Public Lecture: Breaking Barriers: Jews, Christians and Muslims Reading Each Other's Scriptures
A distinguished philosopher – and Director of the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute – Robert Gibbs will visit Memorial University to deliver a Public Lecture on Thursday evening November 1 – Breaking Barriers: Jews, Christians and Muslims Reading Each Other's Scriptures. Followed by audience discussion and reception. Engineering Lecture Theatre, EN 2006. Free parking available in Lot 16.
Free Public Lecture by University Of Toronto Philosopher Robert Gibbs
Breaking Barriers: Jews, Christians and Muslims
Reading Each Other's Scriptures
A distinguished philosopher – and Director of the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute – Robert Gibbs will visit Memorial University to deliver a Public Lecture on Thursday evening November 1: Breaking Barriers: Jews, Christians and Muslims Reading Each Other's Scriptures
The lecture, second in the Jewish Community Havura Public Lecture Series on "Walls and Borders", will be cosponsored by the Havura and the Philosophy Department.
PUBLIC LECTURE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
8 P.M.
Engineering Lecture Theatre, EN 2006
Free parking available in Lot 16
Followed by audience discussion and a reception
ALL ARE WELCOME
Dr. Gibbs is a founding member of a Scriptural Reasoning group, where Jews, Christians, and Muslims read each other’s religious texts together in small groups. In his lecture, he will explore the hopes that arise in such close reading together.
Dr. Gibbs, who holds degrees from Yale and the University of Toronto, is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1992) and Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities (2000). His research interests include Jewish thought, German idealism, French post-modern literary theory, social theory, philosophy of law, existentialism, pragmatism, and the phenomenological tradition.
The first lecture in the Jewish Community Havura Public Lecture Series was delivered by Dr. Noreen Golfman and dealt with Sacha Trudeau's film The Fence, about Israeli-Palestinian relations. The third lecture in the series, scheduled for January, will be delivered by Dr. Robert Sweeny on the relations between successive waves of immigrants.During his visit to Memorial, Dr. Gibbs will also address a Philosophy Colloquium on Thursday afternoon November 1 and a Humanities class Friday afternoon November 2.
(Poster for event in PDF for printing)
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