Events 2009 - 2010

HIND MAKKI, Outreach Education and Training Associate with the Interfaith Youth Core, will give a presentation entitled, Interfaith Cooperation in a Time of Uncertainty.  This will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 7pm in Tarbutton Theater.  Hind received her BA in International Relations, focusing on Global Security and Diplomacy, from Brown University. In her native Chicago, she worked extensively within the Muslim community on matters regarding civic integration into American society, interfaith dialogue, education and youth leadership development, and is currently a 2008-2009 Fellow of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute. She sits on the board of the Southwest Interfaith Team (SWIFT), representing the Orland Park Prayer Center, where she serves on the Youth Leadership Development and Outreach committees. She has also led youth development and civic engagement sessions in national Muslim and Arab American conferences since 2001.  In the summer of 2007, Hind joined the Interfaith Youth Core as a Program Associate in the Outreach Education and Training program area, traveling to college campuses, congregations and conferences in the United States and Western Europe, offering presentations and trainings on promoting religious pluralism, effective interfaith service-learning and meaningful interfaith dialogues.

ANN WRIGHT, will speak at Oxford College on October 5, 2009 at 8pm in Williams Hall on the "U.S. Policy in Afghanistan." Wright, one of three State Department officials who resigned in 2003 to protest the Iraq invasion and, since then, is one of the peace movement's most powerful voices.  Prior to her resignation from the U. S. State Department, Ms. Wright served 35 years in the Army and diplomatic corps, retiring as a colonel and served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban.   Ann Wright's book Dissent: Voices of Conscience--Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq was published in 2008.

JOHN KELSAY, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Research Professor, Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion, Bristol Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Florida State University, will speak at Oxford College of Emory University in the Spring 2010. Dr. Kelsay is a leading religious ethics scholar who focuses on Islamic and Christian traditions.

THE MERIDIAN CHORALE, WITH DR. STEVEN DARSEY AS MUSIC DIRECTOR in a unique advent service on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 4 p.m. in the Old Church at Oxford.  This Southern Folk Advent service is based on folk hymns from the historic Sacred Harp tune book, compiled in Georgia in 1844.