CSE Lecture Explores Faith-Based Responses to Migration Challenges
On November 3, 2021, the Center for the Study of Europe (CSE), an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a webinar exploring faith-based responses to the challenges of migration.
The event – organized in collaboration with BU’s Center for Latin American Studies, the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human trafficking (FMHT), and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) – featured David Sulewski, a PhD candidate in global governance & human security at UMass Boston; Shai Dromi, Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University; Tanya B. Schwarz, Executive Director of Pi Sigma Alpha; Lauren Turek, Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University in Texas; and Erin Wilson, Associate Professor of Global Politics and Religion at the University of Groningen. Kaija Schilde, Pardee School Associate Professor of International Relations and Acting CSE Director, provided opening remarks.
The speakers discussed the role of faith-based actors in the areas of forced migration and humanitarian issues, ways in which religion offers both motivation and resources to overcome the limits of state sovereignty, as well as how religion and politics intersect to address migrant crises.
A recording of the event can be viewed below.
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