Dr Thea Gomelauri - Oxford Talks

Dr Thea Gomelauri

Oxford Interfaith Forum

https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/people/thea-gomelauri

Events this person is speaking at:

Saturday 10 February 2024

14:00 - Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Education and Peacebuilding Lecture 'Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders'
Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University), Professor Azza Karam (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 12 October 2023

17:00 - Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 2 December 2024

18:00 - Maryam – The Muslim Mary: A Symbol of Devotion, Virtue and Hope
Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan (Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies), Professor Rita George-Tvrtković (Benedictine University)

Thursday 20 February 2025

18:00 - Book Talk: Seeking the Hiding God
Prof Arnold M. Eisen (Chancellor Emeritus, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA), Revd Prof Serene Jones (President, Union Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Sam S.B. Shonkoff (Graduate Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Book Launch

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 12 October 2023

17:00 - Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 9 November 2023

18:00 - Book Launch_Making Sense of “GOD”: What God-Talk Means and Does
Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon (OCHJS), Revd Dr John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 20 November 2023

17:00 - The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
Dr Lisa Agaiby (University of Divinity, Australia), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 January 2024

18:00 - Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice
Professor Najeeba Syeed (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 January 2024

17:00 - Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
Professor Alberto Rigolio (Durham University, UK), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 18 January 2024

18:00 - Psalm 109: The Prayer No One Wants
Revd Dr David Firth (Trinity College, Bristol), Revd Dr Eric Sarwar (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 29 January 2024

18:00 - The Talmud among Victorian Christians: Polemics and Humanism in Interfaith Encounters
Prof Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University, USA)
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 8 February 2024

18:00 - Christian Images and Jewish Desecrators: The History of the Allegation in Manuscript Illustrations
Dr Katherine Aron-Beller (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Saturday 10 February 2024

14:00 - Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Education and Peacebuilding Lecture 'Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders'
Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University), Professor Azza Karam (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 19 February 2024

17:00 - Setting the Stage: The Rose of Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody
Prof Laura Lieber (Duke Univeristy, USA)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 22 February 2024

18:00 - Psalm 40 and Messiness of Prayer
Prof Alan Cooper (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University, USA)
PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 26 February 2024

18:00 - Poetry Book Launch: So Many Things Are Yours, by Poet Admiel Kosman
Prof Admiel Kosman (Potsdam University, Germany), Prof Adriana X Jacobs (University of Oxford), Dr Lisa Katz (Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem, Israel), Dr Tamar Hess (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
ART in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 4 March 2024

18:00 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University, USA)
MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 7 March 2024

17:00 - The Miracle of Pilgrimage: A Coptic Journey to the Holy Land During the Ottoman Period
Professor Febe Armanious (Middlebury College, USA)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 8 April 2024

18:00 - When Salafi Muslims Meet Evangelical Christians: A Hopeful Dispatch from the United States
Dr Matthew Taylor (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 April 2024

18:00 - The Ties That Bond Us: Differences of Sacred Values in Interfaith Organizing
Revd Dr Aaron Stauffer (Vanderbilt Divinity School), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 15 April 2024

18:00 - Book Launch: Judaism Is about Love
Rabbi Dr Shai Held (Hadar Institute), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford), Prof Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Professor Zev Harvey (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 18 June 2024

18:00 - Beyond Exegesis: Psalms in the Cultures of Ancient Jews and Early Christians
Prof AJ Berkovitz (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Prof Anna Sapir Abulafia (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 24 June 2024

17:00 - Who was Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of God? A Byzantine hagiographical narrative by the ninth-century Monk Epiphanio
Professor Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 11 September 2024

18:00 - BOOK TALK: Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
Professor Jacob L. Wright (Emory University, Candler School of Theology), Professor John Barton (University of Oxford)
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 24 September 2024

Wednesday 9 October 2024

18:00 - BOOK TALK: God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam
Professor Salih Sayilgan (Georgetown University), Dr Peter Admirand (Dublin City University), Prof Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 4 November 2024

18:00 - Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Syed Atif Rizwan (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Book Launch

Monday 11 November 2024

18:00 - Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention
Professor Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (Columbia University)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 2 December 2024

18:00 - Maryam – The Muslim Mary: A Symbol of Devotion, Virtue and Hope
Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan (Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies), Professor Rita George-Tvrtković (Benedictine University)

Monday 9 December 2024

18:00 - Was Genesis 1 Dependent on Psalm 104?
John Day (Lady Margaret Hall), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 13 February 2025

18:00 - Psalm 136: Hesed as Praxis
Dr Jodi Porter (Acadia Divinity College), Revd Dr Jason Byassee (Oxford Interfaith forum)
PSALMS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 20 February 2025

18:00 - Book Talk: Seeking the Hiding God
Prof Arnold M. Eisen (Chancellor Emeritus, Jewish Theological Seminary, USA), Revd Prof Serene Jones (President, Union Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Sam S.B. Shonkoff (Graduate Theological Seminary, USA), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
Book Launch

Monday 24 February 2025

18:00 - The Paradox of Religion as Peace-Maker and Contributor to Violence
Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Professor Anantanand Rambachan (St Olaf College)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts