hebrew College* *(co-sponsored event- check out fliers for other sponsors)**This one day workshop will explore the vision of our religious communities as contexts for the discovery of “higher ground.” The presentations will be interactive and will offer specific skills and practices from the world of conflict transformation to assist professional and lay leaders in realizing this vision. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2lVQDDO&d=CwMFAg…>PLURALISM PROJECT EVENTS COMING UP...* *Performance and Discussion of “Kultar’s Mime”**Sunday, April 9, * *4-6 pm, Tsai Auditorium, Harvard University**“Kultar's Mime” is a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate a 1903 Pogrom that targeted Jews in the Russian town of Kishinev. During their journey, they learn about the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs in Delhi and in a powerful moment of embracing the pain of the 'other', they shift focus and decide to tell a story that the world has largely ignored. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_k…>YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED...* *Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium event: "Beyond Militarization: The Role of Religious Communities in the Struggle for Justice and Peace"**Thursday, April 6, 6-8:30 pm* *, Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave.**At a time when the White House proposes to increase military spending by $54 billion while slashing funds for social programs at home and humanitarian aid abroad, we recall the warning of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that a nation spending more money on the military than on social uplift "is approaching spiritual death." What role can religious communities play today in resisting war and militarism and working for social and economic justice? Speaker David Cortright (University of Notre Dame) and respondent J. Bryan Hehir (Harvard Kennedy School and Catholic Archdiocese of Boston) REGISTER HERE <https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bEjlM396uGy9XqB>* Best wishes, Pluralism Project staff -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 1 month

Save the date for 2 events!

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear friends, We want to invite you to mark your calendars for two upcoming events in our new initiative, “Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston," which we kicked off with our first event <https://www.facebook.com/pg/pluralismproj/photos/?tab=album&album_id=135440…> this week. (You can read more about the initiative here <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…>!) Fliers for both events are attached. We hope you will be able to join us! As always, please let us know if you have any questions. *Seeking Higher Ground: Religion and Conflict Transformation**Tuesday, March 28, * *9 am-4 pm, Hebrew College* *(co-sponsored event- check out fliers for other sponsors)**This one day workshop will explore the vision of our religious communities as contexts for the discovery of “higher ground.” The presentations will be interactive and will offer specific skills and practices from the world of conflict transformation to assit professional and lay leaders in realizing this vision. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2lVQDDO&d=CwMFAg…>* *Performance and Discussion of “Kultar’s Mime”**Sunday, April 9, * *4-6 pm, Tsai Auditorium, Harvard University**“Kultar's Mime” is a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate a 1903 Pogrom that targeted Jews in the Russian town of Kishinev. During their journey, they learn about the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs in Delhi and in a powerful moment of embracing the pain of the 'other', they shift focus and decide to tell a story that the world has largely ignored. **REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_k…>* Best wishes, Pluralism Project staff -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 2 months

March 7th event and exciting news!

by Pluralism Project Staff

*WHAT: Roundtable Discussion: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston* *WHEN & WHERE: March 7th at 6 pm in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard University* *MORE INFO: Click here <https://www.facebook.com/events/962567907176893/>* Dear friends, We hope our local allies will join us for our upcoming event on March 7th. This event will serve as the kickoff to a larger project, which brings us to some exciting news: *The Pluralism Project has received a grant from the Open Society Foundations' initiative "Communities Against Hate."* We are eager to gather a diverse group of voices together for the first event in this series, so please take a moment to register <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JTRBBCZ> if you would like to join us on Tuesday, March 7th. Our initiative, "Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…>," will bring together leaders and community members from religious, interfaith, and civic groups for monthly sessions over the next 6 months where attendees can network, share information, and collaborate on best practices. The Pluralism Project will also be documenting support efforts and bias-motivated incidents while creating a centralized calendar for events and actions. We are eager to partner with local leaders and groups to build and strengthen multi-sided networks of response and resilience. Below this message you will find the press release with more details about the program, and you can bookmark the initiative page <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…> to stay up-to-date on relevant events and endeavors. We are also offering summer internships <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/internship-opportunities/> to support this work, so please pass this along to any undergraduate or graduate students (from any college or university) who might be interested. We hope to see many of you on Tuesday, and we look forward to keeping you updated as we move forward on this timely and important project! Best wishes, The Pluralism Project staff -------------------------------------- *Pluralism Project Launches Initiative “Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston” Through Grant from the Open Society Foundations* *Cambridge, MA, March 1, 201*7– On March 7th, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University will launch its new initiative, “Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston.” The public event, held at 6 pm in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall on Harvard’s campus, will be a roundtable discussion with civic and religious leaders as well as members of communities most affected by increased hate speech and bias-motivated harassment. This event will include civic leaders from the Attorney General’s Office, Cambridge City Council, the ACLU, and other local organizations. The second event in this project, a performance and discussion of the powerful play “Kultar’s Mime,” will take place in early April in Cambridge. This project is made possible by a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ rapid-response initiative, “Communities Against Hate,” which allocates multiple small grants for projects responding to and fighting against acts of hate while supporting collaboration, cooperation, and bridge-building among vulnerable communities and their allies. The Pluralism Project’s longstanding track record as a trusted resource for research, education, and collaboration makes it an ideal partner for this initiative of the Open Society Foundations. Incidents of hate crimes and bias-motivated harassment are rising in Greater Boston, from spray-painted swastikas in high school bathrooms to the verbal harassment of Sikh and Muslim college students. At the same time, we have seen a striking increase in civic response that builds solidarity. The Project’s 8-month initiative will collaborate with Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian communities to track incidents of harassment as well as the response of local communities. This project will also include monthly sessions for leaders from these communities in order to centralize information sharing, document local incidents, offer skill-building opportunities, and allow leaders to network and share best practices in increasingly difficult times. Pluralism Project staff will also develop a decision-based case study about a Boston incident that might enable leaders and laity to understand some of the dilemmas and strategies of response when an individual or community is attacked. Pluralism Project Director and Harvard University Professor Diana Eck expressed her excitement for the work ahead: “In this climate of fear, threat, and uncertainty that affects many vulnerable communities, it is urgent to develop multi-sided networks of response and resilience. We need to hear each other -- Sikhs, Muslims, Jews, and Christians, African Americans and Latinos, mayors and city councilors. Whether the harassment of a Sikh student at Harvard or the swastikas on a suburban school wall, the issues we face are of mutual concern across lines of faith. For many years, the Pluralism Project has been at the forefront of documenting the fast-changing religious landscape of greater Boston. I look forward to this opportunity to convene a working group of religious and civic leaders as we face the future together.” As OSF moves forward with other grantees in the Boston area, the Pluralism Project will work to build relationships and collaborate with these new partners. For more information on the event and this initiative, please visit the Pluralism Project website (www.pluralism.org). -------------------------------------- *Want to invest with us in this immensely important work?* *Make a tax-deductible donation online <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/> or donate by check at the address below, payable to Harvard University (Memo note: "Pluralism Project")Want to get involved?* *Email us <staff(a)pluralism.org>, follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pluralismproj/?fref=ts> to learn about events, films, and organizations, or call us to find out about opportunities to engage* -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…> !

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