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PUBLIC LECTURES

2017: Peace, Trauma, and Religion in the Palestine-Israel Conflict

Sessions and speakers

4 APRIL: PEACE, TRAUMA AND RELIGION IN THE CONFLICT OF PALESTINE-ISRAEL

 

Insights from the Excursion of VU-Students of the Master Specialization on Peace, Trauma, and Religion

 

Prof. Dr Fernando Enns and Students

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Prof. Dr Fernando Enns holds the Chair for Peace Theology and Ethics at the VU University’s Faculty of Theology and is the director of the Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Peace & Justice Studies.

11 APRIL: ZIONISM AND ITS EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN ROOTS

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Dr Janneke Stegeman

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Dr Janneke Stegeman was declared Theologian of the Year in 2016. She is involved with the debate centre De Nieuwe Liefde Amsterdam. She obtained her doctorate with her dissertation Decolonizing Jeremiah: Narratives, Conflict, and Identity in Religious Tradition (2014).

18 APRIL: ECUMENICAL ACCOMPANYMENT WITH THE PEOPLES OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

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Ds Han Cuperus

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Ds Han Cuperus is a pastor for the Mennonite Churches in Rotterdam and Dordrecht. He worked in Palestine-Israel with the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

2 MAY: RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF THE MIDDLE-EAST CONFLICT

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Theological and Historical Perspectives

 

Dr Yaser Ellethy

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Dr Yasser Ellethy teaches Quran and Hadith Studies  at the VU University’s Faculty of Theology and is involved in the Center for Islamic Theology.

4 MAY: WHO ARE THE PEOPLE OF GOD?

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A Comparative Theological Reading of the Story of Jacob and Esau

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Prof. Dr Marianne Moyaert

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Prof. Dr Marianne Moyaert holds the Chair for Comparative Theology and Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue at the VU University’s Faculty of Theology.

9 MAY: VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF OCCUPATION

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A Christian-Palestine Perspective

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Viola Raheb, University Assistant Mag.

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Viola Raheb works at the University of Vienna. A member of numerous organisations and committees on intercultural and interreligious dialogue, she has conducted various research projects, including the comparative study Political Awareness and Political Participation of Palestinian Women.

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