January 16, 2020 – Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC and the Michigan Muslim Community Council will host its 5th Annual “A Shared Future” Lecture Series with Wayne State University Professors Howard Lupovitch and Saeed Khan. This year’s topic is “Are We Religiously Free in America?”
“A Shared Future” will consist of three presentations all beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a dessert reception:
- Wednesday, February
12,
Muslim Unity Center (1830 Square Lake Rd.) in Bloomfield Hills
- Topic: The navigation and implementation of Halacha and Sharia in the United States
- Wednesday,
February 19,
Congregation Beth Ahm (5075 West Maple Rd.) in West Bloomfield
- Topic: Attitudes and applications of separation of religion and state
- Wednesday,
February 26
at Wayne State University, David Adamany Undergraduate Library (5150 Anthony
Wayne Dr.) in Detroit
- Topic: Attitudes toward the First Amendment as they pertain to constructive debate and civil discourse.
Established in 2014, “A Shared Future” is an interfaith dialogue series which unites members of the Jewish and Muslim communities to learn together and build relationships. There is no charge to attend the program for which advance registration is required. It can be completed at sharedfuturereligiousfreedom.eventbrite.com.
Howard Lupovitch is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University. He received a Ph.D. in Jewish History from Columbia University and has taught at Cornell University, Colby College, the University of Western Ontario and University of Michigan, where he was also a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies. A published author, Professor Lupovitch is the 2009 winner of the Bernard L. Maas Prize for Achievement in Jewish Culture and Continuity in the Area of Humanities.
Saeed A. Khan works in the University’s Department of History and is a lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies, where he teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Islamic Civilizations and History of Islamic Political Thought. A Research Fellow at Wayne State University’s Center for the Study of Citizenship, he also is an Adjunct Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, where he co-teaches a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at Wayne State University; Thomas M. Cooley Law School, JD.
Professor Khan has served as a consultant to the US-Arab Economic Forum and has founded the Center for the Study of Trans-Atlantic Diasporas, a think tank and policy center examining and comparing the condition of ethnic immigrant groups in North America and Europe, consulting the US and UK governments on their respective Muslim communities.
For additional information, contact Corey Young, young@jfmd.org.
A Shared Future is generously sponsored by the Ravitz Foundation.