Podcasts about contending modernities

Episode Topic: Pilgrimage in the Global Middles Ages: Hospitality and Encounter Join the Medieval Institute and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion for the first in our series on pilgrimage. Why did medieval people go on pilgrimage, how did they travel, and what resources did they need while on the road? Pilgrimage in the Global Middle Ages: Hospitality and Encounter will examine medieval social institutions that supported pilgrims in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Chinese Buddhist traditions. Panelists will include Notre Dame Professors Robin Jensen (Theology), Mun'im Sirry (Theology) and Alexander Hsu (Keough School). They will compare different cultural provisions for hospitality, pilgrims' experience of encounter along the way, and the sacred art of shrines and holy places. This session will be the first in a series of spring-semester events exploring the practice of pilgrimage, both historically across faith traditions and in present-day work for social justice.Featured Speakers:Annie Killian, OP, Ph.D. is a Dominican Sister of Peace and the Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre DameAlexander Hsu serves as assistant teaching professor for the Ansari Institute and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre DameRobin Jensen is the Patrick O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre DameMun'im Sirry is assistant professor of theology with additional responsibilities for the Contending Modernities research projectRead this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/ac5938.This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation. Thanks for listening! The ThinkND Podcast is brought to you by ThinkND, the University of Notre Dame's online learning community. We connect you with videos, podcasts, articles, courses, and other resources to inspire minds and spark conversations on topics that matter to you — everything from faith and politics, to science, technology, and your career. Learn more about ThinkND and register for upcoming live events at think.nd.edu. Join our LinkedIn community for updates, episode clips, and more.

In this episode, Contending Modernities editor and writer Josh Lupo and Professor Atalia Omer, Co-Director of Contending Modernities, interview three contributors to their edited volume, Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism. The volume explores distinct moments in time across various geopolitical settings when solidarity failed to be realized between marginalized communities because of differences of race, nationalism, religion, and/or ethnicity. These contributions are intended to open up paths for imagining new forms of solidarity now and in the future.    In conversation with Ruth Carmi (Ph.D. '23), the editors discuss the reasons why alliances between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians have been so difficult to achieve, in spite of both groups' marginalization by the Israeli government. With Brenna Moore, they reflect upon Black Catholic attempts to create transnational partnerships that challenged the White Protestant status quo in early twentieth-century geopolitics. Finally, with Melani McAlister, they consider the role of the literary imagination in helping us contemplate paths beyond the trappings of our current political order.   In each of these exchanges, the authors also reflect on their findings in light of the current political moment, rather it be in the recent challenges to the authority of the supreme court in Israel, the Black Lives Matter protests of Summer 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, or in the growing calls to substantively address the threat of climate change. What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis that refuses to treat any marker of identity or belonging as siloed off from others. 

In this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah talk with Anthony Paul Smith about his Contending Modernities piece, Provincializing Theodicy. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter, Fanon, Laruelle, and others, Smith discusses the relationship between this piece and his forthcoming work on theodicy, the function of theodicy in contemporary culture, and theodicy and state of the university.

In this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah talk with Anthony Paul Smith about his Contending Modernities piece, Provincializing Theodicy. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter, Fanon, Laruelle, and others, Smith discusses the relationship between this piece and his forthcoming work on theodicy, the function of theodicy in contemporary culture, and theodicy and state of the university.

Josh Lupo, the Content Writer and Editor for the Contending Modernities Initiative and Classroom Coordinator for Madrasa Discourses, talks with Contending Modernities co-directors Atalia Omer and Ebrahim Moosa about the Inititaive's focus on decoloniality. Read all blog posts and articles in the decolonial thought series at contendingmodernities.nd.edu.

Faculty members associated with the Madrasa Discourses project at the Kroc Institute discuss the program's unique efforts to engage madrasa scholars in conversations about religion, society and epistemology. Joshua Lupo, Madrasa Discourses classroom coordinator, moderates a conversation with Ebrahim Moosa, primary investigator for Madrasa Discourses, Mahan Mirza, Madrasa Discourses Advisor, Waris Mazhari, faculty member in India, and Ammar Khan Nasir, faculty member in Pakistan. The Madrasa Discourses project is part of the Contending Modernities initiative, which is a joint effort of the Kroc Institute and the Keough School of Global Affairs.

How do we define death? How have different Islamic scholars approached organ donation? “The Ethics Debate” features patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood. The panel will debate whether Sara’s parents should allow their daughter to be an organ donor, in light of Islamic tradition. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

What do religious scholars and ethicists have to say about gene editing? What worries them? Listen in to this conversation with panelists Deborah Blum (MIT), Michael Fitzgerald (Boston Globe), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame), and Adil Najam (Boston University), and expert witnesses Maura Ryan (University of Notre Dame), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Andrea Vicini (Boston College). Science journalist Ehsan Masood moderates. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

How do we define death? How have different Islamic scholars approached organ donation? “The Ethics Debate” features patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood. The panel will debate whether Sara’s parents should allow their daughter to be an organ donor, in light of Islamic tradition. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Emmanuel Katongole & Graham Hill discuss Rwanda and the church’s ministry of peacemaking and reconciliation. Rwanda is a mirror to the church. They discuss identity, lament, healing, reconciliation, hope, and forgiveness. The GlobalChurch Project, Episode 16.“Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness. But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.”Katongole’s research interests focus on politics and violence in Africa, the theology of reconciliation, and Catholicism in the global South.He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain and a diploma in theology and religious studies from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.Katongole, a Catholic priest ordained by the Archdiocese of Kampala, has served as associate professor of theology and world Christianity at Duke University, where he was the founding co-director of the Duke Divinity School’s Center for Reconciliation.He is the author of books on the Christian social imagination, the crisis of faith following the genocide in Rwanda, and Christian approaches to justice, peace, and reconciliation. His most recent book is The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa (Eerdmans, 2010).Professor Katongole’s other books include Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda, (Zondervan, 2009), A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination (University of Scranton Press, 2005), African Theology Today (University of Scranton Press, 2002), and Beyond Universal Reason: The Relation Between Religion and Ethics in the Work of Stanley Hauerwas (Notre Dame Press, 2000).As a major part of his research at the Kroc Institute, Katongole will contribute to Contending Modernities, a cross-cultural research and education initiative examining Catholic, Muslim, and secular forces in the modern world.

What do religious scholars and ethicists have to say about gene editing? What worries them? Listen in to the conversation with panelists Deborah Blum (MIT), Michael Fitzgerald (Boston Globe), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame), and Adil Najam (Boston University) and expert witnesses Maura Ryan (University of Notre Dame), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Andrea Vicini (Boston College). Science journalist Ehsan Masood moderates. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.