{"id":56964,"date":"2024-11-30T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=56964"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:02:26","slug":"busth-hosts-fall-2024-bi-annual-lowell-lecture-simulating-religious-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/busth-hosts-fall-2024-bi-annual-lowell-lecture-simulating-religious-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSTH Hosts Fall 2024 Bi-Annual Lowell Lecture: Simulating Religious Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57053\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2024\/11\/Simulating-Religious-Violence-Premiere-1135-WEB-636x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"401\" class=\"wp-image-57053 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2024\/11\/Simulating-Religious-Violence-Premiere-1135-WEB-636x401.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2024\/11\/Simulating-Religious-Violence-Premiere-1135-WEB-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2024\/11\/Simulating-Religious-Violence-Premiere-1135-WEB.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Wesley Wildman asks questions of the panel after the screening of &#8220;Simulating Religious Violence&#8221; during the Lowell Lecture event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>On November 19, 2024, the Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) with the generous support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Institute<\/a> was proud to sponsor the bi-annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/alumni\/alum-events\/annual-lowell-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Lecture<\/a> in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston University Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This semester&#8217;s lecture featured the North American Premiere of\u00a0<\/span><em>Simulating Religious Violence<\/em><span>, a powerful film that takes viewers behind the scenes of a three-year project linking computer scientists and religion scholars as they harness the power of computer simulation and modeling to explore solutions for global conflicts rooted in religious violence. The event began with a welcome reception, followed by the film premiere introduced by Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/g-sujin-pak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G. Sujin Pak<\/a>, and culminated with an expert panel moderated by Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics, and of Computing and Data Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/wesley-j-wildman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Wildman<\/a>. Panelists included BUSTH Clinical Assistant Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d78f6647c7dea778adc7ce498&amp;id=9dbf4acb49&amp;e=8479fda3c0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d78f6647c7dea778adc7ce498&amp;id=9dbf4acb49&amp;e=8479fda3c0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James McCarty<\/a>, who gave closing remarks. Rounding out the panel were Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Social Planning University of Agder <a href=\"https:\/\/leronshultsblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">F. LeRon Shults<\/a>, and Boston University CAS Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/yair-lior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yair Lior.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer of the film below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-p1BEuMXMyI?si=9uC3E3XjHbQkyNX9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 19, 2024, the Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) with the generous support of the Lowell Institute was proud to sponsor the bi-annual Lowell Lecture in collaboration with the Boston University Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences.\u00a0 This semester&#8217;s lecture featured the North American Premiere of\u00a0Simulating Religious Violence, a powerful film that takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,201,203],"tags":[301,398,184,331,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57088,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964\/revisions\/57088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}