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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 Admissions
October 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 Seminary
October 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 canada
October 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 Seminary
October 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 Europe
September 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 Legalism
September 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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James K. Robertson Jr. To receive distinguished Graduate award
September 10, 2011
James K. Robertson Jr., a Trustee at Hartford Seminary and graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, has been awarded the Distinguished Graduate Award by the law school's Alumni Association.
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American Congregations Increase Interfaith Involvement
August 25, 2011
One legacy of the September 11 terrorists' attacks is a dramatic increase in American congregations' interfaith involvement in the past ten years.