Convivio: Dinner & Conversation
Inter-religious Learning
with Dr. Celene Ibrahim and Dr. Jennifer Peace
Monday, November 16, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Register Now!The President of Andover Newton Theological School invites you to
CONVIVIO: A BANQUET OF MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION
Finding yourself stirred by current events and local demonstrations?
Hungering for deeper understanding?
Join us for dinner & conversation with Dr. Celene Lizzio, Muslim Scholar, and Dr. Jennifer Peace, Assistant Professor of Interfaith Studies on the importance of Inter-religious learning.
Celene Ibrahim lectures and publishes widely on topics including the histories and theologies of interreligious relations, Islamic religious leadership and higher education, Islam and Muslims in North America, Islamic family law, Muslim feminist theology, and Qur’anic studies. Some of her recent publications include, “Interreligious Encounter in Women’s Words: Two Late Nineteenth Century American Accounts,” in Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, and “Religion, Gender, and Family Law: Critical Perspectives on Integration for European Muslims,” with Zainab Alwani, in Muslim Family Law in Western Societies, edited by M. S. Berger (Leiden University Press). Other recent essays appear in the award winning Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women; in Religious Leadership: A Reference Handbook, edited by S. H. Callahan (Sage); and in the anthology Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, edited by Elif Mendeni, Ednan Aslan, and Marcia Hermansen (Peter Land Verlag). She contributes regularly to The Journal of Muslim World Affairs, among other publications.
Ms. Ibrahim also serves as an Associate at the Center for the Study of Jewish Christian Muslim Relations at Merrimack College and is completing a doctorate at Brandeis University in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations. She has been recognized as a Harvard Presidential Scholar and a Fellow in Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, among other distinctions. Ms. Ibrahim earned a Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandies University, a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and a bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern Studies with highest honors from Princeton University. She is deeply committed to Islamic scholarship and fostering interreligious learning environments.
Jennifer Peace is Associate Professor of Interfaith Studies and co-directs the Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE) a joint program between ANTS and the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College. She received her doctorate in the Historical and Cultural Study of Religions from the Graduate Theological Union. She also directs the Interreligious Center for Public Life.
Dr. Peace’s involvement in interfaith organizing outside of academia includes being a founding board member of the United Religions Initiative, an early leader of the Interfaith Youth Core, and a founding member of the Daughters of Abraham – a movement of book groups for Jewish, Christian and Muslim women. Author of numerous articles and essays on interfaith cooperation, Dr. Peace co-edited My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis 2012). In addition, she serves as one of the publishers of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue. Dr. Peace has been an interfaith organizer and educator since the 1990’s and served as a founding board member of the United Religions Initiative, a founding leader of the Interfaith Youth Core, and a founding member of the Daughters of Abraham book groups.
Together, Celene and Jennifer co-direct (with Rabbi Or Rose) the Center for Inter-religious and Leadership Education (CIRCLE), a joint venture between Andover Newton and Hebrew College & Rabbinical School.
Bring the student in you out for dinner with two leading theologians. Learn what these two religious leaders are thinking, and consider how you might engage in the world differently. Keep learning, keep living.