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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council LaunchedSeptember 25, 2020
Hartford Seminary’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council, established this summer after President Joel N. Lohr called on the Seminary’s leadership to respond to the national reckoning around racial justice, had its first meeting on Sept. 17.
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Phoebe Milliken Named Faculty Associate in International PeacebuildingSeptember 24, 2020
Phoebe Milliken, Coordinator of the International Peacemaking Program, has been promoted to Faculty Associate in International Peacebuilding and Director of the International Peacemaking Program.
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Call for Papers for 2021 Luce-Hartford ConferenceSeptember 22, 2020
An abstract of 500 words is due November 1, 2020. Papers of selected participants are due February 15, 2021. Selected authors and contributors will be invited to the June 7-9, 2021 Hartford Conference on Christian-Muslim Relations to present their papers. Selected papers will then be published in the 2021 summer edition of The Muslim World.
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Carpenter Foundation Awards $80,000 Grant for LGBTQ+ PeacemakersSeptember 10, 2020
The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation has awarded Hartford Seminary an $80,000 grant to support LGBTQ+ students in the International Peacemaking Program (IPP).
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Hartford Seminary Supports #ScholarStrike to Address Racism, InjusticeSeptember 9, 2020
Hartford Seminary faculty canceled academic meetings and evening synchronous classes on Tuesday and Wednesday, the opening days of school, to participate in the nationwide #ScholarStrike focusing on “the urgent importance of addressing racism and injustice in the United States.”
Faculty In The News
Dr. Miriam Therese Winter Releases New Book on Jesus
September 8, 2020
Miriam Therese Winter, Director of Hartford Seminary’s Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Spirituality and of the Women’s Leadership Institute, has a new book about a “living, loving, inclusive Jesus.”
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Community Update - A New Strategic Vision
September 3, 2020
By 2025, Hartford Seminary will be the nation’s leading resource for interreligious education, research, and peace studies, providing cutting-edge research and immersive learning opportunities that enable leaders and institutions to thrive in a religiously complex world.
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Alums, Dean Contribute to Journal of Interreligious Studies
August 31, 2020
Two Hartford Seminary International Peacemaking alums contributed articles to the most recent issue of the Journal of Interreligious Studies, a special issue in collaboration with the Russell Berrie Fellowship program in Interreligious Studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. Academic Dean David D. Grafton also contributed a book review.
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Louisville Institute Awards $44,000 Grant for Latinx Research Project
August 19, 2020
The Louisville Institute has awarded Hartford Seminary a grant of $44,150 for a Collaborative Inquiry Team project called “The Presence of Latinx Pastors in Non-Latinx Mainline Protestant Churches: Impact and Learning.”
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The Porch Magazine Adds the Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper as Columnist
August 6, 2020
The Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper, Faculty Associate in Religious Leadership, is The Porch Magazine’s newest columnist under the moniker The Dolly Mama.