Religious leaders from across the state gathered at USC yesterday to help focus the work of a new civic collaboration called California Faith Action. The event, titled "Interfaith Leadership for the NEXT California," was co-sponsored by CRCC and the Knight...
American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute Co-founder and Director Nadia Roumani will be presenting at Voice After Exit: Diaspora Advocacy Seminar on February 15 in Washington, D.C. The event, seventh in the USAID Diaspora Engagement mini-series, will be held at the...
Today, Ashis Nandy, renowned public intellectual and social theorist, will deliver the annual lecture for the Interdisciplinary Research Group of the CRCC at 5 p.m., with a book signing to follow at 6:30 p.m. A reception will kickoff the evening...
CRCC Senior Fellows Bruce Phillips and Diane Winston will speak at "Looking for Judaism in Unconventional Places," a symposium held by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies on February 12-13. This conference will examine the significance of the transformations for...
Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray is among many distinguished speakers at From the Ashes: The 1992 Civil Unrest and the Rise of Social Movement Organizing event on Thursday, April 26th at the USC Davidson Conference Center The all-day event, co-sponsored by...
CRCC Managing Director Brie Loskota delivered the following as her concluding keynote address at the 8th Annual American Studies Network Conference at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China, in September. Download "Religion's Uneasy Place." (PDF) ABSTRACT Religious freedom, a hallmark...
The City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission hosted an important public forum Oct. 24th at Loyola Marymount University. The dialogue focused on faith-based efforts around poverty and homelessness as part of the city’s observance of Homelessness Awareness month....
CRCC Managing Director Brie Loskota and USC Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni spoke at the sixth annual Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy, held by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School from July 17 to July...
CRCC Managing Director Brie Loskota moderated a panel at the Religious Pluralism Public Forum, sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission last Wednesday at the Van Nuys City Hall Chambers. Panelists included: Imam Jihad Turk, Religious Director...
On Friday, May 6, 2011, the Brehm Center at Fuller Theological Seminary presentedLiving Images: the Visual Culture of Islam and Buddhism in Los Angeles. The symposium included a paper by William Dyrness, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological...
Brie Loskota delivered remarks at a Faith and Diplomacy Briefing in Washington, D.C. on April 11, 2011. The event was sponsored by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Ms. Loskota's remarks follow below. I was in Thailand in September on...
The Great Commandment: Theology & Social Science in Dialogue was a two-day seminar held Oct. 22-23, 2010 at Vanguard University sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and co-hosted by the Flame of Love Research Project (www.godlyloveproject.org) focusing on what the...