Building Bridges Seminar: Humanity in Context, Christian and Muslim perspectives on being human

Date:	4 Dec 2007
Location:	University Hall Auditorium, Level 2, Lee Kong Chian Wing, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077

Time:

8.30am - 4.30pm

 

• Principal Investigator: A/P Syed Farid Alatas
• Speakers: Professor Azizan Baharuddin, Department of Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya; Professor Vincent Cornell, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; The Ven. Michael Ipgrave,  Archdeacon of Southwark, London; Professor Michael Northcott, Associate Rector at St James, Leith, and Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral; Professor Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at Glasgow University in Scotland; Dr. Ng Kam Weng, Director of the Kairos Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Department of Malay Studies (NUS), Religion Research Cluster (NUS) and University Scholar's programme (NUS) co-hosted the 6th Building Bridges Seminar. This seminar was convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Willams and consisted of a series of talks on the following themes:

1) “Being human - religious perspectives” by Dr Ng Kam Weng and Professor Mona Siddiqui

2) “Living with difference” by The Ven. Michael Ipgrave and Professor Vincent Cornell

3) “Guardians of the Environment” by Professor Michael Northcott and Professor Azizan Baharuddin