Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

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

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PROGRAM DESS
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
writers of narrative non-fiction, journalists, reporters and academic authors will address these questions.
Barney Zwartz is religion editor of "The Age, where he has worked for 28 years. He has covered religion since 2002. Mr Zwartz has a degree in theology.
Professor James Jupp is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University.
Hanifa Deen is an award-winning Australian author of narrative nonfiction. She is of Pakistani ancestry; both her grandfathers came to Australia in the 19th century. Her books include: 'Caravanserai: Journey Among Australian Muslims'; 'Broken Bangles'; The Crescent and the Pen' and The Jihad Seminar".
Rabbi Aviva Kipen, (Session Facilitator), the first Australian woman ordained a rabbi, is experienced in international interreligious dialogue, education and innovative programming. Former Executive Secretary for the World Conference of Religions for Peace in Australia and a 2008 Australian Association of Southeast Asian Nations interfaith dialogue participant, she designed and delivered Victoria's Multi-faith Celebration of the Australian Centenary. Her core ministries have been as congregational rabbi, funeral and loss specialist, and researcher into the work of clergy in Human Research Ethics Committees.
Furthering Global Human Thriving through Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Discourse
James F Moore
Barbara Strassberg
Christoffer Grundmann
Joseph Edelheit
Rebecca Burroway
Fatima Sattar
Meg Bero
Room 214
Panel Discussion
This interdisciplinary program will focus on the critical issues of providing health care, especially to those in impoverished areas. Providing effective and sustainable health care requires attention to a complex interplay of factors that reach far beyond the building of clinics, training of health care professionals and dispensing of medications. Good health care stems from effective partnerships among a variety of people and institutions. Panel members will provide data on basic conditions of sanitation, safe water supply and child nutrition as well as the role that interethnic conflict and interreligious differences play in supporting or impeding an environment conducive to healthy living. This session will run for three hours, into the lunch hour.
James F Moore is Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University. He has authored numerous books and articles, including the Templeton awardwinning 'Cosmology and Theology: The Re-Emergence of Patriarchy". He is co-director of the HIV Symposium project at the Zygon Center for Religion and Science and is on the boards of the Wyman Institute, the Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science, and the Studies in the Shoah series of the University Press of America.
Barbara Strassberg is Professor and Chair of the Aurora University sociology program. Her academic interests include the sociology of culture. ethics, human rights, social justice, science and religion, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Strassberg earned her Master's and PhD from the Jagiellonian University and has studied at Ecole Superieure des Hautes Etudes and the University of Chicago. She is the author of two books and
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11:30am-1:00pm
INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION
more than one hundred articles, chapters, book reviews and conference papers.
Christoffer Grundmann, MTh, has been a Lutheran minister for over thirty years. He has taught at the Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, the University of Hamburg, and Valparaiso University, where he holds the John R Eckrich University Chair in Religion and the Healing Arts. He has also worked as theological consultant and chaplain at the German Institute for Medical Missions and with the Center for Health-Care Ethics of the Lutheran Church of Lower Saxony.
Dr Joseph Edelheit, Director of Religious and Jewish Studies and Professor of Philosophy at St Cloud State University, has been a rabbi for more than 35 years. He has a DMin from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and was the first rabbi to complete his doctoral work in Christian theology. He served on President Clinton's Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and currently co-directs Living India, a nonprofit focused on HIV/AIDS prevention education..
Rebecca Burroway received her BA in English and Sociology from Aurora University, MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and MA in Sociology from Duke University. A PhD candidate at Duke, Ms Burroway is currently involved in several other research projects examining health insurance inequality among low-income Americans, domestic violence and child immunisation rates in the Dominican Republic, cross-national disparities in AIDS death rates, and issues of control among female sex workers in India.
Fatima Sattar is currently a student and teaching assistant in the doctorate program in Sociology at Boston College. She received her MA in Middle Eastern Studies and BA in Sociology. Her MA research project is titled 'A Study on the Reconstruction of Memory of Violence from the Aftermath of the 1947 British Partition of India'. She presented her BA thesis research project, Varying Attitudes Toward Foreign Accents', at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in 2006.
Meg Bero is the Executive Director of the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures at Aurora University. Previous positions include curator, associate director and art educator. She has taught courses in Native American Spirituality and Native American Art and developed a museum studies curriculum for Aurora University. Bero has received awards for her curatorial work and educational programming and was named 1999 Illinois Museum Educator of the Year. She is featured in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women.
The Importance of Family
Elder Dirk Smibert
Dienen Karna
Rabbi Rayna Gevurtz Mejinderpal Kaur Room 215
This session will highlight the importance of family in faith communities and in society at large. Elder Dirk Smibert from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and religious leaders from other faiths will share their perspectives. The family provides the ideal selling to learn key values such as love, understanding, cooperation and service, which lead to the development of responsible, caring citizens contributing to more harmonious and productive communities at all levels. After hearing from each of the participants, the interfaith panel will discuss topical family issues together in an interactive forum.
As a Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Smibert supervises various jurisdictions in the Pacific Area of the Church, including assignments in Pacific Island nations, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Elder Smibert has served as one of the Church's mission presidents and has held various local leadership roles.. Professionally, Elder Smibert has primarily worked in senior positions within the advertising, marketing and sales industries. He is married and has five children.