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Spring 2026 Lecture

Islamic medical ethics, as practiced and as studied, is overwhelmingly focused on men: men's bodies, men's ideas, men's texts. Remedying this gap with qualitative interviews, Zahra Ayubi (Dartmouth College) discusses Muslim women's experiences and their approaches to decisions about abortion and end of life care.

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Lifegiving Hope: Virtue and Things that Matter

Kevin Hector (PhD, Princeton) is an expert in theology and the author of Theology Without Metaphysics and The Theological Promise of Modernism: Faith and the Conditions of Mineness. Additionally, Hector’s research is part of a collaborative grant, “ “Collaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology,” funded by the Templeton Foundation. The Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of Theology and of the Philosophy […]

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