Harvard Divinity School

WSRP Research Associate Changshen Shi (Ching-ning Wang) delivers the talk, "The Making of A Modern Female Chan Teacher: Gender, Religion, and Modernity."

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Iqbal Akhtar, Associate Professor, Florida International University, “The Indic Chronicle of Light from Zanibar”

Kim Wortmann, PhD Student, Harvard University, “Zanzibar and Oman: Ibadi Revival in an East Africa town”

Caity Bolton, PhD Student, Graduate Center CUNY, “Divine Science: Knowledge, Islamic Education and Development in Zanzibar”

Ahmed Sharif, PhD student, NYU, “Somalia, Sudan, and the rise of Scholar Politics in the ICU”

Panel chair: Kai Kresse, Columbia University

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa website:

http://hds.harvard.edu/texts-knowledge-practice-africa

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Abdulkadir Hashim, Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies Praise and Prestige: Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals in the Late Twentieth Century Kenya Coast

Lidwien Kapteijns, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of History, Wellesley College, and Alessandra Vianello, Affiliated Researcher at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), ʻIlm and the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c. 1890–1925

Hassan Mwakimako, Associate Professor, Department of Religious and Philosophical Studies, Pwani University Kenya, “Swahili Islamic Manuscripts; the Friday khutba of Shaykh Al-Amin b. Ali al-Mazrui, 1890-1947.”

Kai Kresse, Associate Professor Columbia University, ‘Enduring relevance. Sample of Oral Poetry on the Swahili Coast

Panel chair: Chanfi Ahmed, Humboldt Universität

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa website:

http://hds.harvard.edu/texts-knowledge-practice-africa

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Ousmane Kane, Alwaleed Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School delivers a lecture titled “History, Movement, and the Spread of Islamic Scholarship in Muslim Africa.”

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Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier, Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, and project director Andrew Finstuen discuss Doblmeier's documentary on Reinhold Niebuhr.

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School moderated the discussion.

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Divinity School professors have long taught ethics in the Yard. Beginning early in the 1880s, as HDS pioneered the analysis of "social problems" using the case method, Francis Peabody taught an undergraduate course on urban ills. Students called it "drainage, drunkenness, and divorce."

Today teaching has to address other ethical anxieties. Despite claims of universal liberation, many of them have to do with sexuality and gender.

Professor Mark Jordan discusses teaching sexual ethics at Harvard in the age of hook-up apps, fluid identities, and "affirmative consent."

Mark D. Jordan is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

For over 20 years, January 16th has been recognized annually in the United States as Religious Freedom Day.

Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, and Dudley Rose, associate dean for Ministry Studies discuss religious freedom as a principle based not on shared ancestry, culture, or faith but on a shared commitment to liberty.

Moderated by Aisha Ansano, MDiv ’16, ministerial intern at First Church in Boston.

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Vinya Ariyaratne, Nobuyuki Asai, Tara Gingerich, and Susan Hayward discuss the humanitarian crisis of a natural disaster.

Diane L. Moore moderated the discussion.

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Jean Duff, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, and Katherine Marshall discuss the humanitarian crisis of infectious disease through the lens of Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

Stephen Prothero moderated the discussion.

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Fadi Hallisso, Azza Karam, Anwar Khan, and Tahir Zaman discuss the humanitarian crisis of the Syrian conflict.

Diane L. Moore moderated the discussion.

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