Honoring the legacy of Edward B. Brueggeman, S.J.

he Brueggeman Center was named in memory of Edward B. Brueggeman, S.J., former chairman of Xavier University’s Department of Theology and a leading figure in the Midwest Tfor interfaith cooperation. Brueggeman committed much of his life to promoting greater understanding among religious groups. He founded and co-hosted the local religious television program “Dialogue,” which ran for more than 20 years. This popular show brought together leaders of many faiths to exchange views in an atmosphere of respect and trust. The Brueggeman Center aims to build upon the broad ecumenical and interreligious outreach that typified both Brueggeman’s spirituality and his career. the edward b. brueggeman center for dialogue aims to start important conversations on campus and in the community. INTRODUCTION

Foreword

he Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue began in 2002, over lunch in the office of Xavier University President Michael J. Graham, S.J. I had only been at Xavier for Ttwo years, as the Besl Family Chair in Ethics/Religion and Society, when he asked me to develop a new center at Xavier. Aware of my background in comparative philosophy of religions and comparative values systems, Fr. Graham asked that I expand the Brueggeman Center for Interfaith Dialogue, a small center within the theology department directed by Joe Bracken, S.J. I researched the center and the university resources dedicated to it and spoke with people from around Cincinnati and across the country. In the spring of 2002, I made a proposal to Fr. Graham to rename the center the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue and to broaden its mission beyond interfaith dialogue to include other academic disciplines, the business community, government and civil society in its work. I also wanted its mission to focus on global issues. The concept was to create a center that would focus on creating cross-sectoral dialogues in programs, conferences, publications and projects that would address global issues from a wide range of perspectives. My hope was that the Brueggeman Center could become a portal to the world for Xavier, by bringing experts from around the world to campus and by sending students all over the world to engage in research and service. Our mission was to help develop a new global consciousness at Xavier—politically, economically, culturally but above all religiously and morally. Fr. Graham accepted the proposal without revision, and we began an amazing journey of discovery and engagement here at Xavier and around the world.

James P. Buchanan, PhD Founding Executive Director “The Center brings

“It is an absolute obligation of schools and universities together the best to promote understanding of the current events, not only among their students, but also among minds from diverse members of the larger community. This is where the Brueggeman Center fulfills its unique mission of stimulating awareness of the most vital issues of our backgrounds. We time.” learn so much from maria czyzyk-krzeska | university of cincinnati each other.” barbara glueck | american jewish committee

““The Center has become “The Brueggeman Center enriches Cincinnati with its speakers. It insists upon dialogue—talking and thinking through one of the intellectual matters of importance and bringing them into our daily lives in Cincinnati. The Center is a tonic against intellectual slumber, oases of hope.” an energy boost from the mundane.” joe dehner | foreign policy leadership council david tracy | the university of chicago

“Every great university needs a center like the Brueggeman Center—a place where the great issues of our time are rigorously debated for the benefit of our society.” mitchel d. livingston | university of cincinnati INTRODUCTION

ere at Xavier University, we take our mission very seriously—to form students intellectually, morally and spiritually, with rigor and compassion, toward lives Hof solidarity, service and success. And the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue has been, since its inception, instrumental in uncountable ways in helping us realize our Jesuit Catholic mission. Over the last many years, the Brueggeman Center has established a premier reputation locally for privileged conversations by thoughtful people on global issues. The many Town Hall Meetings it has sponsored have brought together University citizens, members of all our region’s communities and significant national and international figures to puzzle out together how we might best proceed with issues of deep importance to us all. The Center has engaged our students in a very special way, broadening their horizons through its many programs, especially the Winter-Cohen Brueggeman Fellows Program. And the faith perspective—always implicit and often explicit— in Brueggeman Center programming ensures that this “The Brueggeman Center enriches important angle of vision is present in our meaningful Cincinnati with its speakers. It insists upon conversations concerning issues that shape our world. dialogue—talking and thinking through Perhaps this particular contribution of the Brueggeman matters of importance and bringing them Center pleases me the most. Certainly, this steady emphasis into our daily lives in Cincinnati. The in the work with the Brueggeman Center has positioned Center is a tonic against intellectual slumber, it as the region’s pre-eminent place for interreligious an energy boost from the mundane.” discourse, thought and action. We are a vastly better Jesuit joe dehner | foreign policy leadership council and Catholic university as a result of all the Center’s good work. Please join me in congratulating Brueggeman Center Director James Buchanan on a momentous initial decade for this important work.

Michael J. Graham, S.J. President, Xavier University the brueggeman center promotes meaningful dialogue in a world that is both increasingly connected and more isolated than ever. INTRODUCTION

Risk and Transformation: What ever happened to dialogue?

hat passes for dialogue in the mass media is too often ideologically closed and politically volatile punditry. At the same time, communication has become Wunidirectional: the mass media speaks at us, not with us. The Internet and social networks have created new spaces for us to narrate our lives in minute detail. Emails are dashed off with thoughtless abandon. Students walk around campus with eyes focused on their latest text message rather than their fellow students. In cyberspace, place disappears, time compresses, change accelerates and the things that connect us are less about culture and tradition than technology and consumption. Authentic dialogue can only happen if the participants are willing to risk their presuppositions. Authentic dialogue must also have the potential to transform. Providing spaces where we can dare to take risks and be transformed is critical. Universities often provide that space. The Brueggeman Center is a place within that larger space where dialogue is not only encouraged but taught, where dialogue is the first and foremost expectation. Every Brueggeman Center project begins and ends in dialogue. For this reason we never do a project alone. At the same time our institutions (social, business, We develop projects with our partners and work together government and educational) encourage isolation through to implement them and share in their success. specialization and structures that foster competition rather Our projects use dialogue to build “social capital”—the than cooperation. That our communities are disintegrating human-to-human engagement that forges the civic bonds should not surprise us. Communities must be grounded upon which our communities are built. Along the way we in open, honest, trustworthy communication. And just learn things about others but also about ourselves. Only as information is not knowledge (much less wisdom), through dialogue will we find the commitment and ways the communication of our age is not dialogue. to work together toward common goods. monks from the drepung gomang monastic college in mundgod, india, bless a sand mandala they prepared on campus. PROGRAMS

Brueggeman Center Programming

n keeping with its mission, the Brueggeman Center has developed a diverse range of programs to encourage dialogue in a variety of different spheres. Its interfaith symposiums, human rights Ipresentations, sustainability workshops, political debates, gender and diversity forums, and film screenings are designed to foster the discussions that help people understand each other and the world, and to search for solutions to the critical problems of our time. The events are participatory, timely and provocative. They offer an opportunity to discuss important topics in order to enlighten, challenge and inspire the community. “In the religion of art, there are no creeds. There is but one faith— the service of beauty. Art is the solvent of prejudices.”

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the artistic expressions of faith series takes participants to sacred places around cincinnati, like the isaac m. wise temple. PROGRAMS

artistic expressions of faith of expressions artistic in which different faiths ways Artistic explores Expressions in art.symbolize the sacred The series experts features as discussing what is unique about each tradition as well in common. The series exhibits what the traditions have most artistic at some of the region’s expressions profound important and places of worship. museums this series ensued from of the discussions that have Many understanding, helped people to be more more have says celebratory tolerant, more about different faiths,” “And art is longtime director. the series’ Schwartz, Abby for getting there.” such a great vehicle The Artistic series of Faith Expressions years. occurs every two “ Christians, Jews and Muslims.Christians, Jews explored the common ideals between the common ideals between explored discussion on Sept. 11, 2003, thatdiscussion on Sept. head-on, beginning with a Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement Dialogue Interfaith fundamentalism conference fundamentalism Since Sept. 11, a great focused deal of attention has been is a global on Islamic fundamentalism. But extremism socioeconomic national, ethnic, phenomenon that crosses and religious boundaries. It is clear that religious fundamentalism is on the rise in the United States and shape their message and their Fundamentalists abroad. strategies the impact to fit the times and increasingly all of this in mind, With national and political landscape. clear that fundamentalism raises ethical, theological and it’s contend. must political questions with which everyone expertsThe Brueggeman Center brought seven to Xavier to discuss religious extremism on Oct. 31, 2004. been more important.been more terrorist After the America Sept. 11, 2001, attacks of had critical and the questions to ask of itself these issues The Center tackled world. PROGRAMS at founded The Brueggeman was Center interfaitha time when had never dialogue the brueggeman center has brought in people like dr. paul farmer to start discussions about human rights and health care in the developing world. PROGRAMS Human Rights

In a world still fraught with dictatorship, civil war and poverty, the Brueggeman Center is committed PROGRAMS to promoting and protecting human rights. To do so, it invites internationally renowned speakers to discuss their work on the frontlines of advancing human rights. People like Dr. Paul Farmer and Mohini Giri, who go to great lengths to defend the inalienable rights of the world’s marginalized poor.

dr. paul farmer mohini giri Dr. Paul Farmer works to bring transformative health Mohini Giri, whose own mother was widowed when care to the developing world. He co-founded Partners in Giri was 9, founded the War Widows Association and Health, an organization that brings the benefits of modern the Guild of Service to help the thousands of widows medical science to the poorest and sickest communities. in India left to fend for themselves at the end of the Farmer is internationally known for his innovations in Indo-Pakistani War in 1971. Giri is the daughter-in-law community-based health care models. He is chair of of the late Shri V. V. Giri, former president of India. the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Proficient in nine languages, Giri is a Nobel Peace Prize at Harvard Medical School, and a winner of several nominee and has received many awards, including the humanitarian awards. Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award. She is the author of Farmer was a featured panelist at the Town Hall Meeting, Emancipation and Empowerment of Women. “HIV/AIDS and Globalization,” on April 22, 2007. Giri came to Xavier on Nov. 17, 2010, to discuss the stigma widows face in India, where in traditional Hindu society they are abandoned by their families and impoverished by a system that fails to recognize their existence. brueggeman center director james buchanan (right) greets robert f. kennedy jr. at xavier. PROGRAMS Environment and Sustainability

In an age of diminishing natural resources, climate change and rising pollution, few global issues are PROGRAMS as urgent as the environment and sustainability. The world is changing so fast that it’s important to keep abreast of the latest alternative Soil Not Oil: energy research and the most pressing Food Security in Times of Climate Change ETHICS/RELIGION AND SOCIETY LECTURE SERIES environmental threats. The Brueggeman Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva is a physicist, author and environmental activist from India. She has worked for changes in agricultural and food production systems, calling for greater protection of indigenous rights to biodiversity, Center addresses these issues by bringing particularly for seeds of food crops. wednesday, oct. 28 7:00 p.m. Schiff Family Conference Center in speakers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cintas Center • Xavier University Free and open to the public and Vandana Shiva.

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AND XAVIER UNIVERSITY’S WOMEN’S CENTER robert f. kennedy jr. vandana shiva Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reputation as a resolute defender Vandana Shiva is a physicist, author and environmental of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal activist from India. She has worked for changes in actions. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s agricultural and food production systems, calling for “Heroes for the Planet.” Kennedy serves as senior attorney greater protection of indigenous rights to biodiversity, for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief particularly for seeds of food crops. She also has played an prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and important role in the eco-feminist movement, calling for president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a clinical greater participation of women in agriculture as a means professor and supervising attorney at Pace University to achieve sustainability. Among her books are Biopiracy: School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and was the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997); Stolen Harvest: co-host of “Ring of Fire” on Air America Radio. Earlier The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; and Manifestos on in his career, he served as assistant district attorney in New the Future of Food and Seed (2007). York City. Among Kennedy’s published books are The Shiva delivered a speech, “Soil Not Oil: Food Security in Times New York Times best-seller Crimes Against Nature (2004); of Climate Change,” at Xavier on Oct. 28, 2009, and was a The Riverkeepers (1997); and Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.: A panelist at the Town Hall Meeting “Globalization and Food Biography (1977). Security.” Kennedy presented a lecture titled “Our Environmental Destiny” at Xavier on Oct. 2, 2008. china is both a rising superpower and an ancient country. how it responds to globalization will have international impacts. PROGRAMS Politics, Foreign Policy and Civil Society

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learn Invisible Children: The more entrenched in a war in Afghanistan March 9 Story of Child Soldiers 7:30 p.m. In 2003, three young American filmmakers traveled to Africa join us and discovered a tragedy that disturbed and inspired them— March 9, 7:30 p.m. the 24-year-long war in Uganda that employs children as both Duff Banquet Center

weapons and victims. More than 66,000 children have been in the Cintas Center and preparing to invade Iraq. In the abducted and converted into soldiers. Many others have been Xavier University abused and violated by the Lord’s Resistance Army, and Cincinnati millions more have been displaced due to the violence. One Free and open to the public. such child soldier, originally chronicled in the documentary For more information, please Invisible Children, Boni, is speaking of his experiences of call 610-348-4590 or e-mail

war and rehabilitation. He is accompanied by staff from the [email protected]. intervening years, global politics organization Invisible Children, which seeks to bring to our attention the stories of those affected by the longest running war in Africa.

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The Edward B. Brueggeman have grown no less tumultuous. Center for Dialogue The Brueggeman Center continues to foster dialogue on campus that challenges our leaders, scrutinizes accepted paradigms and searches for the most equitable way forward in a volatile world.

joseph wilson ‘china in a global context: transformations and traditions’ In 2002, the CIA sent Ambassador Joseph Wilson to With its accelerating economy and increased political Niger to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was clout, there is little question that China is a rising seeking to buy yellowcake uranium to advance Iraq’s superpower. But how will China interact with and impact nuclear program. Wilson reported back to Washington a globalizing world? The Brueggeman Center hosted a that the claims were groundless. But after hearing three-day national conference to address that question. President George W. Bush repeat the accusation in his This multidisciplinary faculty development workshop 2003 State of the Union address, Wilson expressed his was designed to help university instructors infuse content dissent in an op-ed piece in The New York Times. The on Chinese culture into their undergraduate humanities subsequent revelation in the press by columnist Robert and social science courses. Activities began with a town Novak that Wilson’s wife—Valerie Plame—was a covert hall-style meeting, then the workshop opened with CIA operative sparked an intense legal and political row. two sessions examining the phenomenal dynamism of Wilson, a foreign policy expert with decades of experience in contemporary China, followed by sessions addressing the international politics, spoke at Xavier on Dec. 5, 2005. relevance of China’s diverse historical experiences and its cultural traditions. The Brueggeman Center partnered with the East-West Center, Hawaii, to host this conference on China, April 3-5, 2008. the brueggeman center is dedicated to the idea that meaningful dialogue entails the participation of diverse voices. PROGRAMS Gender and Diversity

With dialogue as its foundation, the Brueggeman Center is committed to seeking a diversity of PROGRAMS opinions. For too long the world’s important issues have been discussed among men in patriarchal societies. Haleh Esfandiari and Nandini Gunewardena are just two examples of women who would not stay silent. They came to Xavier to offer their extraordinary insights on the world.

haleh esfandiari nandini gunewardena Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari is the Nandini Gunewardena is a sociocultural anthropologist founding director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s in the international development studies department Middle East Program. She is the former deputy secretary at UCLA. The Brueggeman Center brought her to general of the Women’s Organization of Iran, has taught at Xavier to discuss the food, water and oil crises, and Princeton University and has worked as a journalist in Iran their implications on women around the world. She has and the United States. Esfandiari was detained in solitary been engaged in hands-on strategies to address women’s confinement in Iran’s Evin Prison for more than 110 days poverty, reproductive health and nutrition, and economic in 2007. The Brueggeman Center brought her to campus empowerment in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. to tell the story behind her book, My Prison, My Home: Her work links cultural gender ideologies to material One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran. With its conditions as evidenced in social institutions and everyday unpredictable leadership, uncertain nuclear ambitions and practices. She teaches applied anthropology courses on its involvement in the Iraq war, Iran presents one of gender and development, gender and poverty, and global America’s most difficult foreign policy challenges. poverty issues. Cosponsored by the Foreign Policy Leadership Council, Gunewardena delivered a talk at Xavier titled “Global Crises, Esfandiari came to Xavier on Jan. 19, 2010, to speak about her Translocal Uncertainties: Women’s Survival, the Myth of Scarcity detainment in Iran. and Natural Resources” on Nov. 17, 2008. when the brueggeman center invited tibetan monks to create a sand mandala at xavier in 2007, the result wasn’t just a work of art, it was a campus-wide learning opportunity. PROGRAMS Films and Other Events

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Engagement, Xavier University The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Edward B. Brueggeman Cincinnati Xavier University discussion in the audience. African Students Association, Center for D Xavier University ialogue International Student Services, Free and open to the public. Xavier University Center for International Education, For more information, please Xavier University call 513-745-3922.

a mandala on campus ‘what are we doing here?’ In 2007, half a dozen monks traveled to Xavier from Just one of many provocative films shown on campus the Drepung Gomang Monastic College in Mundgod, to generate discussion, “What Are We Doing Here?” India. The College, which was founded near Lhasa in explores why aid to Africa over the last five decades has 1416, moved to India following the Chinese invasion of been largely ineffective and often harmful. The film Tibet in 1959. The monks spent five days beneath a live tells the story of three university students who travel webcam, creating an intricate mandala from colored sand. across Africa in an attempt to understand one of the People from 21 states and 10 countries, including their great problems of our time: the failure to end poverty. home monastery, logged in to watch. During the closing A discussion with producer Tim Klein followed the ceremony, in accordance to tradition, the work of art was screening. swept away and in a ceremonial procession carried to the The Brueggeman Center screened “What are We Doing Here” Ohio River as a way of returning it to the Earth. on Feb. 23, 2011. The monks created their sand mandala at Xavier from April 10-14, 2007. the brueggeman center’s town hall meetings draw a well-rounded audience, from students to community members, to xavier president michael j. graham, s.j. PROGRAMS Town Hall Meetings on Globalization

One of the Brueggeman Center’s signature programs is the Town Hall Meeting. Each spring PROGRAMS the community is drawn together for an expert-led dialogue on the

CHINA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRADITIONS : April vital issues and impacts 3-5 Xavier Univ This multidisciplinary faculty development ersity Thursday, April 3 workshop is designed to help college and Afternoon Participants arrive and university in register for the conference structors infuse content on 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Town Hall Meeting Chinese culture into their undergraduate China and Globalization: Challenges and humanities and social science courses. Friday, April 4 Opportunities of globalization. These 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Elizabeth Economy Activities begin with a town hall-style “China’s Environmental Challenge” meeting, then the workshop opens with 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m.-3:45p.m. two sessions examining the phenomenal Oded Shenkar “The Rising Chinese dynamism of contemporary China, followed Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy” by sessions addressing the relevance of 7:00 p.m. Dinner

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Oded Shenkar Ford Motor Co. Chair in Global Roger T. Ames Business Management Professor of Philosophy Elizabeth Econom y Fisher College of Business University of Hawaii C.V. Starr Senior Fellow David E. Mungello The Ohio State Univ Editor of ersity Philosophy and Director of Asia Studies Professor of History Peter Hershock Oded Shenkar has taught at the East & West Council on Foreign Relations Baylor University Coordinator of the Asian James Buchanan Chin ese University of Hong Kong, Roger Ames’ publications include Elizabeth Economy’s most recent David Mungello founded the Studies Development Director for the the University of International translations of Chinese classics book, The River Runs Black Sino-Western Cultural Relations Program Edward B. Brueggeman Business and Economics, and including , won East-W Sun-tzu: The Art of the 2005 International Journal in 1979. His publi est Center Center for Dialogue Hong Kong University of Science Warfare; Convention on Asia Scholars cations The Confucian Analects; include Leibniz and Confucianism: Peter Hershock’s primary research James Buchanan studied and Technology, among others. and many others. He has also Award for best social sciences the Search for Accord; Curious focuses on th comparative religions and ethics He has been r authored numerous interpretative book. Her writings appear often e relevance of Asian ecognized as the Land: Jesuit Accommodation and philosophical perspectives in at Yale University and the leading researcher in Chinese studies of Chinese philosophy in publi the Origins of Sinology; Forgotten hope that we might identify areas of cations such as addressing contemporary issues. University of Chicago. He also management by and culture. His most recent Aff Foreign The Journal o airs, The New Christians of His books include: Business Research f eff York Times, The Hangzhou; Great Chan Buddhism, studied an an orts include articles promoting Washington Post Encounter o Buddhism in the Public Sphere: d taught in Paris, of the top 30 scholarsd ninam interna-ed one and the f China and the W Moscow, Beijing and Hong a conversation between Am International Herald T 1500-1800; est Reorienting Global Interdepen- tional strategy by the erican ribune. and Spirit and the Kong. He has lectured worldwide pragmatism and Confucianism. regularly con She Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785 dence International ManagementJournal of sults for the U.S. and Changing Education: and published widely on com- government and corporations on Many o . Leadership, Innovation and . f his works have been parative ethics and global ethi- Chinese environmental issues. translated into Chinese. Development in a Globalizing cal issues. His writings include Asia Pacific. Changing Nature’ s Course the forthcoming and Wager’s into the Abyss: Rethinking Moral Responsibility in a Global Context .

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‘islam and globalization’ ‘the challenge ahead: in search of a new energy future’ karen armstrong, dr. b.s. foad, farooq kathwari and ray anderson, christopher flavin, kevin leahy, david orr jerry leach This Town Hall Meeting brought together the president Karen Armstrong, one of the most influential writers of World Watch Institute, the CEO of Interface, Inc., on religion, joined a panel representing the local Islamic a scientist from Duke Energy and one of the premier community, the global business community and the world environmental writers to engage the audience in thinking of politics to discuss Islam and globalization. about our global energy crisis and future. The Town Hall Meeting held on April 25, 2006, was one of a This Town Hall Meeting, like all of them, drew some 800 people number of events in which the Brueggeman Center worked with to the Cintas Center to engage with the speakers and each other, the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati to celebrate their 10th April 6, 2009. anniversary. jennifer komos spent her 2008 brueggeman Fellowship in kenya, working on issues of education and empowerment of women. STUDENT DEVELOPMENT The Winter-Cohen Family Brueggeman Fellows Program

he Winter-Cohen Family Fellows Program at the Brueggeman Center offers up to 10 students each year the chance to combine a year of intensive independent study with Tan international immersion experience. The program is highly competitive and draws upon Xavier’s most accomplished graduate and undergraduate students from all three colleges and a wide range of disciplines. FELLOWS The Fellows program has two goals. First is the research, through which we hope students will learn about their chosen topics from a global perspective. Second is to help students develop a new level of self-confidence by challenging them to conceive, plan and complete a program that begins with a yearlong independent study, followed by an immersion trip, which they take alone, steve plachinski spent his fellowship exploring interreligious to engage in research and service. They must plan every dialogue aspect of this trip themselves; create the network of people in indonesia. and institutions with which they will interact, plan all the travel and housing details and at some point step off a the brueggeman fellows plane and manage an intense set of challenges including language, food, illness, transportation, loneliness and • By 2011, the program • Many Fellows have culture shock in some of the most difficult places on earth. has sent students to over published small books 50 different countries to about their experiences. Because the group is chosen from Xavier’s three colleges, engage in research and • Fellows have gone on to they spend an intensive year engaged in interdisciplinary service. learning. They become each other’s teachers. graduate school, to receive • Study topics range from Fulbright and Truman The program is high risk and high reward. The Center’s interfaith dialogue to Fellowships, go to Law and hope is that the Fellows program will offer personal, microfinance, the Medical School and to work intellectual, moral and spiritual self-discovery and growth environment, cultural in NGOs. that will change their lives in ways we cannot imagine. identity, human rights, • As the students will attest, They take the risks, and they are transformed. health care, refugees the program transforms and internally displaced their lives in ways big and The Brueggeman Fellows Program is funded by the Ralph I. and people, the World Trade small. Julia Winter Cohen Memorial Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Organization, graffiti, Foundation. With special gratitude to Susan Winter Ward and cross-cultural music and • To learn more about Marilyn Winter-Tamkin. more. all of the Fellows, go to www.brueggemanfellows.org. when brandon sipes visited the taizé monastery in france, he found a place of worship that welcomed people of all faiths.

Brandon Sipes brueggeman fellow 2007 In the summer of 2007, Brandon Sipes traveled across Northern In Sarajevo, I stayed at the Franciscan monastery of Ivo Ireland, Croatia, Bosnia and France studying religious violence Markovic. I had great interviews there, and great fun and reconciliation. In the midst of these countries’ fractious attempting the language with cab drivers. I still remember histories, he found the hope of redemption. a few of the phrases I butchered. Da li govorite engleski “The historical conflicts in Northern Ireland, Croatia and means ‘Do you speak English?’ I used that one often. Bosnia have deep religious dimensions. Protestants and “The fellowship helped me clarify exactly what I Catholics have fought for centuries in Ireland, and the wanted to be doing. I knew I wanted to go into social ethnic strife of the Balkan War divided Muslims and justice work. Through my fellowship, I realized I wanted Christians. In France, the Taizé Monastery provides a to be working with those in the midst of religious sanctuary to people from all faiths. conflicts. This is exactly where I’ve ended up. I am a “People hosted me in their homes or monasteries. conflict mediator and facilitator. I have an ongoing project I stayed only one night in a hotel when I wasn’t able to in Israel-Palestine, a new project developing with an arts connect with my host in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In Northern center in Lahore, Pakistan, and have several projects here Ireland, I stayed with a guy who is now a dear friend. in Ohio.” “The unique international experiences the Center affords student Brueggeman Fellows are forging the leaders of tomorrow.”

elizabeth groppe | associate professor of theology | xavier university Katy Baldwin brueggeman fellow 2008 In the summer of 2008, Nepal was emerging as a new democracy after an 11-year Maoist uprising dethroned the world’s last Hindu monarchy. Katy Baldwin traveled to Kathmandu to investigate. FELLOWS “On my second day, the King was forced out of the royal palace. I had a front-row seat to watch the country embrace its new democracy. As I trekked in the Himalayas and cycled through the rice paddies of the Terai, I conducted interviews with politicians, journalists and anyone who would share their stories. I caught mangoes falling heavy and ripe from the trees. I trudged through monsoon showers to language lessons and played hangman with students so enthusiastic about their education that one boy walked for two hours to get to school. when nepal transitioned from monarchy to “My fellowship taught me to be independent, democracy, katy baldwin had a front-row seat. diplomatic and confident. But I also learned to be vulnerable, open and trusting. I was overwhelmed by hospitality and kindness. People explained giddily that my name means ‘girl’ in Nepali. They taught me better “Being a Brueggeman Fellow techniques for eating dal bhat (lentils and rice) with my hands. forever ruined me—ruined “Nepal is a democracy started from scratch. From the outside, it looked chaotic and dangerous. Protests me for traveling as a tourist, were frequent and tires burned in the street. I learned that ruined me for settling for the democracies everywhere are subject to power struggles, partisanship and other pitfalls. A democracy of any age corporate ladder, ruined me relies on the resilience and commitment of the people. “I returned to the United States a better citizen. I for looking at the world as a voted in my first presidential election that fall, just as the Nepali Constituent Assembly did the same.” bystander.”

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Brenda Ratemo brueggeman fellow 2009 In the summer of 2009, Brenda Ratemo returned to her native Kenya to gather firsthand information on a health care system she one day hopes to improve. “Even though I grew up in Kenya, I was given new eyes brenda ratemo learned about kenya’s during my fellowship there, working with the Ministry of health care system by observing it. Health, the National Hospital Insurance Fund and other agencies to assess the public health care system. Kenya has a resource-poor and budget-tight health care system, like many countries. But I met community members who are establishing group finance schemes with their “My experiences as a meager earnings to fund local health facilities. Community organization is a powerful tool in addressing some of Brueggeman Fellow have our biggest problems, one that is often overlooked. I am colored my decisions, currently studying to be a doctor at Dartmouth Medical School. I will return to Kenya when I’m finished. occupations and the way “One day during my fellowship I visited a district hospital. It was around 7:30 a.m. and I had come to I live my life. Now, as a interview a doctor who worked in the pediatrics section. There was a line of about 50 mothers waiting to see her. mother, I hope to share Some had been there as early as cockcrow, 4:00 a.m. my experiences in Kibera Others had returned who had not received help the previous day. The only doctor in the entire ward took with my daughter.” a couple of minutes to talk to me in the midst of her morning. I asked her if she felt overworked. ‘If I do not do katie cole nagavi | kenya | 2006 | education in kibera slum it,’ she said simply, ‘who will?’”

Elisabeth Patterson brueggeman fellow 2010 In the summer of 2010, Elisabeth Patterson traveled to Bogota, Colombia, to study the health disparities faced by people who have fled the country’s continuous fighting. “My project focused on the health issues of Colombians who have been internally displaced by ongoing conflict. FELLOWS In addition to lacking health care, displaced people also elisabeth patterson lived among colombians suffer from water shortages, homelessness and racism when displaced by they arrive in the already crowded cities, which lack the continuous conflict. infrastructure and jobs to support them. “I knew a woman who lived with her grandson in the barrios at the city’s edge. They had attended some human rights programs I helped initiate. I saw her one afternoon, and she looked sick. As a nursing student, I “Perhaps the most important was the closest health professional for several miles. Her thing that I gained from my symptoms pointed toward an intestinal pathogen from drinking unclean water. She had visited a doctor when the Brueggeman Fellowship was pain became unbearable and she lost her appetite. But she couldn’t afford the medication. Nor could she take time the desire to explore, not off work for follow-up appointments. And she couldn’t afford a diet that would restore her strength. She also had just geographically, but also to feed her grandson. intellectually and socially. “I felt helpless. Colombia’s conflict had uprooted this woman from her home and denied her access to For that reason I joined the affordable health care and employment opportunities. Far too many societies—and not just South American ones— Peace Corps.” develop social programs that fail to reach those who truly need them. I plan to use my nursing degree to promote michael westendorp | turkey | 2009 | christianity in turkey advocacy and true dialogue between communities and the NGOs attempting to help them.”

The Brueggeman Moment he initial experience of stepping off a plane in a foreign country realizing they’re on their own is so transformative that Fellows have begun Tto call it their “Brueggeman Moment.” It’s when they ask themselves, “What have I gotten myself into?”

“I was dropped off as the only English speaker in Loma Linda. Why did I ever think it was a good idea to travel by myself in a developing country where I hardly speak the language? My driver, the same one who dropped me off, was quite surprised to find tears streaming down my face a month later when I left.”

jennifer sands guatemala | 2009 | fair trade coffee “I was forever

“On a Saturday night in Buenos Aires, an ATM ate my changed by the debit card. I had no access to money for the weekend. Without hesitating, one of my Argentine hosts gave kindness I received me enough money for a night at a hotel and something to eat. I had been traveling with him to small German from those I met in “The experience villages in rural Argentina, and was fascinated by his culture. His people had preserved their German Tangier, Amman crystallized my new language despite two massive emigrations. In that moment, however, I realized it was the relationship we and Damascus.” determination to had forged together that mattered most.” ashley bonnell syria, morocco and jordan | 2010 | iraq war refugees use my graduate matt bigelow argentina | 2006 | german immigration to argentina before wwii studies in virology to design affordable, “When I arrived, I was overwhelmed with the vast squatter settlements. Behind every effective diagnostics squatter settlement is an organized system of oppression. Behind each deteriorating for resource-poor school building is a group of people who are denying equal access to education. Nothing settings.” ever just ‘is.’ Reality is not coincidence, it is constructed.”

ann fiegen peru | 2010 | new approaches to infectious disease bianca callejas control south africa | 2009 | politics, culture and community “I landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport at midnight, waited two hours to get through “Being a Fellow was security and then haggled for a van ride into the city together with Italian newlyweds and about finding a an elderly Austrian couple. I was dropped off last at 3:00 a.m., barely awake after a day of humble confidence travel. I walked into my hostel to settle in for the hottest, loudest and least restful night of in myself that I never ‘sleep’ I’d ever had. I didn’t speak Turkish, so I had no idea where the hostel manager had knew existed.” put my luggage, how long my reservation at the hostel went or how much they had katie cole nagavi charged my credit card. I wondered what I kenya | 2006 | education in kibera slum had gotten myself into.”

christian lowry germany and turkey | 2007 | sociopolitical consequences of “My auto rickshaw pulled up to the beautiful muslim integration into western europe organic farm in northern India where I would FELLOWS spend the next six weeks. I walked around but could not find my way. Luckily, I ran into a Hindi-speaking worker who directed me to “By the time I had Jeet Pal, who managed all the international visitors. He welcomed me, sat me on the to leave, I wanted kitchen floor, and served me a huge plate of chickpeas, pumpkin, rice and chapatti. Jeet Pal nothing more than continued to look after me and always shared ripe mangoes with me.” to stay.”

jennifer komos margaret weidner kenya | 2008 | education and empowerment of women india | 2010 | water

“In Yogyakarta, near the end of my trip, I visited a small Buddhist temple for a one-hour sitting meditation session. After the session, I talked with the 10 or so locals in attendance. I was surprised to learn that many of them were Muslims or Christians and did not consider themselves only Buddhists. They maintained their identity as Muslims and Christians, while also practicing meditation in a Buddhist temple. They were, in a sense, multi-religious. I realized that religion and religious identity are not rigid, exclusive or static. They can be very fluid and accommodating. My personal experience of religion doesn’t clearly fit any common definition, and it was amazing to see that the same was true for people halfway across the globe.”

steve plachinski indonesia | 2007 | interreligious dialogue in yogyakarta yaffa eliach, rabbi abie ingber, james buchanan and william madges share an audience with pope john paul ii on oct. 26, 2004. EXHIBIT A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People

he Blessing project began as most things do in the Brueggeman Center—with a conversation. This one involved Yaffa Eliach, who was a visiting professor in the Brueggeman Center in T2004; William Madges, then chair of Xavier’s Department of Theology; Rabbi Abie Ingber, then Director of Hillel Jewish Student Center for Greater Cincinnati; and James Buchanan, who had just become the Brueggeman Center’s director. Eliach suggested that there was an important interfaith story about Pope John Paul II, who had transformed the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people, that needed to be told. She suggested that the group build an exhibit to tell that story. With Xavier and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati more than 70,000 behind them, in October 2004, Madges, Ingber, Eliach prayers have been and Buchanan traveled to Rome for an audience with delivered to the Pope John Paul II. They asked for his blessing for the western wall. project, and he bestowed it. The promise was that the exhibit would open on May 18, 2005, which would have been the Holy Father’s 80th birthday. Unfortunately, the “The Center plays a critical A BLESSING Pope wouldn’t live to see its unveiling. role in promoting basic, Ingber, Madges and Buchanan universal human values had no experience whatsoever in building exhibitions, and and rights, which are close they had four months to do it. When Buchanan enlisted to the hearts of people of the support of local museum curators and explained the all faiths, and in serving project’s timeframe, they told the common good.” him it was not possible to open in four months. But while maria czyzyk-krzeska | university of cincinnati working their regular jobs and spending long hours at the Brueggeman Center every evening, Madges, Ingber and Buchanan somehow managed to finish in time for what was one of the most amazing gatherings of the Catholic and Jewish communities in the history of Cincinnati on May 18, 2005. Over 1 million visitors since opening about the exhibit: as of 2011 • A 2,300-square-foot • Numerous video stations multimedia exhibition. with interviews of people • Artifacts from more than ranging from the Pope’s 20 lenders. childhood friends to church leaders, including • The exhibit traveled the exclusive interviews with United State for over 8 Jerzy Kluger. years in 18 venues from New York to Los • Plans are in the works to Angeles, from Buffalo to either take the current Houston. Building exhibit or build a second interfaith community, one to tour Europe. hat began as a story about his Papacy friend, thus transforming the exhibit into a story that is expanded into one that encompassed not just about the Pope but potentially a story for each of his entire life—from his childhood in us. Wadowice, Poland, to the horrors of his The creation and success of the exhibit has been a Wexperience during WWII and the Holocaust, to his life watershed moment in the transforming relationship as a young priest in Krakow, and then to his remarkable between Xavier University, the Catholic community and interfaith work as Pope. More than a historical exhibit, Cincinnati’s Jewish community. The Brueggeman Center A Blessing to One Another was designed to immerse the has been responsible for the management of the exhibit visitor into a multimedia world spanning Wadowice in the since it opened in 2005. The exhibit’s creators see it as a 1920s to the Vatican of today. The exhibit commemorates, ministry to transform interfaith relations wherever it goes. educates and inspires. It not only tells the “big” story of the life of the Pope but also the “smaller” story of his For more information about the exhibit and to see a video, go to: amazing relationship with Jerzy Kluger, www.blessingexhibit.org. his childhood and lifelong Jewish

The Golden Rule: A common thread through all religions A BLESSING

Buddhism: Treat not Native Spirituality: Jainism: One should treat others in ways that you We are as much alive as all creatures in the world yourself would find hurtful. we keep the earth alive. as one would like to be THE BUDDHA, UDANA-VARGA 5.18 CHIEF DAN GEORGE treated. Baha’i Faith: Lay not on Sikhism: I am a stranger MAHAVIRA, SUTRAKRITANGA any soul a load that you to no one, and no one is Judaism: What is hateful would not wish to be laid a stranger to me. Indeed, to you, do not do to upon you, and desire not I am a friend to all. your neighbor. This is the for anyone the things that GURU GRANTH SAHIB, p.1299 whole Torah; all the rest you would not desire for Christianity: In is commentary. Go and yourself. everything, do to others as learn it. BAHA’U’LAH, GLEANINGS you would have them to do HILLEL, TALMUD, SHABBATH 31A Hinduism: This is the you, for this is the law and Taoism: Regard your sum of duty: Do not do the prophets. neighbor’s gain as your own to others what would JESUS, MATTHEW 7:12 gain and your neighbor’s cause pain if done to you. Confucianism: One loss as your own loss. LAO MAHABHARATA, 5:1517 word which sums up the TZU, T’AI SHANG KAN YING P’IEN 213-218 Islam: Not one of you basis of all good conduct… truly believes until you loving-kindness. Do not do Zoroastrianism: Do not wish for others what to others what you do not do unto others whatever is you wish for yourself. want done to yourself. injurious to yourself. THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, HADITH CONFUCIUS, ANALECTS 15.23 THE ROAD AHEAD birthplace of Pope John Paul II, Wadowice, Poland, to the concentration camp at Auschwitz and finally to work for The next five years two weeks restoring a Jewish cemetery in Poland. These cemeteries are the only remnant of the 3.3 million Jews who lived in Poland prior to the war. The plan is to run Four major areas for new programming are in this as a pilot once, then secure funding from national and development: international Jewish sources and create a national program. The Refugee and Displaced People Empowerment Program fundraising goal: xx million This student-developed and -run nonprofit business will sell arts and crafts on campus made by people currently living in refugee camps and displaced people situations from around the world. The plan is to run a pilot program at Xavier for a year or two and then take the business model to other universities around the country (particularly Jesuit schools).

The Abrahamic Center for Research, Dialogue and Community Engagement fundraising goal: xx million This will be nationally and internationally unique center headed by three endowed chairs, one from each of the Abrahamic traditions. It is the combination of research, dialogue and community engagement that will allow this new center to become a model of interfaith interaction. Global Directions fundraising goal: xx million One of the characteristics of globalization is the increasing speed with which the world changes. It has long been a dream of the Brueggeman Center to put itself in a posi- tion to help track not just what has happened but what is coming. We propose to convene a conference every two years to bring together top global experts from a variety of academic disciplines, business, government and the NGO world to look at the major trends. This would consist of a two-day discussion and produce a publication. Such a conference would not only be of great intellectual interest to the whole of the community but would allow Xavier and the community to explore ways of preparing for the changes that are inevitably on the way.

Living Memory fundraising goal: xx million Thiscome toproject the table: is manya spin-off profound, ofinspiring the Blessing Exhibit that will conversations have taken place around the takedinner a table group at the of brueggeman 10 Christians center. and 10 Jews first to the The Center

he Brueggeman Center occupies a peaceful 1920s Tudor-style, red-brick house on a shady edge of campus. The house includes offices, a seminar room, a lounge and office for the TFellows and two bedroom and office suites for visiting scholars and speakers. The seminar room doubles as a wonderful space for shared meals. These meals embody the Center’s spirit of dialogue. Before most major events, the Center hosts a meal at that table with the speakers and participants. There are only two rules: great food and one conversation in which everyone participates. These pre- event conversations can become so engrossing that speakers have trouble leaving them to reach their events on time. For many guests, these dinner conversations are the most memorable part of their visit to Xavier. “I’ve had the exciting and the challenging privilege of being part of the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue since its very beginnings. So I’ve been able to observe discussing critical issues How Do We Solve America’s how over the years, under the able leadership of James Addiction to Oil? Join our panel of experts as they examine energy alternatives The Edward B. Brueggeman in the face of the growing global demand for petroleum. Center for Dialogue Buchanan and with the support of Xavier and the panelists 3800 Victory Parkway Christopher Flavin is president of the Worldwatch Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 a Washington, D.C.-based research organization. Flavin is recognized as a leading source of information on key broader Cincinnati community, the Center has become environmental, social and economic trends. John Felmy is chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute and oversees the organization’s economic, statisti- better and better at what it does–bringing together cal and policy analysis. Felmy has more than 25-years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. Pat Murphy is executive director for the Community select groups of people who by talking with each other Sponsored by Solution, a non-profit organization in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Murphy’s main interest is in the techniques and strategies inspire other people to talk with each other about the for a steady reduction in per-capita use of fossil fuels. Feb. 13, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. kind of things that everybody wants to, and needs to, Schiff Family Conference Free and open to the public. Center at the Cintas Center For more information call The Edward B. Brueggeman 513 745-3922 or www.xavier.edu/dialogue Xavier University 513 621-2320. talk about… The Brueggeman Center has made a Center for Dialogue Cincinnati, Ohio difference in the lives of so many of us, and of our city, discussing critical issues and of our nation.” How Do We Solve America’s Addiction to Oil?

Join our panel of experts as they examine energy alternatives The Edward B. Brueggeman in the face of the growing global demand for petroleum. Center for Dialogue paul knitter | the paul tillich professor of theology, world religions and panelists 3800 Victory Parkway Christopher Flavin is president of the Worldwatch Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 culture | union theological seminary, new york city a Washington, D.C.-based research organization. Flavin is recognized as a leading source of information on key environmental, social and economic trends. John Felmy is chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute and oversees the organization’s economic, statisti- cal and policy analysis. Felmy has more than 25-years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. Pat Murphy is executive director for the Community Sponsored by Solution, a non-profit organization in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Murphy’s main interest is in the techniques and strategies for a steady reduction in per-capita use of fossil fuels.

Feb. 13, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. “The Brueggeman Center has been a wonderful partner, Schiff Family Conference Free and open to the public. Center at the Cintas Center For more information call The Edward B. Brueggeman 513 745-3922 or www.xavier.edu/dialogue “The CenterXavier University has513 621-2320. been bringing expertise, perspective, and intellectual as Center for Dialogue Cincinnati, Ohio well as financial capital to the table. Whether it is a willingness to host a meeting or an event or offering a leader and at the the expansive services of Xavier University to our humble endeavor, we would not have achieved the success we have with this series without the cherished table in bringing to partnership of the Edward B. Brueggeman Center.” the forefront and abby schwartz | former curator of education, taft museum of art addressing critical issues impacting our society, regionally and globally.” shakila t. ahmad | bridges for a just community “As our country rapidly moves to become an amalgam of different ethnicities and faiths in the 21st century, the Brueggeman Center’s work will assume even more significance in ensuring that we function as a exploring critical issues harmonious, peaceful society. ... We have received Reflecting Together: Recent Catholic-Jewish Controversies The Edward B. Brueggeman worthy support from the Brueggeman Center in A number of disturbing controversies have recently arisen Center for Dialogue between the Vatican and the Jewish people. These include the 3800 Victory Parkway reversion of the Good Friday Prayer to a pre-Vatican II form; Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 bringing community leaders together in speaking with rescinding the excommunication of the Lefevbre Bishops, including one Holocaust denier; the proposed canonization Sponsored by: of Pius XII; and statements concerning the situation in Gaza. The Office of the Hebrew Union one voice against bigotry toward Muslim Americans Join eugene fisher, former associate director of the President College-Jewish Xavier University Institute of Religion Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Office of Interfaith The Center for U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and rabbi gary Community Holocaust and greenebaum, U.S. director of interreligious affairs for the and affirming equal rights for our citizens of all faiths Engagement Humanity Education American Jewish Committee in charge of Catholic-Jewish Xavier University Office for relations, to discuss these issues and to help us work The Department of Ecumenical and through them together, as a community. Theology Interfaith Relations and ethnicities. In such efforts, it has displayed national Xavier University Archdiocese of Jewish Community Cincinnati April 21, 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Relations Council American Jewish Gallagher Student Center For more information, please of the Jewish Committee call 513-745-3922. leadership. Federation of Theater Cincinnati Xavier University The Edward B. Brueggeman Cincinnati www.xavier.edu/dialogue “Xavier University can be rightfully proud of the Center for Dialogue trail-blazing work done by the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue in our community over the last decade. We wish the Center every success and look forward exploring critical issues to a productive, cooperative relationship well into the Reflecting Together: Recent Catholic-Jewish Controversies The Edward B. Brueggeman future.” A number of disturbing controversies have recently arisen Center for Dialogue between the Vatican and the Jewish people. These include the 3800 Victory Parkway reversion of the Good Friday Prayer to a pre-Vatican II form; Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 rescinding the excommunication of the Lefevbre Bishops, including one Holocaust denier; the proposed canonization Sponsored by: of Pius XII; and statements concerning the situation in Gaza. The Office of the Hebrew Union inayat malik md | islamic center of greater cincinnati President College-Jewish Join eugene fisher, former associate director of the Xavier University Institute of Religion Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Office of Interfaith The Center for U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and rabbi gary Community Holocaust and greenebaum, U.S. director of interreligious affairs for the Engagement Humanity Education American Jewish Committee in charge of Catholic-Jewish Xavier University Office for relations, to discuss these issues and to help us work The Department of Ecumenical and through them together, as a community. Theology Interfaith Relations Xavier University Archdiocese of Jewish Community Cincinnati April 21, 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Relations Council American Jewish For more information, please of the Jewish Committee Gallagher Student Center call 513-745-3922. Federation of Theater ““The Cincinnati Center’s resources, mission and physical Xavier University The Edward B. Brueggeman Cincinnati www.xavier.edu/dialogue space Center for Dialogue add a tremendous amount of intellectual vitality to campus.” kathleen smythe | xavier university “The Brueggeman Center at Xavier University is one of the most dynamic institutions in our community. Since its inception, it has opened minds and broadened awareness of a myriad of important issues. The Center has played a unique role in bringing together diverse organizations, religious and academic institutions, businesses and individuals. Through its significant public programming and initiatives with students, the

exploring critical issues saveinstitution the date is an agent for change and challenges people The Tragedy of Darfur and Sudan: Stand Up: A Dialogue with Omer Ismail and Simon Deng A Voice from tothe Congo work for solutions to social issues.” Darfur and the Southern Sudan are among the most dev- The Edward B. Brueggeman astated areas on the planet. Join us for a conversation with Center for Dialogue Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. Simon Deng, a former Sudanese slave, and Omer Ismail, a 3800 Victory Parkway Cintas Center native of Darfur, to discuss what we can and should be doing Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 to address this inhuman situation.

Cosponsored by: omer ismail is the spokesperson for the Darfur Union and sarah l. weiss | the center for holocaust and humanity education cofounder of Darfur Peace and Development. He has lived Student Government The Youth Association Lecture Empowerment as a refugee in the United States since 1989. Series Network simon aban deng is a Sudanese refugee and a survivor of Greater Cincinnati Ethics/Religion and child slavery. Now an American citizen, he leads the fight Advocates for Darfur Society Program Coalition Xavier University against genocide in Sudan, speaking internationally and Critical Topics The Division of meeting with world leaders. Committee of the Mission and Identity Wise Temple Xavier University “The Brueggeman Center is a critical leader in the effort Free and open to the public. The National STAND–XU Feb. 18, 7:00 p.m. Underground Xavier University The James and Caroline For more information please Railroad Freedom The Center for call 513-745-3922. Center to forge new and better relationships between people, Holocaust and Duff Banquet Room American Jewish Humanity Education at the Cintas Center Committee Xavier University The Edward B. Brueggeman Cincinnati www.xavier.edu/dialogueand to identify real solutions to the complex challenges Center for Dialogue facing us as a community. I am in awe of everything that the Center has accomplished in just eight short years, and I wish for nothing but continued success as exploring critical issues savewe the date move together from strength to strength in the years The Tragedy of Darfur and Sudan: Stand Up: A Dialogue with Omer Ismail and Simon Deng A Voice from Darfur and the Southern Sudan are among the most dev- The Edward B. Brueggeman ahead.”the Congo astated areas on the planet. Join us for a conversation with Center for Dialogue Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. Simon Deng, a former Sudanese slave, and Omer Ismail, a 3800 Victory Parkway Cintas Center native of Darfur, to discuss what we can and should be doing Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4442 to address this inhuman situation.

Cosponsored by: omer ismail is the spokesperson for the Darfur Union and Student Government The Youth cofounder of Darfur Peace and Development. He has lived brian jaffee | the jewish foundation of cincinnati Association Lecture Empowerment as a refugee in the United States since 1989. Series Network simon aban deng is a Sudanese refugee and a survivor of Greater Cincinnati Ethics/Religion and Advocates for Darfur Society Program child slavery. Now an American citizen, he leads the fight Coalition Xavier University against genocide in Sudan, speaking internationally and Critical Topics The Division of meeting with world leaders. Committee of the Mission and Identity Wise Temple Xavier University The National STAND–XU Underground Xavier University Feb. 18, 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Railroad Freedom The Center for The James and Caroline For more information please Center Holocaust and call 513 745-3922. American Jewish Humanity Education Duff Banquet Room Committee at the Cintas Center The Edward B. Brueggeman Xavier University www.xavier.edu/dialogue Center for Dialogue Cincinnati cynthia cummins, administrative assistant Cynthia has been with the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue since its beginning. In addition to keeping the Center running, Cynthia has been in charge of the arrangements for hundreds of programs. PAST PROGRAMS

Past Programming

he most exciting question in program development is, “What’s next?” That question becomes so all-consuming that we rarely look back at the path we have traveled. The Tfollowing list reflects the past years of Brueggeman Center programming. It is a reminder of our wonderful regional, national and international partners; of the work we have shared with them to make Xavier University an important forum for public discussion of critical issues; of how much we have learned and how much we have yet to learn; of the thousands of people who have attended our programs and lent their voices to the dialogue; and of the challenges that lie ahead. from left to right: tom crain, kevin leahy, ray anderson, christopher flavin, kathleen smythe, james buchanan and david orr just prior to a town hall meeting titled “the search for a new energy future.” Past programming

2002 Town Hall “Globalization partnering with the Kettering Politics and Power in the 21st Stakes in Sudan: Reflections and the Environment,” Ralph Foundation, Ohio State Century, Scott Appleby, Amos on the Future of International Nader, John E. Pepper, University Extension, Civic Yong, Susannah Heschel, Humanitarian Law and Human Lawrence E. Sullivan, John W. Life Institute, University Mohammed Arkoun, Mark Rights april 5 Wilhelm, Marjory E. Searing. of Kentucky Dept. of Juergensmeyer, Arvind Holocaust Awareness Weeks/ march 11 Community & Leadership Sharma, William Dinges America’s Response to the Development & Cooperative oct. 31 Holocaust: What We Now Know 2003 Extension Service, the Nurturing Hope in the Face of and Why It Matters, cosponsored Scripps-Howard Center of Town Hall “Cincinnati on the AIDS Crisis, Naomi Tutu with Center for Humanity and Civic Engagement, Northern sept. 19 Holocaust Education april 10 the Brink: Race, Regionalism Kentucky University, and the and Prospering in a Global Northern Kentucky Public The Question of Iraq: Past, A Hero Speaks/“Hotel Economy—A Conversation about Policy Forum march 4-5 Present and Future, Greg Rwanda”: A Lesson Yet to be our Future,” David Rusk, Valerie Thielmann, Adeed Dawisha Learned, Paul Rusesabagina Lemmie, Pierre Fabre, V. Daniel Artistic Expressions Of Faith: sept. 23 april 13 Radford, Dr. Calvin A. Harper, Images of Women in Judaism, The Question of God: Town Hall “Food Security and Eric M. Ellis. april 14 Christianity and Islam, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Globalization,” Vandana Shiva, Diverse Traditions, Common Dr. Halide Salam march 11 Lewis, cosponsored with Ken Hackett, Julie Zavon april 17 Ideals-Christian, Jewish Muslim WCET sept. 28 The Health Impacts of Urban A Blessing To One Another: Relationships in a Post 9/11 Bangladeshi Workers Speak: The Pope John Paul II & The World sept. 11 Sprawl, partnering with the UC Environmental Policy Center Human Face Behind the Global Jewish People, Opening Brueggeman Chair Lecture: On march 18 Economy sept. 29 may 18 the Bridge between a Vanished Democracy and Civil Society, “Going Green” Webcast and EarthSpirit Rising/Ecology, Past and a Safe and Present Future, A Single Country Project for Workshop oct. 6, 13 Spirituality, Community, Professor Yaffa Eliach sept. 18 Afghanistan march 22 Searching for Common Ground: cosponsored with Imago, Matthew Fox, Winona LaDuke, Malidoma Brueggeman Symposium 2003- Brueggeman Center & E/ Catholicism and Pentecostal 2004 Women in the World’s Christianity in Dialogue, Amos Some, Diana Leafe Christian, RS Film and Discussion Frances Moore Lappe, Miriam Religions: Rethinking their Series: Globalization and the Yong oct. 12 Role in the 21st Century, with Therese MacGillis, OP, John Seed, Environment in Film-“Emerald Corporate Responsibility: How Christine E. Gudorf, Yaffa Eliach, Paula Gonzalez, SC july 8-10 Forest” march 24 to Use Global Principles, David Diana L. Hayes, Azra Karam, Schilling oct. 19 Hosted Imams with International Laura E. Donaldson, Rita M. Arun Gandhi: A Season of Visitor’s Center oct. 5 Gross, Layli Miller Muro, Nancy Non-Violence march 25 Romero Folk Mass for 20th “Vision of Hope presentation, Bertaux, Kandi Stinson, Carol Brueggeman Center & Anniversary of the Assassination

A Global Ethic,” James Buchanan PAST PROGRAMS Winkelmann oct. 26 of Archbishop Oscar Romero E/RS Film and Discussion & Paul Knitter oct. 17 Series: Globalization and the nov. 16 Contemporary Civil Rights: The HIV/AIDS and Islam: Between Spiritual and Social Journey of Environment in Film-“Whale Rider” march 31 2005 Scorn, Pity and Justice, Farid Bernard LaFayette with Bernard Esack/Brueggeman Chair nov. 6 LaFayette dec. 10 The Political and Aesthetic Middle Eastern Film Festival Dimension of the Feminine Ideal jan. 12-16 Immigrant’s Day nov. 13 2004 in China, Eva Kit Wah Man LEEDS Luncheon regarding the Nostra Aetate 40 Years Later: april 2 advantages of Xavier building The Future of Christian-Jewish Artistic Expressions Of Faith: Relations, Rabbi David Sandmel, Images of Women in Judaism, Claudia Stevens: An Evening with sustainability jan. 31 Madame F april 6 Rev. Dr. Peter Pettit, Elizabeth Christianity and Islam, Skirball Archbishop Michael L. Groppe nov. 14 Museum, Rabbi Ken Ehrlich, Dr. Town Hall “The Impact of Fitzgerald, president of the Eva Frojmovic feb. 26 Globalization on Women in Pontifical Council for Advocacy for Change: Refugees the US and the World,” Mary Interreligious Dialogue/”Interfaith and Rebels, Kenneth Bacon Artistic Expressions Of Faith: nov. 15 Images of Women in Judaism, Robinson, Jocelyn Dow, Deborah Relations Today”/Vatican ll’s Christianity and Islam, Cincinnati Henretta, Patricia Mische Nostra Aetate march 6 Debating The War In Iraq, Joseph Art Museum, Abby Schwartz, april 19 The Johnson & Johnson Credo: Wilson dec. 5 Peter Barnet, Michael David-Weill Brueggeman Symposium The Soul of this Fortune 50 march 4 Fundamentalism: The Company, Roger Fine march 14 Civic Engagement Institute, Changing Face of Religion, The Faces of Genocide/High “The Center not only educates about the complexities of multi-faceted current challenges; it also offers opportunities for public deliberation on matters of public concern. In this way, the Center serves the highest aspirations of both the University as well as wider society.”

anas malik | assistant professor of political science and sociology | Xavier University

2006 John Paul II and Benedict XVI: Dr. Baher Salem Foad, Farooq Scarborough, Hadia Mubarak, Sacred Space Through the Ages, The Papacy in the New Era of Kathwari, Jerry Leach april 23 Mark Pelavin, Sister Alice Opening Night, Cincinnati Art Jewish-Catholic Relations, Rabbi Uniting the Environmental and Gerdeman sept. 9 Museum, James Buchanan Michael Signer jan. 25 Labor Movements for Change, Afghanistan and Greater march 12 Gender and Family in Islam, Dilek Larry Fahn, Dave Foster june 26 Central Asia: An Unexpected Artistic Expressions of Faith: Cindoglu, Visiting Fulbright Healing Deadly Memories, Opportunity, Fred Starr sept. 18 Sacred Space Through the Ages, Scholar feb. 1 Dr. Arthur Dewey aug. 1 Taizé service at Bellarmine Chapel Skirball Museum, Anne Arenstein march 19 Artistic Expressions of Our Future in a Globalizing oct. 4 Faith: Exploring Aspects World,” John Quigley and Richard Children of Abraham, Interfaith Artistic Expressions of Faith: of Devotion in Judaism, Rohr aug. 19 Discussion and Exhibition, Eboo Sacred Space Through the Ages, Christianity and Islam, Patel oct. 17 Taft Museum of Art, Katie Opening Night, Cincinnati The Role of Religion in Politics: Johnson march 26 Views from the Right and Left, Confronting Death: Art Museum, Dr. B.S. Foad, Artistic Expressions of Faith: Rabbi Richard S. Sarason, J. Michelle Goldberg, Phil Burress Religious and Psychological aug. 29 Explorations, Jonathan Cohen, Sacred Space Through the Ages, Leo Klein, S.J. feb. 8 Islamic Center of Greater Are You Afraid Of Me? Post 9/11 Daniel Liechty, David Loy, Artistic Expressions of Faith: Anas Malik, Amy Olberding, Cincinnati, Danya Karram Exploring Aspects of Devotion in Community Forum, cosponsored april 2 with the Freedom Center sept. 9 Anantanand Rambachan, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Sheldon Solomon oct. 26-28 Town Hall “China and Skirball Museum, Dr. Nili Fox The Future of Islam: Toward Globalization,” Oded Shenkar, feb. 15 the Islamic Reformation, Brueggeman Fellows 2006-2007 Presentation nov. 2 Roger T. Ames, Elizabeth Artistic Expressions of Faith: Reza Aslan nov. 14 Economy april 3 Diwali cosponsor nov. 5 Exploring Aspects of Devotion Workshop: China and in Judaism, Christianity and 2007 Christians and Muslims: Toward a Globalization, Oded Shenkar, Islam, Islamic Center of Greater The Non-duality of Good and Shared Future, Elias Mallon, Amir Roger T. Ames, Elizabeth Cincinnati, Shakila Ahmad Evil: Buddhist Reflections on Hussain nov. 7 Economy, David E. Mungello, feb. 23 the New Holy Wars, David Loy Life in the Shadow Cities: A Peter Hershock, James Buchanan Artistic Expressions of Faith: jan. 25 Vision of the Future, Robert april 4-5 Exploring Aspects of Devotion in Islam: What Catholics Need to Neuwirth nov. 13 Catholic Values and the 2008 Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Know, Elias D. Mallon, SA feb. 5 “The Great Turning,” Joanna Macy Presidential Election, Joe Taft Museum of Art, Dr. Kristi lecture and workshop Feuerherd, James Gallagher, Doug Nelson march 2 How Do We Solve America’s Addiction to Oil? Cancelled due dec. 7-9 Kmiec, Thomas Melady sept. 29 Disarming the Heart, Disarming to weather feb. 13 Our Environmental Destiny, the World: The Active Path of 2008 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. oct. 2 Non-violence, John Dear Hillel Gala cosponsor feb. 24 march 23 Ugali Youth cosponsor april 8 Beyond Stereotypes: Islamophobia National Dialogue on the Use and and the War on Terror, David Purpose of US Power in the 21st Christian Leadership, Political Midwest Masala cosponsor Cole, Peter Gottschalk, Mohamed Century, Will Ferroggiaro oct. 23 Engagement, and Social Change, april 14 Nimer feb. 3 Jim Wallis march 27 Global Crises, Translocal Town Hall “HIV/AIDS and Rockwern Lecture, Rabbi Uncertainties: Women’s Survival, Developing Economies in an Era Globalization,” Paul Farmer, Irving Greenberg feb. 27 the Myth of Scarcity and of Globalization, Jamil Mahuad Lisa Sowle Cahill, Yaw Adu Seeking Refuge in the 21st Natural Resource Wars, april 3 Gyamfi, Kathryn Thompson Nandini Gunewardena nov. 7 april 22 Century: The Crisis in Darfur, Town Hall “Islam and Elisheva Milikowsky march 9 Brueggeman Fellows 2007-2008 Globalization,” Karen Armstrong, Day of Dialogue, Rick Artistic Expressions of Faith: Presentation nov. 14 2009 The Tragedy of Darfur and Sudan: EarthSpirit Rising, David Korten, A Dialogue with Omer Ismail and David Orr, Paula Gonzalez, SC, Simon Deng feb. 18 Miriam Therese MacGillis, OP Darfur Week, Educator’s june 12-14 Workshop, cosponsor feb. 21 Strengthening U.S. Security in a Darfur Week, Michael New Era, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard Chikwanine & Katie Meyler, Jr., and Brig. Gen. John Johns 2010 cosponsor feb. 23 sept. 9 My Prison, My Home: One Bioneers Conference: Greening Understanding Haitian Culture Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Woman’s Story of Captivity in Your Cities & Neighborhoods, and Development, Karen Iran, Haleh Esfandiari jan. 19 cosponsored with Imago. Richman feb. 25 Evolution, Karl Gilberson sept. 14 Invisible Children: The Story of Local speakers: Andrea Three Comics, Three Faiths: An Child Soldiers, Boni march 9 Torrice, Thane Maynard, Interfaith Comedy Show, Jordan Pakistan’s Foreign Relations Chad Edwards, Roxanne Carlos, Dan Ahdoot, Kumail Under The War On Terror, Search for the Spiritual Through Qualls, Laure Quinlivan. Nangiani march 12 Mansoor Alam sept. 16 Art, Opening Night, Cincinnati National speakers via satellite: “ Art Museum, Dr. Wilson Yates John Francis, Jessy Tolkan, When Truth Becomes Dangerous: In Defense of Food: The april 7 Mallika Dutt, Peter Warshall, Religion and Violence, Paul Omnivore’s Solution,” Michael James Hansen, Elizabeth K. Knitter march 15 Pollan, cosponsor, E/RS lecture E/RS Series and Town Hall: series sept. 27 A Conversation with Wendell Lindsey, Andy Lipkis, Mary Witnesses of Faith: The Gonzales, John Warner, Gary “Soil Not Oil: Food Security in Berry, Wes Jackson and Gene Struggle for Environmental Hirshberg, Lynne Twist, Gloria Times of Climate Change,” Logsdon april 11 Justice and Human Rights in Feldt, Anthony Dortese, Vandana Shiva, cosponsor, Survivor Soulmates, David Brazil, Brother Rodrigo de Jane Goodall oct. 15-17 Castro, Amedee Peret E/RS lecture series sept. 28 Gewirtzman and Eugenie Cradle to Cradle—Designing a march 25 “Inside Islam: What a Billion Mukeshimana april 13 Hopeful Future with Inspiration Muslims Really Think,” movie, Search for the Spiritual Through Town Hall “The Challenge from Living Systems, William showing at The National Art, Skirball Museum, Dr. Ahead: In Search of a New McDonough, Sustainability Day PAST PROGRAMS Underground Railroad Freedom Michael J. Cook april 14 Energy Economy,” Ray Anderson, oct. 25 oct. 10 Christopher Flavin, Kevin Leahy, Center Spirituality and Social Critique: Writing God’s Word: The Quran, David Orr april 6 “Soil Not Oil: Food Security A Modern Jewish Perspective, Imagery and Islamic Art, Sheila in Times of Climate Change,” Jonathan Garb april 15 Paul Dixon of Kingston nov. 3 oct. 18 Blair University/ “Honorable Vandana Shiva Search for the Spiritual Through White Rainbow, movie, with Deceptions? The Role of Political Inside Islam: What a Billion Art, Hindu Temple of Greater Linda Mandrayar, producer Lying in the Northern Ireland Muslims Really Think, movie, Cincinnati, Stephen Knapp nov. 16 Peace Process,” cosponsor showing at Xavier, Michael april 21 nov. 16 The Plight of Widows in India, april 17 Wolfe, producer Search for the Spiritual Through Dr. Mohini Giri nov. 17 Catholic/Jewish Dialogue, Taizé service at Bellarmine nov. 11 Art, Islamic Center of Greater Eugene Fisher & Rabbi Gary The Future of Islam: Muslim- Cincinnati, Danya Karram Greenebaum april 21 West Relations, John Esposito april 28 Politics Institute, “Kevin Phillips,” nov. 18 The New Strategic Arms cosponsor april 22 Brueggeman Fellows 2008-2009 Reduction Treaty (START): Out of Poverty, Paul Polak Presentation nov. 20 Reducing the Nuclear Threat, april 27 retired Lt. Generals Robert G. Gard, Jr. and Dirk Jamesons Children of Hope, Rabbi Abie sept. 8 Ingber april 28 2011 Bruggeman Fellows 2009-2010 Sonia Nazario: Hispanic Heritage Search for the Spiritual Through 3E Summit: Cincinnati’s Presentation Feb. 18 Series, author of “Enrique’s Art, Hindu Temple, Kanniks Summit on Energy-Economy- Film: What Are We Doing Here, Journey Oct. 6 Kannikeswaran March 28 Environment with Tim Klein, producer Feb. 23 Tamale Road Movie Presentation, Search for the Spiritual Art, Taft Participants included Xavier, the E/RS Levture: Jackie Brookner, Marcos Villatoro Oct. 19 Museum of Art, Stabat Mater: Edward B. Brueggeman Center On The Waterfront April 10 Contemporary Islam, Akbar Sacred Hymms with Catacoustic for Dialogue, and local “green” Oct. 21 Consort, April 11 organizations, including the Town Hall “The Global Water Ahmed Search for the Spiritual Art, City of Cincinnati’s Office of Crisis,” Greg Allgood, Peter Does China Exist?, James & Environmental Gleick, Menahem Libhaber Deborah Fallows Oct. 27 Islamic Center, Alex Kronemer April 11 April 18 Equality, community at large Recology, Recycling, Bob Besso, Oct. 5 Campaigns, Policy and Public Sustainability Day Nov. 7 Taize service at Bellarmine April 19 Raising Elijah: Protecting our Life: A Conversation with Dennis Rock the Casbah, Rage and Eckart, cosponsored with the African Summit III: Making Children 50 Years after Rachel Rebellion Across the Islamic Carson’s Silent Spring, Sandra Center for the Study of the World, Robin Wright Nov. 7 African Markets Accessible to the American Dream April 12 Midwest, Evans Nwanko Sept. 12 Steingraber Oct. 7 American Muslims and the Jerome Rothenberg: Readings A Blessing To One Another: CCJR/Council of Centers on Workplace: Seminar and Interfaith Jewish-Christian Relations Annual by the internationally renowned Dinner, Sponsored by the Islamic Pope John Paul II and the Jewish poet, essayist and anthologist, People, Exhibit displayed at Meeting, Plenary Session and Center of Greater Cincinnati Awards Dinner, speakers Amy-Jill cosponsored with the Xavier Nov. 17 Hebrew Union College-Jewish English Department April 13 Institute of Religion Sept. 10 to Levine, Art Dewey Oct. 14,15 A Bilingual Poetry Reading 2012 Jan. of 2012 domino01: Aqua/International with Father Ernesto Cardenal, Latin Lessons: How the U.S. “lost” Art Exhibition and Humanitarian cosponsored with Xavier’s On the Same Page: The South America, Hal Weitzman Collaboration of Worldwide Academic Service Learning Submission, Amy Waldman September 10 Distributed Art, Cosponsored by March 4 Semesters April 16 OMID (hope in Persian), Xavier, Islamophobia and Racism in and the Brueggeman Center for 9-11 Tenth Anniversary Islam and Modernity, Waheed this Election Year, Nihil Awad, March 12 Dialogue Nov. 28 Commemoration, City of Hussain Charles Hughes Sept. 19 Cincinnati Sept. 11 Search for the Spiritual Through IUSBN-India-US Business Crime, Espionage and War in Art, Opening Night, Cincinnati Network: India Comes to Cyberspace, Richard Clarke Art Museum, James Buchanan, Cincinnati, Greg O’Connor Sept. 15 Dr. Richard Sarason March 14 Oct. 3 Africa Foundation USA-Summit Europe, Debt and the Euro: Sustainability Week Events- What’s Really Going On and II: Global Expansion To Africa Silent Spring at 50: The Prophetic Sept. 17 What Does It Mean for the United States? March 20 Vision of Rachel Carson E/RS Lecture: Lani Guinier, Search for the Spiritual Through Kaiulani Lee: A Sense of Wonder Diversity, Justice and Law Oct. 4 Sept. 25 Art, Skirball Museum, Michael Alpert March 21 “Being a Fellow wasn’t just about research, reading, meetings and traveling. It was about being part of an inspired community of individuals.”

katie cole nagavi | kenya | 2006 | education in kibera slum

2013 Will the Year of the Snake Prove Network: Navigation Through in India: 10 Lessons Learned, Search for the Spiritual Through Venomous for Sino-US Relations? the Prism: What Our Deep Dive Chris Devonshire Nov. 11 Art, Hindu Temple, Swami Ambassador Jim Sasser, Professor Into India Taught Us, Dr. Rashmi Occupational Therapy Without Ishatmandanda March 5 Gray Sasser Feb. 5 Assudani May 23 Borders, Frank Kronenberg On the Same Page: A Star for Salvadoran Women Share Their Center for Economic Initiatives Nov. 11 Mrs. Blake, April Smith March 8 Culture at CFJ’s Community and National Bureau of Asian Xavier To Haiti: The Paths Of Energy Justice: Leading the Way Night, Marta Ramirez, Vitalina Research presentation and Two Alumni, Benjamin Krause, to a Third Industrial Revolution, Luna Feb. 18 discussion on business issues, led Scott Griffin Nov. 13 Jeremy Rifkin March 10 by four Asian experts May 28 Women’s Stories of Darkness Peter Hershock of the East-West Search for the Spiritual Through and Light in El Salvador, Marta Are Mars and Venue Realigned: Center in Hawaii, discussions Art, Taft Museum of Art, Caroline Ramirez, Vitalina Luna Feb. 21 US-EU Cooperation in surrounding the Asian Studies Hillard March 12 A 21st Century Defense Strategy- the Middle East, Daniel Minor at Xavier Nov. 19,20,21 Schwammenthal May 29 Search for the Spiritual Through Maximizing American Resources 3E Summit: Sustainability, The Art, Islamic Center, Michael in a Time of Austerity, Major Art at the X, Multicultural New Path to Growing Your Wolfe March 19 General Paul D. Eaton Feb. 19 Expressions of Faith, Endowed by Business, cosponsors included a grant from Xavier University’s Town Hall “Building Sustainable IUSBN-India-US Business the US Green Building Council, Local Economies in an Age of Network: Reaching 1/5 of the Women of Excellence. City of Cincinnati Office of Cosponsored by Xavier’s Globalization,” Michael Shuman, World, Adrian Mutton, Olaf Environment and Sustainability, Kristen Barker, Michele Bertaux Friese Feb. 27 Department of Art, Office of Green Umbrella Nov. 22 the Vice Provost for Diversity, March 17 On The Same Page: The End Women’s Center, Center for Forum on Hydraulic Fracturing Brueggeman Fellows 2013-2014 of Your Life Book Club, Will Mission and Identity, Dorothy and Shale Drilling, cosponsored Presentation March 21 Schwalbe March 2 Day Center for Faith and Justice, with the American Jewish Pope Francis: The Jesuit and Center for Interfaith Community Committee and The League of Brueggeman Fellows 2012-2013 Franciscan Legacy, presentation Engagement, and the Brueggeman Women Voters Dec. 4 Presentation March 8 and discussion on the one year Center for Dialogue May- U.S. Intervention: When is anniversary of his papacy, Gillian September 2013 2014 Enough Really Enough?, Robin Ahlgren, Christopher Pramuk Wright March 14 African Summit IV, Christopher Afghanistan and Central Asia Were March 18 Che Sept. 21 Once the Center of the World: Islam Without Extremes: A “Sanctity of Sanctuary: Paul What They Achieved 1,000 Years PAST PROGRAMS Muslim Case for Liberty, Mustafa Justice and the Politics of Dignity, Strauss and the Equinox Ago and What, if Anything, This Akyol March 21 Michael Rosen Sept. 23 Farm,” film showing at Esquire Means Today? S. Frederick Starr Theater, Lloyd Library, Kennedy Out of Cordoba Film and A Tale of Two Futures: How Jan. 16 Discussion, with Jacob Bender, Empowerment Helped One Auditorium at Xavier, Blis Iran: Nuclear Negotiations, director March 21 Mayan Girl Beat the Odds, DeVault, producer Feb. 5,21, Ancelma Ortiz Oct. 14 Human Rights and Other March 26 Colonialism Empire, and Race: Emerging Priorities, John Carriage House Farm Tour, led by The Politics of Modern Jewish- Energy Justice: Sustainable Forms Bradshaw Feb. 11 Christian Relations, Susannah of Energy, Joan Fitzgerald, Larry Paul Strauss/Practical Visionary in “Crimes in the Heartland,” Heschel, cosponsor, E/RS Lecture Falkin, Garry Harris, Sustainability Residence at Xavier March 28 movie, showing at The National Series April 8 Day Oct. 28 Mexico’s Predicament and Underground Freedom Center American Policy, Gustavo Esteva The Spiritual Significance of Jihad Indonesia and the Arab Spring: Feb. 24 in Islamic Economics, Dr. Waleed No Easy Answers, Elizabeth April 3 Search for the Spiritual Through El-Ansary April 22 Collins Oct. 29 Green Umbrella 2014 Art, Opening Night, Cincinnati Sustainability Summit, John Picard Poetic Vision Tour-Introspicere, Swami Vivekananda: 150th Birth Art Museum, James Buchanan May 12 special musical journey through Anniversary, cosponsored with the Feb. 19 800 years of poetry, Dawud World Hindu Council Cincinnati Search for the Spiritual Through Wharnsby, Saad Muhammad, J. Chapter, and the Hindu Society of Art, Skirball Museum, David Mecka, Saad Omar April 28 Greater Cincinnati Nov. 10 Gitlitz Feb. 26 IUSBN-India-US Business IUSBN-India-Starting a Business Continuation of 2014 The Legacy of Martha/The Last Midwest Regional Sustainability for Faith & Justice, Institute for Passenger Pigeon and the Rise of Summit: Ground-breaking Spirituality ahd Social Justice, World Refugee Day Cup: Soccer Conservation, Joel Greenberg, daylong conference to share XU Gender & Diversity Studies, event at Taft High School, John Reiger, Nancy Stranahan, latest ideas, resources and Jewish Community Relations with local refugee groups Thane Maynard October 29 solutions, and to dialogue with Council, XU Mission & Identity, participating, cosponsors included forward thinkers, sustainability Ethics/Religion & Society RefugeeConnect, and HIAS Massacre: The Bloody Week & The Death of the Paris leaders and companies working Program, XU Department of (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) to make a positive impact in Theology September 20 June 28 Commune, John Merriman November 6 environmental sustainability, The International Politics and The Current State of Politics Stan Meiburg, U.S. EPA Acting Bioethics of Human Genetic in Pakistan and its Implications Let Them Eat Precaution, Jon Deputy Administrator, cosponsor Entine November 11 Engineering, Jamie Metzl for US Foreign Policy, Dr. included Green Umbrella, City September 30 Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq, visiting Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan, Russia? Karen Dawisha, author Greater Cincinnati Green Business Living & Making History: The Dr. Anas Malik, Associate December 1 Council, U.S. Green Building Marc H. Tanenbaum Collection Professor of Political Science Council (Cincinnati Chapter) and the 50th Anniversary of at Xavier August 14 May 1 Vatican II, Hebrew Union 2015 College-Hewish Institute of Weekend launch, Institute for Pope Francis: His Commitment What Is It Like To Be A Refugee? Religion, reflections by Dr. James Spirituality & Social Justice, Paul to the Environment, Dan Misleh Dr. Ana Julieta Calvo June 18 P. Buchanan, Brueggeman Center Knitter, Professor Emeritus, March 12 Irregular Warfare, U.S. Special for Dialogue October 11 Theology at Xavier, and formerly Water Justice Series/Blue Operations, Dr. Kalev I. Sepp What Is The Right Thing To Do? Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, July 13 World Religions and Culture Future: Protecting Water For Michael Sandel, co-sponsored at Union Theological Seminar, People and The Planet Forever, Why We Stay: The Changing by the Cintas Institute for cosponsors ISSJ, Office of Maude Barlow, speaker, author, Role of Women and Our Faith Business Ethics, Ethics, Religion, The President, Department of cosponsors included Sustainability Communities, Rosemary Radford and Society at Xavier, and the Theology, Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier, Green Umbrella, Ruether, Judith Plaskow, Amy Brueggeman Center for Dialogue September 26, 27, 28 Senior Administrative Fellow for Levin, Gina Messina-Dysert, October 15 Sustainability & Environmental Jennifer Zobair, Amina Wadud, From Jails to Jobs: Imagination, Environmental co-Editors and authors, Faithfully Community Re-Entry & Science Program, MA in Urban Feminist. Funding supported by the Criminal Justice System Sustainability & Resilience a grant from Xavier University’s Father Greg Boyle, SJ, cosponsor March 16 Women of Excellence, with included Office of the President, additional support from The Center for Faith and Justice, and What Do We Do About ISIS? President’s Office, and the thirteen local churches, faith Major General Paul D. Eaton Brueggeman Center for Dialogue. based and secular organizations (Ret.) April 1 Cosponsored by American Jewish October 2 Committee, The Center for Water Justice Series/Blue Diversity & Inclusion, Islamic Revolution: A Water Ethic Center of Greater Cincinnti, for America, Cynthia Barnett Center for Interfaith Community October 19 Engagement, Dorothy Day Center Responsibility And Hope For A World In Conflict: 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate, 2016 Sunni Shiite: An Instructive The Future of Energy: A View Yonathan Arfi, Francis X. 15 Years Later: The Cincinnati Conversation, Consul General from the Frontlines of the Energy Clooney, S.J., and Dr. Seyyed Riots and The Future of the City- of Pakistan, Faisal Niaz Trimizi Wars, Todd Schwartz June 7 Hossein Nasr, global leaders in Series of Events: April 7 Midwest Regional Sustainability interreligious thought and action An Evening with Fr. Michael The Refugee Crisis: Policy Summit 2016: Stakeholders explore together ways in which Responses in Germany and throughout the Ohio Valley region interfaith collaboration can Graham: Reflections on 2001 January 21 Europe, Consul General of the and adjoining areas discuss enrich our community and our Federal Republic of Germany, and celebrate the work that is world. Cosponsored by Hebrew The Collaborative Agreement: A Herbert Quelle April 11 currently being done throughout Union College-Jewish Institute of Dialogue with Judge Susan Dlott Climate Change: Examining our the Midwest and identify future Religion, Center for Holocaust January 26 regional collaboration. Keynote and Humanity Education, XU Responses, Global and Local Film Screening: Cincinnati Moderated by James Buchanan, from Paul Hawken, co-founder of Department of Theology, Islamic Goddamn (directors April Martin Smith & Hawken, internationally Center of Greater Cincinnati, Panelists; Nancy Bertaux, Anas and Paul Hill) Malik, John Sniegocki, Scott recognized proponent of Program of Catholic Studies sustainable business practices. Co- Town Hall Meeting, panelists Rev. Hassell April 12 at University of Cincinnati, sponsors include Green Umbrella, Damon Lynch III, Iris Roley, Bellarmine Chapel, XU Mission From Fear to Freedom: Fighting City of Cincinnati, Hamilton Al Gerhardstein, Captain Maris & Identity, Archdiocese of Islamophobia Moderated by County, Greater Cincinnati Green Herold, moderated by Donna Cincinnati, and the Jewish James Buchanan, director, Business Council, U.S. Green Jones Baker, President & CEO Community Relations Council. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue, Building Council (Cincinnati the Urban League of Greater October 18 Panelists; Dr. Amina Darwish, Chapter) June 10 Cincinnati February 2 University of Cincinnati, Dr. Anas Food For All: Reverend David The U.S. Foreign Service-Does It Musical Event: The Armed Man B. Malik, Xavier University, Dr. Beckmann, President, Bread for Matter Today? D. Thomas Longo 2016 (by Kaleel Skeirik and Baher Foad, Islamic Center of the World October 22 July 5 Tyrone Williams) March 1 Greater Cincinnati, Imam Illyas The Cooperative Economy: Nashid, Islamic Center of Greater How International Immersion and Sponsored by The President’s Building a Sustainable Future, Cincinnati, Dr. Saba Chughtai , Study Abroad Can Change Your Office at Xavier, Cosponsored by cosponsored by Ethics/Religion Muslim Mothers Against Violence Life and Career Sept. 23 the Ethics/Religion and Society & Society, Community Blend, April 13 Cincinnati Union Coop Initiative, Program, The Eigel Center for Drs. Henry A. Kissinger and The Eigel Center at Xavier, and Community-Engaged Learning, The Cooperative Economy: Tom Gold: CHINA Town Hall: Brueggeman Center for Dialogue The Center for Diversity and Building a Sustainable Future Local Connections, National PAST PROGRAMS November 12 Inclusion, The Brueggeman Interactive conference aimed Reflections: 10th annual CHINA Center for Dialogue at preparing the way for a Town Hall at over 70 locations. Pope Francis, Consumption more inclusive and cooperative Co-sponsored by Foreign Policy Refugees and the Responsibility Justice & The Economics Of economy. Keynotes, Jessica Leadership Council, Brueggeman to Welcome: Yours, Mine and Genuine Wealth, Mark Anielski Gordon Nembauer, John Center for Dialogue, Greater Ours, Mark Hetfield January 6 November 16 Jay College, Melissa Hoover, Cincinnati Chinese Chamber Neighborhood Economics Drones and the International Democracy At Work Institute. of Commerce, and Greater Conference 2015: Accelerating Law of Armed Conflict, James April 21 Cincinnati World Affairs Council Mackler February 9 the low of capital through our World Refugee Day Cup: Soccer Oct. 18 neighborhoods, held at Gallagher Nixon’x Nuclear Specter: The event at Xavier University to Legal Terms and Issues on Theater and Student Center, Madman Theory, The Secret celebrate World Refugee Day. Immigration: Panel of experts Xavier University. Sponsored Nuclear Alert of 1969, and Their Teams from countries around the offers definitions relevant to policy by SOCAP, and the Economics Lessons for Our Times March 8 world compete. Events for families and practices facing immigrants, of Compassion, in partnership This Changes Everything: Avi include a resource fair and a family migrants and refugees. Oct. 26 with the Parish Collective, Christ Lewis Film, inspired by Naomi fun zone. Cosponsors include Church Cathedral, The Diocese Klein’s book. Epic attempt to RefugeeConnect, a project of of Southern Ohio, Balle, CiNBA, re-imagine the vast challenge of the Junior League of Cincinnati, Xlink, Locavesting, Kiva, and the climate change. April 3 and the Edward B. Brueggeman Brueggeman Center for Dialogue. Center for Dialogue at Xavier November 17, 18 June 4 Women & Faith: Deborah Levine “Issues of Religion and Faith are emerging as major challenges in the American workplace. Religious Diversity at Work guides business 2017 leaders and service providers ReelAbilities Film Festival: through religious differences. Our Organized by LADD, notably through initiatives he many contributors provide much- Living Arrangements for the has founded such as The Dream needed religious literacy, expert Developmentally Disabled, Corps, Green for All and Rebuild advice on minimizing conflict, region’s largest film festival, the Dream. June 9 and engaging training tools.” Ms. dedicated to celebrating the Levine, editor, Religious Diversity lives, stories and art of people Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, at Work and Religious Diversity in who experience disability and and the Triumph of Diplomacy, our Schools Nov. 3 difference. Brings together the Trita Parsi June 26 Food Waste: A Strategic Regional many individuals and agencies Conversation; Creating a Road in greater Cincinnati serving Map to Prevent, Recover, Recycle veterans, and people with The Middle East: A Diplomat’s Nov. 4 disabilities involving motor, View, A Wide Ranging developmental, sensory, and Conversation with Ambassador mental health challenges. Dani Dayan, Consul General of Journeys of Immigrant March 9-12 Israel in New York August 29 Entrepreneurs: Panel of entrepreneurs who moved to America by choice or by necessity, XU Dementia Care Summit and CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY faced the challenges of trying to Refresh Your Soul Conference, MONTH 2017: LAND establish themselves, and found Teepa Snow March 13, 14 JUSTICE “FOR Land’s success. Main sponsorship thru the The God of Life and a Civilization Sake” A MULTI-GENRE Center for International Business of Love, Catholic Response to the PRESENTATION IN THE at Xavier, cosponsored by the Refugee and Immigration Crisis, ARTS, Michael Henson, Sherry Brueggeman Center for Dialogue Professor Tim Groody April 5 Cook Stanforth, Karl Zuelke at Xavier, and Refugee Connect, October 12 Climate Justice Series: Climate Nov. 17 Change and the Merchants of Doubt, Dr. Naomi Oreskes Civil Rights in the US with Ta-Nehisi Coates: One of April 6 Thomas Wheeler II October 26 America’s most important voices, Latin America Trending towards particularly on issues of race, Midwest Regional Sustainability Beijing, Washington, or its inequality, mass incarceration, and Summit 2017: Why equity is Southern Star, Dr. Cynthia reparations. His award-winning often overlooked in the discussion Watson December 5 essay for The Atlantic, “The Case around sustainability, and for Reparations,” was widely read ways in which new economic and discussed during the summer opportunities can be pursued of 2014 and is now taught in that are both socially and classrooms across the US. Between environmentally just. Keynote the World and Me, a letter to his speaker Van Jones, brings a wealth son about race and police brutality, of knowledge and experience won the National Book Award in in linking the economy, the 2015, Nov. 20 environment and social justice, 2018 Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the fun zone. Cosponsors include Interfaith Breakfast, Over The Sustainable Communities, Struggle for Power, Ambassador RefugeeConnect, and the Edward Rhine International Film Festival: Sasha Forbes Oct. 29 Kenton Keith February 13 B. Brueggeman Center for This year marks the second annual Dialogue at Xavier June 23 Interfaith Breakfast, cosponsored 2016-17 Brueggeman Fellows Cincinnati Festival of Faiths: by the Brueggeman Center for Travel Research Presentations Dialogue. The Interfaith Breakfast Modeled after popular long- AJC Cincinnati Thanksgiving February 23 standing festivals in Louisville celebrates our shared humanity with an inclusive gathering of Diversity Lunch: The and Indianapolis, this is Greater Five Freedoms of the First Cincinnati’s first festival, faith communities. The event When US foreign policy is sponsored by the Over The Amendment, Kevin Aldridge goals conflict with conduct of showcasing the many faith Nov. 14 traditions of our region. It also Rhine International Film Festival American businesses abroad, along with InterfaithCincy.org Qaisar Shareef March 26 includes a day of community Cincinnati Union Co-op service for interfaith groupings and The Festival of Faiths. Over The Rhine Film Festival, formerly Initiative: Creating an Economy of volunteers. Organized by the that Works for All Nov. 29 Earth Day with Vandana local Bridges of Faith Trialogue, ReelAbilities, is organized by Shiva: Vandana Shiva was the Festival’s objectives are to LADD. It’s the region’s largest film named one of the top Seven festival, dedicated to celebrating Green Umbrella 20th Anniversary promote awareness of Greater Celebration Dec. 6 most Powerful Women on the Cincinnati’s religious diversity, the lives, stories and art of people Globe by Forbes magazine in who experience disability and celebrate the variety of cultural International Cybersecurity 2010. Trained as a physicist, contributions to our community’s difference September 26-28 she founded Navdanya, a The Depth and Breadth of the quality of life, and educate families Challenge, Gene Price Dec. 13 national movement to protect about the world’s religions. The Cincinnati 2030 District Inaugural the diversity and integrity of theme for this inaugural event is Event: The 2030 Districts are living resources, especially “Compassion through Action” in a national model for urban native, see the promotion recognition of the role the faith sustainability. Each District is of organic farming and fair community has historically played comprised of developers, property trade. This event is part and continues to play in advancing owners and managers who make of the Land Justice Series, a civil, socially just and welcoming an aggregated commitment to Sustainability at Xavier. community for all who live, work reducing their building’s energy Cosponsored by Sustainability and visit Greater Cincinnati. The use, water consumption, and at Xavier, Green Umbrella event will also serve to unify our transportation emissions by 50% Regional Sustainability community, focusing on our by the year 2030. The Cincinnati PAST PROGRAMS Alliance, Ethics, Religion similarities and celebrating our 2030 District is a collaborative and Society at Xavier, differences. June 24 effort to create a network of Brueggeman Center at Xavier healthy, high-performing buildings April 22 in Cincinnati. October 5 Business and Human Rights: Progress in addressing modern Refugee Empowerment North Korea: What is happening Initiative Summit 2018: Refugee slavery in Asian supply chains, Sean Lees July 10 and is Trump’s effort a mirage? A Empowerment Initiative partners private discussion with James Min create a space to present, discuss, and Keith Luse October 10 and co-create solutions for What is US Foreign Policy today? challenges facing our Refugee Is there a Trump Doctrine? Al Populism on the Rise: What communities April 25 Tuchfarber, Professor Emeritus Does This Mean for Minority of Political Science, University Communities in Germany and of Cincinnati, Patrick Haney, Europe? Stefan Schluter Fifth Annual World Refugee October 22 Day Cup Soccer Tournament at Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean, College of Arts Xavier University to celebrate Sustainability Day: A World Refugee Day. Teams and Sciences, Miami University August 15 Connected Future: Centering from countries around the world Equity and Justice on the compete. Events for families Path to Environmentally include a resource fair and a family 2019

Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & by The Holocaust and Humanity Humanity Center Grand Opening Center and JCRC, Brueggeman Jan. 26, 27 Center, cosponsor April 9 World Refugee Day Cup Soccer Over the Rhine International Tournament: Sponsored by Film Festival: The 5 pillars of FBI: The International Mission, AJC Cincinnati 2019 Simon RefugeeConnect, cosponsored the festival represent a mission Joseph M. Deters Feb. 28 Lazarus Jr. Awards: For more than five decades, AJC Cincinnati has by Brueggeman Center, Xavier of inclusion upon which this recognized high school students University Soccer Field June 22 festival is rooted. Films are Brueggeman Fellows 2017-2018 from across Greater Cincinnati selected based on alignment Presentation & Dinner March 1 and Northern Kentucky for their How should America compete with one or more of the community service efforts, Dr. in the new Global Superpower pillars; Freedom, Identity, XU Dementia Care Summit: James P. Buchanan, Judge Competition? An Evening with Diversity, Disability, Faith. Families, Clients, & Professionals March 14, April 10 Lt. General (Ret) Ben Hodges Sponsored by LADD Inc. Unite, Coming Together for July 11 Oct. 2-6 Dementia Care, Teepa Snow AJC Cincinnati 75th March 20 Commemorative Dinner, David It’s Commonly Jazz: Featuring jazz Jubilee Conference: Start to move Harris, CEO, Speaker May 2 musicians, founded in Cincinnati money around in service of Black Faith to Faith: An 35 years ago. Performances in land, debt and enterprise. Connect Interfaith Forum on Sexual 16th Annual Ramadan Iftar Seasongood Pavilion in Eden the players, build commitment to Assault and Relationship Dinner, Islamic Center of Greater Park, every Thursday in August, wealth creation Oct. 12 Abuse, Sponsored by the Cincinnati May 12 Aug. 5,12,19,26 Brueggeman Center for To Redeem the Soul of America: Dialogue at Xavier, the Midwest Sustainability Summit Greater Cincinnati’s Second A Taft Lecture Event Featuring President’s Office at Xavier, 2019: Keynote address by Annual Festival of Faiths: Taylor Branch Oct. 21 Women Helping Women, Andrew Winston, a globally “Celebrating the Community’s Crossroads, American Jewish recognized speaker and Religious Diversity,” 13 World Resilience: Planting Seeds and Committee, Islamic Center of writer on business strategy Religions represented Sept. 8 Growing Movements, The Greater Cincinnati, Xavier’s and mega-trends, a plenary 2019 Annual Gathering of the Center for Faith and Justice session featuring regional Imago Music In The Woods Intercommunity Justice and Peace and Institute for Spirituality winners of the Bloomberg Sept. 14 Center, Winona Laduke Oct. 28 and Social Justice, the YWCA Foundation American Cities of Greater Cincinnati, Climate Challenge, and Jewish Festival: Cincinnati’s Jewish 2019 APNET SYMPOSIUM: Interfaith Cincy, Festival of breakout sessions on topics and Israeli arts and culture festival, UNLOCKING OUR Faiths, and additional faith like energy, transportation, Sept. 22 POTENTIAL TO THE community representatives. water technology, and green COMMUNITY, African March 31 workforce development. The Current Impact of Today’s Professionals Network annual Sponsors include Green U.S. Immigration System Symposium Nov. 2 Taft Lecture Series: Stamped From Umbrella, and Brueggeman and Policies: Real World The Beginning, A Definitive Center. June 14 Ramifications for the TriState, History of Racist Ideas in Historical Context and Possible America, Author and Historian The Challenges of International Solutions, An Evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi April 8 Cultural Preservation Rebuilding Bryan Wright, Julie LeMaster, “Driving Out Darkness: Notre Dame, Elizabeth Riorden Esq. & Doug Halpert, Esq. 2019 Regional Summit on June 18 Sept. 24 Antisemitism and Hate” Presented Nun on the Bus Stops in Cincinnati: Sister Simone, Community Building, & Income “Awake & Act: The Role of Inequality, Office of Institutional 2020 the Police and Nonviolence” “American Antisemitism in Diversity & Inclusion, CPS Sponsored by the Non Violence Historical Perspective”, CCJR, Committee on Diversity & “Shoot This Not That” Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, Council of Centers on Jewish Inclusion, College of Professional directed by Alphonzo Wesson, IJPC Intercommunity Justice and Christian Relations, Conference Sciences, cosponsor Brueggeman documentary, featuring the Peace Center July 29 Webinar Oct. 25 Center Nov. 4 Homicide Survivors Youth Initiative, focusing on the 2020 Midwest Regional “Beyond Dialogue: The Power RefugeeConnect 5th Annual impact of gun violence on Sustainability Summit: “Cities of Interfaith Collaboration” Scholarship Awards: Scholarships Cincinnati youth Jan. 24 of the Future: Becoming Sponsored by the Institute for invest in refugee students by a Regenerative Region,” Archie Rand: Sixty Paintings Religious Liberty at Thomas providing financial awards imagining how cities can from the Bible, sex, violence, and More University, Panelists: for refugees to pursue higher become regenerative hubs family drama in the Hebrew bible, James Buchanan Ph.D., Aaron education in Cincinnati and that enhance rather than in partnership with Olli (Osher Bludsworth, Gary Phillip Zola beyond Nov. 7 deplete our natural resources, Lifelong Learning Institute) Ph.D. promote a vibrant, resilient CLASH OF Feb. 18 built environment and “Awake & Act: Successes and GLOBALIZATIONS: THE support healthy, equitable Shortcomings of Police Oversight USA AND CHINA, “Much Food Sourcing Event, R. Alan communities. By examining Efforts with Jules Griff” Sponsored more than a trade war” Wight, Ph.D., Community & innovative strategies to link by the Non Violence Alliance An Evening with James P. School Forest Garden Liaison, rural, urban and suburban of Greater Cincinnati, IJPC Buchanan Nov. 14 University of Cincinnati Feb. 19 communities, we can identify Intercommunity Justice and Peace new opportunities to build Brueggeman Fellows 2018-2019 Center Nov. 18 4th Biennial Union Co-op regions that are both socially (Cincy) Symposium, learning Presentation & Dinner Feb. 21 and environmentally resilient. EquaSion Art 4 Heart Arts about practical tools on how Sponsors include Green How to Start, Build and Run a Contest Nov. 15 to start and run union worker Umbrella and Brueggeman cooperatives and developing Social Enterprise That Changes Center Majora Carter, AJC Cincinnati Thanksgiving connections between union the World, Rupert Scofield, global Keynote August 5, 6 Diversity Lunch: “Celebrating coops across North America (and microfinance pioneer Feb. 27 Our Unique Roots and Shared beyond!) Nov. 15 It’s Commonly Jazz: Featuring jazz An Evening with SOTENI, Vales As We Gather In Gratitude” musicians, founded in Cincinnati PAST PROGRAMS SOTENI International’s mission Alicia Kapper Nov. 19 AJC Cincinnati Thanksgiving 35 years ago. Performances in is to prevent and mitigate the Diversity Lunch, focusing on Seasongood Pavilion in Eden effects of disease, especially HIV/ AJC’s Community of Conscience, Park, every Thursday in August, AIDS, and now COVID, through aimed at rejecting bigotry and August 7, 14, 21, 28 amplifying values that unite all community-based programs in rural Kenya March 3 Americans Nov. 19 Imago Music In Your Woods Sept. 19, 26 Immigrant and Refugee AJC Cincinnati 2020 Simon Lazarus Jr. Awards: For more than Law Center’s Volunteer “Awake & Act: Living five decades, AJC Cincinnati has Appreciation Reception, Nonviolently in 2020” Sponsored recognized high school students IRLC is a one-of-a-kind school- by the Non Violence Alliance from across Greater Cincinnati based nonprofit organization that of Greater Cincinnati, IJPC and Northern Kentucky for their provides pro bono legal services Intercommunity Justice and community service efforts, Dr. across a spectrum of humanitarian Peace Center needs for low-income immigrant James P. Buchanan, Judge April 1 and refugee families Dec. 11 US-China: Dimensions of a APNET, African Professionals Complicated Relationship, Network, 10th Anniversary Cynthia Watson June 3 Celebration Oct. 22, 23, 24 2021

Between Dialogue and Action: A webinar conversation about different approaches to interreligious work and the complex relationship between interreligious dialogue and action, Sponsored by the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, Jerusalem, Moderated by Sarah Bernstein James Buchanan, Rabbi Bob Kaplan, Maha Elgenaidi Jan. 18

“Awake & Act: The Role of the Citizen Complaint Authority with Zeke Williams” Sponsored by the Non Violence Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, IJPC Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center Jan. 27 St. Monica-St. George Some of the Brueggeman Center’s Partners Parish Newman Center Authentic dialogue engages diverse opinions. That’s why the Brueggeman Center Taft Museum of Art seeks the broadest scope in its partner organizations. Since its inception, the Center has UNESCO partnered with more than 80 local, national and international organizations. University of Cincinnati AFL-CIO Green Umbrella New Prospect Baptist Church Environmental Policy Center Alvernia University, Reading, PA Hebrew Immigration Aid Society North American Interfaith University of Cincinnati International Programs American Jewish Committee Hebrew Union College- Network Jewish Institute of Religion The Northern Kentucky Public University of Cincinnati Archdiocese of Cincinnati Urban Morgan Institute Hillel Jewish Student Center Policy Forum Avila University, Kansas City, MO The University of Kentucky The Holocaust Museum of Northern Kentucky University Bilbao University, Spain Office of Education Abroad Department of Community Houston and Leadership Catholic Charities of South- Ohio Council of Churches Development and western Ohio, Refugees HUC-UC Ethics Center Cooperative Extension Advisory Board InHEIRitance Project Ohio Humanities Council Service Christ Church Cathedral Immigrant and Refugee The Ohio State University The Virginia Holocaust Law Center Extension Cincinnati Art Museum Museum, Richmond OMID Civic Engagement Workshop Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center The Parish Collective XAVIER PROGRAMS Civic Life Institute International Catholic Movement Parliament of the World’s Bellarmine Chapel Common Ground for Intellectual and Cultural Religions Center for Diversity and Inclusion Council of Centers on Affairs Pax Romana Center for International Jewish-Christian Relations Education International Council of The InHEIRitance Project Council of Christian Christians and Jews Cintas Institute for Business Ethics The Pluralism Project, Communions of Greater The Community Building Islamic Center of Greater Harvard University Cincinnati Cincinnati Institute Proctor and Gamble Corporation Council on American- Jewish Community Relations Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Islamic Relations Council RefugeeConnect Justice The Eigel Center for Community The Diocese of Southern Ohio Jewish Federation of Cincinnati Refugees International Engagement Duke Energy Foundation Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Rockwern Foundation Ethics/Religion and Society Duquesne University, Pittsburgh The Jewish Museum of Maryland, The Scripps-Howard Center Program The East–West Center, Honolulu Baltimore of Civic Engagement, International Student Services Northern Kentucky ISSJ/Institute for Spirituality Economics of Compassion Kettering Foundation University and Social Justice Economic Opportunity Taskforce Loyola Museum of Art, Saint John Paul II National Shrine, The Jesuit Community Chicago EquaSion Washington DC McDonald Library Merton Institute/Thomas Festival of Faiths Shalom Hartman Institute, Office of Interfaith Community Merton Institute for Jerusalem The Florida Holocaust Museum, Contemplative Living Engagement St. Petersburg, FL Sierra Club Philosophy, Politics and the Public Metropolitan Area Religious Program FPLC/Foreign Policy Leadership Skirball Cultural Center, Coalition of Cincinnati Senior Administrative Fellow Council Los Angeles Miami University/ Fulbright for Sustainability Franciscan’s Network/ Visiting Specialists Program Skirball Museum at Hebrew Franciscan’s International Union College-Jewish Sustainability at Xavier The Museum of Jewish Heritage, Institute of Religion The George Washington New York Xavier Entrepreneurial Center Carver Museum and SOCAP/Social Capital Markets Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust Cultural Center, Phoenix & Humanity Center Sojourners We have also partnered with 20 Greater Cincinnati Advocates academic departments or programs at National Issues Forums Southern Ohio District Export for Darfur Council Xavier, student government and many National Security Network clubs and student organizations. Greater Cincinnati World Affairs STOP AIDS Council National Underground Railroad Freedom Center St. Joseph’s University, Greater Dayton Christian Philadelphia Connections