Calendar
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. CSWR events are free and wheelchair accessible.
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November
Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14
Honoring the Career of Professor David Little
Location: Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave.
David Little retired in 2009 as Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School and as an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. A conference on religion, ethics, and peace will celebrate the important role Little has played in shaping the fields of religious ethics, peace, justice, and human rights studies. Participants include: Abullahi An-Na'im, Scott Appleby, Jacqueline Bhabha, Cole Durham, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, David Gergen, Jeremy Gunn, Susan Hayward, Bryan Hehir, Grace Kao, John Kelsay, Yehezkel Landau, Atalia Omer, Rodney Petersen, Gene Outka, John Reeder, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Edmund Santurri, Donald Swearer, Ronald Thiemann, and Barney Twiss. Co-sponsored by Harvard Divinity School and the Kroc Institute for International Peace, University of Notre Dame. See press release for more information.
Tuesday, November 17, 5:15-7 pm
The Nestorian Stele
A presentation by Charles Stang, Assistant Professor of Early Christian Thought, Harvard Divinity School. The Nestorian Stele, a facsimile of which hangs in the CSWR stairwell, is an eighth-century monument from Western China, commemorating a seventh-century mission of "Nestorian" Christians who brought with them from the West what the monument calls jingjiao, "the luminous religion." An event supported by the CSWR Faculty Grant program.
Wednesday, November 18, 5:15-7 pm
Religious Values and Global Health
Location: Tsai Auditorium (S-010), 1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS South)
A lecture in the Ecologies of Human
Flourishing series by Arthur
Kleinman, M.D., Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University's Asia Center.
This talk will examine how the moral imperative to address health and mental health needs and inequalities globally creates opportunities to move toward an ecology of human flourishing. This global focus illuminates with a new light core moral processes linking religion to pro-social caregiving and humanitarian assistance interventions. A message of humanistic understanding, drawing on what is at stake in people's lives, runs through both religious thought and this new global health perspective, thus opening up avenues of dialogue between the two fields. One of the world's leading medical anthropologists, Kleinman is also a major figure in cultural psychiatry, global health, and social medicine. Since 1968, Kleinman, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist, has conducted research in Chinese society on depression, somatization, epilepsy, schizophrenia and suicide, and other forms of violence. His most recent book,
What Really Matters (2006), addresses existential dangers and uncertainties that make moral experience, religion, and ethics so crucial
today. A response will be given by Paul
Farmer, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is also Chair, and a founding director of
Partners In Health. Reservations are required.
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