[Grad_history_students] ARC Speaker Series: "Embracing the Ethnic and Religious Other: Religious Obstacles and Resources"

[Judy Ossello]

The American Refugee Committee's Speaker Series Event Featuring Scott
Appleby "Embracing the Ethnic and Religious Other: Religious Obstacles
and Resources"

The American Refugee Committee (ARC) is pleased to announce plans to
hold its first in a series of Speaker Series events in Chicago focusing
on various issues in international development topics. 

ARC's first event will be a cooperative venture with Chicago Sister
Cities International and the Illinois Society for International
Development. 

The event will feature Dr. Scott Abbleby, Professor of History at Notre
Dame and Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace
Studies. Appleby is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred:
Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); and
co author, with Gabriel Almond and Emmanuel Sivan, of Strong Religion:
The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World (Chicago, 2003). The event
will be moderated by Joe Bock, ARC Vice President author of Sharpening
Conflict Management: Religious Leadership and the Double-edged. 

Dr. Appleby will highlight the importance of Non Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) working with people regardless of faith identity in
post conflict countries that suffered from ethnic cleansing.  His
presentation will reflect insights he has gleaned from his work at the
Kroc Institute at Notre Dame and as the Co Director of the
Fundamentalism Project under the auspices of the University of Chicago. 


Please plan to join us on June 10th Chicago Cultural Center (Randolph &
Michigan Avenues, enter at Randolph  Street  take elevators to 5th
floor) from 6:00 - 8:00pm. 

ARC has chosen to make its first Speaker Series event free to its
friends, donors and sponsors. Members of Chicago Sister Cities
International and the Illinois Society for International Development may
also attend at no charge.

While the event is free, reservations are required. Please RSVP to:
jburnison at burnisongroup.com or call the ARC office: 312.552.3753. 
Seating is limited so please reserve your spot now. Registration will
close June 7th.

The American Refugee Committee, based in Minneapolis, is an
international nonprofit, non-sectarian organization providing
humanitarian assistance and training to more than one million people in
Africa, Asia and Europe. ARC works for the survival, health, and
well-being of people caught in the crossfire of war or civil conflict.


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Scott Appleby is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame,
where he also serves as the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B.
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.  From 1993 to 2002
Appleby directed Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American
Catholicism.  From 1988 to 1993 he was co director of the Fundamentalism
Project, an international public policy study conducted by the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.  From 1982 to 1987 he chaired the
religious studies department of St. Xavier College, Chicago.

A historian of religion who earned the Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago (1985), Appleby is the author of numerous books on religious
history and fundamentalist movements. Essays and articles by Professor
Appleby have appeared in Foreign Policy, Harvard Theological Review,
Journal of American History, The New York Times Book Review, American
Journal of Education, Lingua Franca, The Review of Politics, Church
History, The Christian Century, America, Commonweal, U.S. Catholic and
U.S. Catholic Historian.  Appleby lives in Granger, Indiana, with his
wife, Peggy, and their four children.

Joseph G. Bock is Vice President of American Refugee Committee (ARC), a
non-governmental organization that specializes in humanitarian work with
refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa, Asia and the
Balkans.  He is also an adjunct professor in the Conflict Transformation
Program at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia He
formerly served as country representative of Catholic Relief Services'
program in Pakistan and then in Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza Strip, and was
a member of the Working Group on Reconciliation of Caritas
Internationalis, the worldwide confederation of Catholic relief and
development agencies, based in Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in International
Relations from the School of International Service at American
University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Sharpening Conflict
Management: Religious Leadership and the Double-edged Sword (Praeger,
2001).


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