Social Vision III: October, 2021

Spiritual Environmentalism (October 2021)

Nigel Savage – Founder, Hazon

Exploring the Thought of Religious Giants

Shaul Magid – Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, Lawrence H. Schiffman – Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies.

Interconnectedness in All Aspects of Life

Marcia Brennan – Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Humanities at Rice University, and Professor of Art History and Religious Studies, Kate Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, London University and is currently a Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University, Wales, and the University of Chester, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at New York University in London.

Interplay Between Self and Other in Lived Experience

Leore Sachs-Shmueli – Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Nathaniel Berman – Rahel Varnhagen Chair in Brown University’s Department of Religious Studies.

Developing an Interconnected Society

Peter J. Whitehouse – MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto as well as former Professor in seven other departments, Shelley Christenen author of From Longing to Belonging: A Practical Guide to Including People with Disabilities in Faith Communities and Jewish Community Guide to Inclusion of People with Disabilities. Shelley is the founder and CEO of Inclusion Innovations. Paul Wason is Senior Director, Culture and Global Perspectives at the John Templeton Foundation.

Interconnectedness with the Non-Human World

Jon Erickson – Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont, Ariel Mayse – Assistant Professor Standford University Department of Religious Studies and serves as the rabbi-in-residence at ATIQ: Jewish Maker Institute.

Liel Leibovitz and Kenyon Bonner in Conversation

Liel Leibovitz – Editor at large at Tablet Magazine and the co-host of the podcast, Unorthodox, Kenyon Bonner – Vice Provost and Dean of Students, University of Pittsburg.

Building Interconnectedness in the Carceral Setting

Julie Wertheimer – Project Director at the Pew Research Center, Elaine Leeder – Social Science Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita of Sociology at Sonoma State University. She has 44 years of teaching experience, including working in prisons with convicted felons. Leeder was visiting scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a recipient of the Real Hero Award by the America Red Cross for her prison work.

Interdependence in Diverse Contexts

Bill Parsons – Professor of Religion at Rice University, Bill has written and edited several books, including The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling (Oxford, 1999), Teaching Mysticism (Oxford, 2011), and Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain (Routledge, 2001), Mourning Religion (Virginia, 2008.), Peter McClaren – Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University received his Masters in Jewish Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in 2022 and is a Fellow at the IJSS.

Reflective Learning for Interconnectivity

Ethan Youngerman – Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU where he has taught for twenty years, Ben Selznick – Assistant Professor of Strategic Leadership with a focus on postsecondary analysis and leadership at James Madison University, Dr. Teniell L. Trolian – Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership at the University at Albany, State University of New York, Kirk S. Robinson, since 2019, Kirk has worked at the Brown University Graduate School in student program administration, assessment and development. He earned his PhD from the Student Affairs in Higher Education Program at Miami University in Ohio, Shalhavit-Simcha Cohen is a multi-award-winning Musician and PhD Researcher and recipient Harvard University’s Bok Prize for Public Service.

Gender in Hasidism

Elliot Wolfson – Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara.