Pluralism-local-list March 2013

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Veritas Forum TONIGHT; Diversity Dialogues; Swami Vivekananda at 150; Movie Night; IFYI; State of Formation

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear friends in Greater Boston, Please see below for information about upcoming local events and opportunities, including the following: - Veritas Forum: Under God? The Role of Religion in Public Life, Harvard University (TONIGHT!) - Diversity Dialogues: "Religious Literacy, Islam and the Arts", Harvard Graduate School of Education (3/7) - Remembering Swami Vivekananda at 150, Harvard University (3/8) - Movie Night with the Pluralism Project and the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (3/12) - Summer Staff and Teen Participants, Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI) 2013, CMM, Waltham, MA (Summer 2013; staff apply by 3/8 - deadline extended) - State of Formation, Call for Contributing Scholars (Spring 2013) For more information, please contact each respective sponsoring organization. Best wishes, The Pluralism Project Staff ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Under God? The Role of Religion in Public Life* The 17th Annual Veritas Forum at Harvard University Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA Tuesday, March 5, 8pm (TONIGHT!) What is the role of religion in public life? How should we order our society around questions of ultimate meaning and purpose? Join legendary Harvard professor *Michael Sandel *and University of Chicago public intellectual *Jean Bethke Elshtain* for an evening dialogue on life's hardest questions. More info at veritas.org/harvard. Please RSVP here <https://www.facebook.com/events/133102600177874/>. Sponsored by Harvard's Christian ministries* *- AACF, ABSK, AIA, BCF, CI, HCFA, HGSCF, HUF, HRCF, HCR&R -* *In Partnership with: Harvard Hillel, Harvard Buddhist Chaplaincy, Humanist Community at Harvard, Harvard Pluralism Project, Harvard Philosophy Department, Center for the Study of World Religions, Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard, Foursquare Chaplaincy, The Harvard Ichthus, and Under Construction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * *Diversity Dialogues: "Religious Literacy, Islam and the Arts"* Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Larson 203, HGSE Thursday, March 7, 4pm Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Brendan Randall,, Ed.D. Candidate, Moderator Prof. Asani is committed to promoting religious literacy and has worked with educators in multiple contexts, including developing curriculum for the Islamic Studies Initiative that has been used in Kenya, Pakistan, and Texas. In his own teaching, Prof. Asani makes extensive use of the arts, including literature, calligraphy and music, to expose students to the diversity within Islam. Prof. Asani will discuss the importance of religious literacy and how educators can use the arts as a pedagogical tool to promote cultural understanding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Remembering Swami Vivekananda at 150: Interfaith Then & Now* Center for the Study of World Religions & Harvard Hindu Students Association "Dharma" Sever Hall 113, Harvard Yard Friday, March 8, 5.30pm Come this Friday to an interfaith event to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda, a hugely influential interfaith figure. Panelists include Prof. Brian Hatcher (Tufts University), Mou Banerjee (Harvard University graduate student), Prof. Francis X. Clooney (Harvard Divinity School), and Chris Conway (Boston College graduate student). Harvard Hindu Chaplain Swami Tyagananda will serve as moderator. Come early at 5pm for a live music prelude and slideshow of photos of Swami Vivekananda. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * *Movie Night: "La Trappe" and "In Ordinary Time"* The Pluralism Project and the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge Tuesday, March 12, 8pm The Pluralism Project and the Center for the Study of World Religions will be hosting a movie night featuring "La Trappe" and "In Ordinary Time," two short documentary films by Canadian filmmaker Lina Verchery. A discussion with the director will follow the screening. "In Ordinary Life" follows Buddhist monastics of Avatamsaka Sagely Monastery in Calgary, Alberta, highlighting everyday experiences of life and death. "La Trappe" explores the delicate connections that exist, despite differences of language, culture, and religion, between Buddhist monastics and lobster fishermen in a Cape Breton village. * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * *IFYI Summer Staff Opportunities and College, Teen Participants * Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI), Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM) Brandeis University, Waltham, MA June 25 - July 2, 2013 - *Summer Staff application deadline extended to March 8* Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI) is seeking applications from seminarians, graduate school mentors, and religious leaders for full-time staff positions at our dynamic ten-day exploration of peacemaking, vocation, interfaith dialogue, spirituality, service, urban immersion, and leadership training. IFYI is a program of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, in partnership with Episcopal Divinity School, Northeastern University, and Harvard Pluralism Project. The theme of IFYI this year will be "The Ways of Truth and Love." Staff positions require participation in an extended planning session and a conference call during the Spring. More information, including application details, is available here<http://www.coopmet.org/IFYI.html> . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Contributing Scholars* State of Formation Spring 2013 (rolling) The 2013 Spring Call for Contributing Scholars is now open, and State of Formation is requesting nominations. State of Formation is a community conversation between young leaders, who, together, form a cohort of seminarians, rabbinical students, graduate students, working to redefine the ethical discourse today. Nominees should be currently enrolled in an institution for theological or philosophical formation -- or up to three years out of their graduate program in a professional setting. Contributors should be able to commit to post monthly articles on the forum and comment on other articles while showing respect others from different traditions. More information, including the nomination form, is available on the State of Formation website here<http://www.stateofformation.org/state-of-formation-nominations/>. Nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis through the 2013 spring academic term. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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Pluralism-local-list March 2013