Invitation
24 - 27 July 2005
Westin River North Hotel, Chicago
320 North Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60610
Tel. (+1). 312.7441900, Fax +1. 312.5272650
The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ), anetwork of national organisations in 32 countries world-wide, together with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), the Council of Centres for Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJCR) and the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago invite your participation in a conference addressing and exploring facets of contemporary issues within an interreligious context.
It will be the first time in 25 years that the ICCJ will bring together in the USA people from Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
25 years ago in New York, the ICCJ created in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, dealt with The Battle for Human Rights in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Together, we have achieved much in the intervening years yet much still remains to be done in healing the wounds, the prejudices, the fears of our rapidly changing world. A world of changing demography, of population mass migrations, of changing boundaries physical as well as in attitudes, of mindless violence, a world searching for values.
Meeting in Chicago we are encouraged and inspired by the City’s history that 135 years ago witnessed the engineering feat of reversing the former north-eastern flow of Chicago River to its present south-western flow, thereby reshaping the City’s future. May the deliberations by so many engaged in combating today’s ills contribute to reverse our world’s malaise.
Fr Prof John T Pawlikowski
President
PROGRAMME -- ICCJ Chicago 2005
SUNDAY, July 24
| 14:00 - 17:00
| Registration at Westin River North
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| 16:00 - 18:00
| Editorial staff meeting www.jcrelations.net
| | 18:30
| Dinner at hotel
| | 19:40
| Busses leave for
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| 20:00
| Opening Plenary at Chicago Temple (United Methodist)
Keynote: Rev Dr. Samuel Kobia, General Secretary, World Council of Churches
Response: Rabbi David Rosen, American Jewish Committee
Presentation of Annual ICCJ International Sir Sigmund Sternberg Award to Dr. Mary Boys
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MONDAY, July 25th
| 7:15
| Denominational Prayers
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| 8:00
| Breakfast
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| 9:00
| Plenary Panel: Religion in American Life
Chair: Stanley Davis, Jr., National Conference for Community and Justice
Speakers: Dr. David Elcott; Advocate Azam Nizamuddin; Tom Roberts
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| 10: 30
| Coffee Break
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| 11:00
| Plenary Lecture: Religion in European Society
Speaker: Clifford Longley, former Editor, The Tablet
Respondent: Rev Katja Kriener
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| 12:30
| Lunch
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| 14:30
| Plenary Panel: Moving Towards Wholeness – Women and Religion in the Global World
Chair : Gunnel Borgegård, Vice President, ICCJ
Speakers: Mary Boys (USA); Mazhev Ahmed, USA; Judith Narrowe (Sweden)
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| 16:15
| Workshops
- Perspectives from Abroad on Religion in America
Henry Grunwald (England); Rev Patrick Desbois (France)
Moderator: Yuri Tabak (Russia)
- Religion and Public Life in South America
Bishop Luis del Castillo (Uruguay); Sr Gisa Fonseca (Brazil);
Rabbi Schmuel Szteinhendler (Chile)
- Religion and Public Life in Canada
Rev Dr. Karen Hamilton, CCJ Canada
- Religion and public life in Australia/New Zealand
Sr Marianne Dacy, nds, Australia
Major Peter Thorp, Salvation Army, New Zealand
- Latino-Jewish Relations
Fred Siegman and Patricia Mendoza, U.S. Latino-Jewish Dialogue
- Biomedical Issues: Jewish and Christian Perspectives
Rabbi Byron Sherwin; Dr. Thomas Nairn
Moderator: Dr. Franklin Sherman
- Embracing the whole – two biblical women’s testimonies – Hannah’s Song and Mary’s Magnificat
Mary Boys
Emily D. Soloff, Executive Director American Jewish Committee, Chicago Chapter
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| 18:30
| Busses leave for
Visit to Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
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| 19:30
| Dinner at Spertus
Speaker: Dr. Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University)
Liberation Theology and Multiculturalism: the Globalisation of Antisemitism
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TUESDAY, July 26th
| 7:00
| Catholic Mass
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| 7:45
| Breakfast
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| 8:30
| Plenary: Joint Text Study
Dr. Philip Cunningham (USA) and Rabbi Andrew Goldstein (England)
Rabbi Rachel Montagu (England)
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| 9:30
| Plenary Panel: NOSTRA AETATE at 40: Looking Towards the Future
Speakers: Rabbi Irving Greenberg and Rev Dr. John Pawlikowski
Chair: Dr. Eugene Fisher
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| 11:00
| Coffee Break
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| 11:30
| Workshops
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Religion in the Workplace: Emerging Issues – Exploring Responses
Dr. Georgette Bennett
- The Black Church – Its history and theology
Dr Homer Ashby; Dr B. Herbert Martin, Sr; Dr Julia M. Speller
Moderator: Dr Stanley L. Davis, Jr.
- From Historical Attitudes to Present-Day Realities --
Prof M’hammed Fantar (Tunisia); Malcolm Weisman(England); Malcolm Weisman, Esq (England)
- Theology of the Land in Judaism
Rabbi Eugene Korn (USA) and Dr. Edward Kessler (UK)
Moderator: Rabbi Ira Youdovin
- Teaching Jewish-Christian Relations
Sr. Mary Ellen Coombe (USA); Rabbi Rachel Montagu (England); Dr. Hyma Levin (USA)
Moderator: Yuri Tabak (Russia)
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| 12:45
| Lunch
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| 15:00
| Plenary Panel: The Continuing Challenge of Antisemitism
Dr. Michael Kotzin (USA); Prof Jerome Chanes (USA), Madeleine Cohen (France)
Chair: Dr. Victor Goldbloom
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| 16.30
| Annual General Meeting -- Friends and Sponsors of the Martin Buber House
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| 17:30
| Busses leave for
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| 17:45-18.00
| Public event at Chicago Yacht CLub
Welcome from City of Chicago
Cultural program
Presentation of Interfaith Gold Medallion “Peace Through Dialogue” to Rabbi Herman Schaalman and Dr. Victor Goldbloom
Reception
Evening Free -- Dinner on your own
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WEDNESDAY, July 27th
| 7:15
| Denominational Prayers
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| 8:00
| Breakfast
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| 9:00
| Workshops
- Reconciliation Efforts in Israel/Palestine
Rabbi Ron Kronish (Israel)
- Judaism and Religious Pluralism
Rabbi Gilbert Rosenthal
- Theological Issues in Jewish-Christian Relations
Dr. Martin Forward; Dr. Edward Kessler; Dr. Philip Cunningham
- The Union for Reform Judaism Program on Interreligious Relations
Judith Hertz and Rabbi David Sandmel
- Tensions in Christian-Jewish Relations
Rev Dr. Hans Ucko, Dr. David Elcott, Dr. Eugene Fisher
- Dialogue … Where next? A Young Leadership exploration
Debbie Young (UK); Suendam Birinci (Turkey); Lori Eisenberg (USA)
- We Are All Abraham’s Children
Irvin J. Borowsky
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| 10:30
| Coffee Break
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| 11:00
| Plenary Panel: The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations
Rabbi Mark Winer; Debbie Young; Dr. Philip Cunningham
Chair: Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granator
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| 12:30
| Closing Lunch
Chair: Fr Prof. Dr John T. Pawlikowski
Speaker: Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and Vice President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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| 15:00
| ICCJ Annual General Meeting
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| 18:30
| Executive Board dinner and meeting
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Conference working language: English
Costs
Conference fee:
US $150 per person
Lodging and Full Board for three nights
US $650 if paid by 1st June
Otherwise
US $700
For fourth night additional
US $120
Day participants
Sunday opening event
No charge
Monday and Tuesday
US $70 per person including meals and coffee breaks
Wednesday
US $40 per person including meals and coffee breakTo reserve your place, please fill in and return the enclosed registration form to:
International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ)
P.O. Box 11 29
D – 64629 Heppenheim, Germany
Tel. +49.6252.93120, Fax: +49.6252.68331
E-mail: info@iccj-buberhouse.de
Registration deadline: 20 June 2005
The ICCJ Women’s Conference
Moving towards wholeness –
Women and Religion in the Global World
The ICCJ Women's Conference, originally planned for 21-24 July 2005 to take place in Chicago has been postponed until 2006 in Vienna.
There will however be a plenary session at the main conference in the afternoon of Monday 25 July on the subject of "Moving Towards Wholeness - Women and Religion in the Global World". Dr. Mary Boys, Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, a leading Catholic scholar in the field of theology and history of Jewish-Christian relations and the recipient of the 2005 ICCJ International Sir Sigmund Sternberg Award will be among the speakers.
American Airlines (AA) are official conference carrier. They offer a discount of 5% on economy/coach class fares and a discount of 10% on first class fares for bookings to Chicago between 7 July and 3 August 2005 for conference participants. When booking you need to quote authorisation code: A8075AO. The discounts apply for flight also on other One World Airlines as long as an American Airlines Codeshare ticket is booked under an American Airlines flight number.
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