The Barer Lecture Series with Jessica Jackley: Spring 2013
DATES ANNOUNCED
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Changing African Lives?
A Conversation with Jessica Jackley and Coders4Africa.
Feb 20, 7pm Learning Center Rm 28 (LC28)
Kiva.org and New Directions in Social Entrepreneurship
April 4, 7pm Learning Center Rm 28 (LC28)
Drew University CRCC Secures Carnegie Corporation Grant
Drew University’s Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict will host its first Summer Institute on Religion and Conflict Transformation in June 2013 thanks to a $300,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Carnegie Corporation grant provides partial support for a three-year pilot of the Drew Summer Institutes.
Wallerstein Distinguished Visiting Scholars
The Wallerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2012-13 is Reza Aslan, author of the best best-selling books, No god, but God, and How to Win a Cosmic War. Aslan frequently appears on nationally broadcast television and radio programs such as: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, Anderson Cooper 360, and is a contributing editor for The Daily Beast.
Barer Visiting Fellow
Jessica Jackley is the Barer Visiting Fellow at Drew’s CRCC. Jackley graduated from Bucknell University and earned her MBA from Stanford. Inspired by her experiences on an undergraduate study abroad program in Uganda, Jackley conceived and co-found KIVA, a pioneering on-line micro-lending site that now facilitates nearly $350 million in micro-loans annually from 800,000 individual lenders to empower over a million people in 220 countries around the world by allowing them to improve their lives through entrepreneurship.
The Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict (CRCC) focuses critical attention on the complex ways in which cultures and religions interact in moments of crisis and conflict. We encourage scholarly understanding and conversation about the most problematic, and often tragic, intersections where religions and cultures meet.