Islam, Citizenship, and Religious Liberty with Hamza Yusuf

America was founded in part on the concept of religious freedom. Many today consider Muslims a grave threat to that founding principle. Is Islam incompatible with the free exercise of religion? Grasp the concepts, understand the propositions, then you be the judge.

Hamza Yusuf will offer a lecture and then engage in a dialogue with Professor Farid Senzai of the Political Science Department (SCU) and the audience.  Coffee/tea/water and light snacks will be provided.

Please register here.

Hamza Yusuf is president, co-founder, and senior faculty member at Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States.  He is also an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in Islamic Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies at Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union. Yusuf serves as a member of the board of advisors of George Russell’s One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative that promotes pluralism and inclusion in America. In addition, he serves as vice-president for the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, which was founded and is currently presided over by Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, one of the top jurists and masters of Islamic sciences in the world. Most recently, Yusuf contributed to the writing of the Marrakesh Declaration (2016) in Morocco affirming the rights of religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries, and met with Pope Francis in Rome to discuss the implications of this declaration.

Ethical Eating

For those of you who may not have been able to attend the Interreligious Leaders Forum session last week on “What Our Religious Traditions Tell Us about the Food We Do—and Don’t—Eat,” here is a video of the presentations.

The event was co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Business Ethics at Santa Clara University, and featured a panel that included Ven JianYing, Sunnyvale Zen Center; Dr. Inder Mohan SIngh, San Jose Gurdwara; Madhulika Singh, PreetiRang Sanctuary; and Deven Shah, Jain Center. The panel was moderated by Dr. Sarah Robinson.

 

 

Leadership Crises in Silicon Valley: A Way Forward

Bannan Institute Spring 2015: Leadership and the Intellectual Life
Tradition, Innovation, and Transformation

Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center, Santa Clara University
Ann Gregg Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center

Silicon Valley life presents significant challenges to individual and organizational leadership.  In this working lunch, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University will reflect on the ten most significant challenges facing Silicon Valley leaders today and consider how resources within the Ignatian tradition might provide an innovative, transformative way forward.

Co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

More information and RSVP at: www.scu.edu/ic/bannan/2014-15/spring.cfm?b=474&c=20191

Interreligious Leaders Forum: Ethical Eating

The May forum will be held in conjunction with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. An interfaith panel will explore the ethics of food: what we eat, how we raise and grow it, and the impact on others and the world.

Save the date and plan to be with us.

RSVP to rsvp@sivicouncil.org.