By Mia McCauley, Student Intern How would you want to be cared for when you’re sick? How can doctors balance scientific advancement with human-centered and interfaith-informed care? This February, nearly 200 UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, and community members sought to answer pressing bioethical questions over two days of thoughtful dialogue across traditions. The conference, hosted …
By Mia McCauley, Student Intern As science continues to advance, the moral questions surrounding medicine have never been more significant. This February, UW-Madison students seek to answer these questions through a two-day bioethics conference. The conference brings together students, clinicians, religious leaders, and bioethicists to examine how faith, spiritual traditions, and secular ethics shape health …
UW’s Campus and Visitor Relations (CaVR) unit, headed by Dr. Kirstin DeMartino, trains a student staff of over 150 to lead tours of campus each year. For the first time this year, that training included a breakout session for student tour guides who want to learn about religious and spiritual life around campus, entitled “Faith …
On Friday, August 15, Program Coordinator Talia Ivry received word from Augsburg University that the Center for Interfaith Dialogue staff and student leaders were selected as a recipient of Augsburg’s Emerging Muslim Bridgebuilding Leaders Engaging the Midwest (EMBLEM) Grant to underwrite an interfaith bioethics conference in spring of 2026. The conference, set for February, will …
A year ago today, if you wanted to find a room to pray, reflect, or meditate on campus, you may have consulted the campus map of prayer and reflection spaces. Unfortunately, due to the constant evolution of campus buildings, the map included rooms that no longer existed, listed incorrect open hours for some spaces, and …
Join us on Tuesday, October 22nd from 6pm-7:15pm at the Disability Cultural Center, located at 702 W. Johnson St., for a Story Share on Disability and Faith. Read testimonials from Disabled Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu activists, and talk through ways to increase accessibility and inclusion in religious spaces and at UW! Email …
Join us for apple-picking at Eplegaarden Orchard to celebrate the fall holidays! Meet outside Pyle Center at 1:00pm, Bus leaves at 1:15pm, returns at 3:30pm. Email interfaith@studentaffairs.wisc.edu for accommodations.
Join the Center for Interfaith Dialogue and the Wisconsin Union Dining Politics & Society Committee as we lunch and learn from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, presidential biographer, and Badger alum David Maraniss on the religion and the American presidency in the last 25 years.