Hartford Seminary Presents

HARTFORD SEMINARY PRESENTS Winter/Spring 2010 Lectures, Seminars and Special Events for People of All Faiths

Each semester, Hartford Seminary offers a variety of lectures, seminars, workshops and continuing education courses. Featuring Hartford Seminary faculty and other prominent speakers, events are provided free of charge or at a nominal cost to allow access to all who wish to attend. Please consider joining us for some or all of these timely offerings. You can register online for any of these events. Please feel free to share this with any friends/colleagues that may be interested in these offerings.

JANUARY Food and Faith Conference Presentations, Panel Discussion and Table Conversations Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (snow date Thursday, January 28, 2010) 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Cost: $20 (includes vegetarian dinner) Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Food_and_Faith.html

FEBRUARY Interfaith Dialogue in Congregations A Continuing Education Workshop with Professors David A. Roozen and Heidi Hadsell. Dr. Roozen is Professor of Religion and Society and Director of the Seminary’s Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Dr. Hadsell is Professor of Social Ethics and President of Hartford Seminary. Wednesday, February 10 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. $30 (includes lunch) Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Interfaith_Dialogue.html

Islamic and Canon Law: Their Interaction with Today's Society With Professor Ingrid Mattson and Monsignor John McCarthy. Dr. Mattson is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. Msgr. McCarthy is Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Tuesday, February 23 7 p.m. Free Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Islamic_Law.html

MARCH Movie and Commentary African Christianity: Its Rise & Role in the Global Church With Jim Ault, documentary filmmaker and scholar. The evening will include a screening of “African Christianity Rising: Stories from Zimbabwe” and selected excerpts from a companion film, "Stories from Ghana." Tuesday, March 9 7 p.m. Free Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_African_Christianity.html

A Drumming Circle With Jan Gregory, owner of the Renaissance Center: Your Community Music School, and Director of Music Ministry, South Britain Congregational Church, UCC, both in Southbury, CT Mondays, March 15 and 29, April 12 and 26 and May 10 and 24 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $120 Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Spring_Drumming.html

APRIL Book Signing and Conversation Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul With G. Jeffrey MacDonald, journalist, author and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Tuesday, April 20 7 p.m. Free Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Thieves_in_Temple.html

MAY The Good, the Bad and the Sacred: Exploring Women in the Christian Scriptures With The Rev. Donna Manocchio, Associate Pastor of Rocky Hill Congregational Church and former Associate Director of Hartford Seminary’s Women’s Leadership Institute, and Janet Bristow, co-founder of the Prayer Shawl Ministry and graduate of the Women’s Leadership Institute. Saturday, May 1 9 a.m. to noon $20 Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Good_Bad_Sacred.html

JUNE Willem A. Bijlefeld Lecture A Theology of Compassionate Neighborliness: Building on “A Common Word” With Aref Ali Nayed, Senior Advisor to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Wednesday, June 9 6:30 p.m. Free Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Theology_Compassionate.html

The Basics of Christian Education: A Continuing Education Course for Christian Educators With The Rev. Charles H. Ericson, Pastor of the Bolton Congregational Church UCC and Director of the “Associates in Christian Education” program of Hartford Seminary and the Connecticut Conference of the UCC. Monday, June 14 – Wednesday, June 16 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: $250, which includes $25 for course materials Click here for more information and to register: http://www.hartsem.edu/events/2010_Basics_of_Christian_Education.html