Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

Page 78

Symposia
12.15 - 1.00 Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, India. Her expertise on issues of food security includes intellectual property rights and biodiversity as well as community action,
HIV/AIDS pandemic including the current understanding of the disease from a molecular biologist and the global epidemiology from a physical anthropologist.
Presenters: Gayle Woloschak, Professor of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Solomon Katz, Prof. of Physical Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Barbara Strassberg, Professor of Sociology, Aurora University, Aurora, IL, USA
Session III A 3.00 - 3.45 Elizabeth Dowler, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, is a qualified public health nutritionist with many years of research and professional experience in the social, public health and policy aspects of nutrition and food at local, national and international levels.
Session II: Religion and HIV/AIDS - What can religions say about the disease together and how can religious leaders act to help treatment and prevention? 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Sagrada Familia Room, AC Barcelona
3-45-4-30 Group conversation
Session III B 3.00 -3.45 Antje Lorch is a biologist working as a consultant focusing on the scientific and political discussion about genetic engineering in agriculture related to various cultures and societies.
This panel aims to introduce views from the various religions in an effort to discover areas of common assessment and concern so that we can also discover how the religious communities can become more effective agents for education and for enabling efforts at intervention and prevention.
3-45-4.30 Group conversation
Symposium Coordinator: Antje Jackelén, Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology/Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA
Presenters: VV. Raman, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Scholar of Hinduism, The Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY USA; Ghulam-Haider Aasi, Professor of Islamic Studies, American Islamic College, Chicago, IL, USA; Joseph Edelheit, Professor of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA; Christoffer Grundmann, John R. Eckrich Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts, University Professor, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, USA; Pinit Ratanakul, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Thailand
• Symposium on HIV/AIDS: "Listening to
Understand and Committing To Act Together"
Session III: Toward a Strategy of Action - Raising Awareness and Planning Cooperation 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Sants, Eixample, and Gràcia Rooms, AC Barcelona
Symposium Coordinator: Prof. James F. Moore is director of interfaith programs at the Zygon Center for Religion and Science and professor of theology at Valparaiso University in Indiana, USA. He is author of the newly published volumes Post-Shoah Dialogues and Toward a Dialogical Community and is special editor of two issues of ZYGON on HIV/AIDS and the inter-faith dialogue.
This final session becomes an opportunity to strategize what can be done and talk further about the details introduced in previous sessions.
Session I: Science and HIV/AIDS - What we know about the disease, its cause, spread, treatment and prevention 9:30 am - 11:00 am, Sagrada Familia Room, AC Barcelona
Presenters: James Moore, Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso Indiana, and Director of Inter-faith Programs, Chicago, IL, USA (The Chicago Project); Prof. Joseph Edelheit, Professor of Religion and Director of Jewish Studies, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA and Scott Norling, Director, Gospel Missions of India, Hyderabad, India (The India Project)
This panel will explore the most recent scientific information that informs our discussion of the current state of the
Parliament of the World's Religions 2004
77