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Lilly Endowment Awards Hartford Seminary $700,000 for Congregational Studies Project
January 1, 2012
Hartford Seminary is pleased to announce that it has received a $700,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to enlarge the conversation of engaged scholars studying congregations and to develop a website that disseminates resources for and insights from congregational studies.
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Seminary community mourns the death of mary colemanJanuary 1, 2012
The Hartford Seminary community is saddened at the passing of Mary E. Coleman, a Ph.D. student and administrator of the International Ph.D. Program at the Seminary. Mary, who taught courses in American religious history, also was Assistant Editor for the journal Reviews in Religion and Theology.
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Psychopathy and the New Manichean Challenge to Moral Agency with Andrew Flescher, Ph.D.November 17, 2011
This talk presents and evaluates the new "Manichean" challenge to standard (e.g. Kantian) accounts of evil that tend to rely, among other things, on a robust sense of personal responsibility.
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Tina Demo To Head Recruitment and AdmissionsOctober 25, 2011
Hartford Seminary President has appointed Mary C. (Tina) Demo as Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Hartford Seminary, effective October 31.
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Common Cause President Speaks at Hartford SeminaryOctober 20, 2011
Bob Edgar, president and chief executive officer of Common Cause, delivered the biennial Michael Rion Lecture on October 26, 2011, speaking on "How a Courageous Remnant Can Change the World."
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Ingrid mattson, director of Macdonald center, named to islamic studies chair in canadaOctober 10, 2011
Ingrid Mattson, Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, has been named the first London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies in the Theology Department of Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, effective July 1, 2012.
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Indonesian Officials Visit Hartford SeminaryOctober 5, 2011
Dr. H. Marsudi Syuhud, general secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's largest independent Muslim organization, and Professor Dr. Said Aqil Siroj, general chairman of NU, visited Hartford Seminary to discuss a partnership in education.
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The State of the Study of Shi'ite Islam in North America and EuropeSeptember 25, 2011
Hartford Seminary, in partnership with the Alavi Foundation, the Jafaria Association of Connecticut and the Islamic Institute of Ahl'albait, held a conference on "The State of the Study of Shi'ite Islam" on Saturday, October 8, at the Hartford Plaza Hotel, East Hartford, CT. Leading scholars of Shi'i Islam participated, and there was a concluding banquet, featuring Dr. Sayyed Hossein Nasr as the keynote speaker.
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Memorial Service for Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'September 20, 2011
Hartford Seminary held a memorial service for Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi', an expert on contemporary Muslim thought, who died suddenly of a heart attack on July 2 while attending a conference in Amman, Jordan. He had been an esteemed Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary from 1991 to 2008.
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Judaism and Islam in America: Religion and LegalismSeptember 15, 2011
Professor Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, and Professor Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, offered a free public lecture on "Judaism & Islam in America: Religion & Legalism" at the Mandell Jewish Community Center in West Hartford.
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