The Inter Faith Week Lecture 2024

This talk considers why religious Jews and Muslims in Israel/Palestine have broadly avoided the mainstream liberal peace camp. It also discusses what religious Jewish groups do differently when they organize their own peace initiatives. This distinction is revealing and speaks to divergent understandings of what peace looks like and how to get there.

Speaker

Erica Weiss is a Professor of Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on political anthropology, liberalism and its discontents, and living with difference. She has spent a decade conducting research with religious peace initiatives in Israel/Palestine. In particular she is interested in how the understanding of peace and coexistence of these initiatives differ from that of the secular Israeli peace camp. She is conducting an ERC funded project entitled The Praxis of Coexistence which takes an inductive and comparative approach to the challenges of living with ethnic and religious difference.

Event information

This event will be held in-person and online.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus & Online via Zoom, Highfield Road, Southampton, United Kingdom