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We are pleased to announce this event that was rescheduled:
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE ASSOCIATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE KAUFMAN INTERFAITH
INSTITUTE AND GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
INVITE YOU TO THE BIANNUAL RABBI PHILIP SIGAL MEMORIAL
LECTURE ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2011 AT 7PM.
THIS YEAR’S GUEST LECTURER IS DR. DOUGLAS KINDSCHI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
KAUFMAN
INTERFAITH INSTITUTE, HOUSED AT GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY.
It will take place at Loosemore Auditorium on the downtown campus of GVSU.
The title of Dr. Kindschi’s talk is “From Tolerance to Holy Envy: The Interfaith
Agenda.”
Admission is free.
Dr. Douglas Kindschi, now in his 35th year at Grand Valley State University,
served in the position of dean for 28 of those years. He is currently
University Professor of
Mathematics and Philosophy and the Director of the Kaufman Interfaith Institute.
While Dean of Science he was responsible for 14 departments including the basic
sciences, mathematics, computer science, the School of Engineering, the School
of Health Professions and the Water Resources Research Institute. These
departments included over 300 faculty and staff, and were responsible for over
35% of the course offerings to the university’s 23,000 students.Douglas Kindschi
received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Houghton College in New York,
did graduate study at the Divinity School, University of Chicago. He received
his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His major interest in mathematics was in abstract algebra
and he also completed a minor in philosophy as a part of graduate study.
Kindschi’s interest in science and religion goes back to his time in graduate
school at Wisconsin where he coordinated a faculty and student discussion group
on the topic for two years. At Grand Valley State University he began a faculty
science and religion discussion group that is now in its 13th year and developed
a course which received a Templeton Course Award. He also received a Metanexus
grant to establish the Local Society Initiative called the Grand Dialogue in
Science and Religion for the Greater Grand Rapids Area. While a graduate student
at the University of Chicago Divinity School he first encountered the interfaith
dialogue. From 2006 through 2009 he served as the Grand Valley State University
president’s office representative to the Kaufman Interfaith Institute and
coordinated the dialogues. In January, 2010, he was appointed as the Director
of the Institute.
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