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The Interfaith Forum of Rochester and the Gene Bennett Program for Life Long Learning present:
Religious Scholars’ “Favorite Lecture” Series:
Scholars of religion will offer Thursday noontime lectures on their favorite subject or their current research and publications. Lectures will be held in the Remington Lounge at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch in the seminary refectory (except January).
Date: Thurs. Jan. 20 Time: Noon Location: CRCDS, Remington Lounge Cost: Free and open to the public
Presenter: MELANIE MAY, PH.D., John Price Crozer Professor of Theology, CRCDS
Dr. May will talk about her new book, Jerusalem Testament.
Date: Thurs. Feb. 17 Time: Noon Location: CRCDS, Remington Lounge Cost: Free and open to the public
Presenter: ANTHONY CERULLI, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Dr. Cerulli will present a lecture on Hinduism.
Date: Thurs. Mar. 17 Time: Noon Location: CRCDS, Remington Lounge Cost: Free and open to the public
Presenter: ETIN ANWAR, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Dr. Anwar is a feminist scholar of Islam and Islamic Studies.
Date: Thurs. Apr. 21 Time: Noon Location: CRCDS, Remington Lounge Cost: Free and open to the public
Presenter: LILI ZHANG, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Religion, Nazareth College
Dr. Zhang will present a lecture on Chinese religions.
Hindu Christian Dialogues:
The Gene Bennett Program for Life Long Learning and the Greater Rochester Community
 of Churches have partnered with the Hindu Temple of Rochester to initiate a Hindu
Christian Dialogue group. The group meets on the first Mondays of the month from 7:00–8:30 p.m. at the Hindu Temple of Rochester. Christian clergy and laity interested in becoming part of this new dialogue group should contact The Rev. Dr. Denise Yarbrough at dyarbrough@crcds.edu. Participants must be willing to attend monthly meetings and do some preparatory reading as part of the ongoing dialogue process.
Stanley I. Stuber Lectureship:Faith and Interfaith
Dates: Apr. 27 & 28 Times: see below Location: CRCDS, Samuel Colgate Memorial Chapel Cost: Free and open to the public
Lecture 1 Wed., Apr.27, 1:30–3 p.m. “Faith and Interfaith: The City and our Controversies”
Lecture 2 Thurs. Apr. 28, 9:45–11 a.m. “Faith and Interfaith: The Nation and our Challenges”
Presenter: DIANA ECK, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,  Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard University. BA, Smith College; MA, University of London; Postgraduate Diploma, Banaras Hindu University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America. Her work on India focuses on popular reli-gion, especially temples and places of pilgrimage, called tirthas. Her work on the United States focuses espe-cially on the challenges of religious pluralism in a multireligious society. Since 1991, she has headed the Plural-ism Project, which explores and interprets the religious dimensions of America's new immigration and the new issues of religious pluralism and American civil society. Her book A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation was published in 2001. Her book Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey From Bozeman to Banaras is in the area of Christian theology and interfaith dialogue. She is currently chair of the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of Churches. She is the recipient of many awards for her scholarship and her work in interfaith dialogue and pluralism.
To register, contact Colleen Fitzgibbons, (585) 340-9588 or cfitzgibbons@crcds.edu.
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