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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 …
Time: December 1, 2021 | 4:00-5:15pm Location: Zoom | Register Here Contemporary American discourse regarding the proper relation between religion and politics is increasingly incommensurate. How did we arrive at a place where our ideas are so divergent as to disclose dialog? I contend that our state of affairs has at least partially arisen from …
Time: October 27, 2021 | 4:00-5:15pm Location: Hybrid In-Person: The Center for the Humanities (above the University Club) Room 313 Zoom: Register here Buddhist art from Tibet and Nepal has become widely known through display in museums and exhibitions. Images of esoteric deities, maṇḍalas and ritual objects, previously seen only by practitioners, have been exposed …
Time: September 22, 2021 | 4:00-5:15pm
Location: The Center for the Humanities (above the University Club) | Room 313
Time: May 4 | 9:00am CST
Location: Zoom
Time: 27 April 2021 | 6:00pm
Location: Zoom | Register Here
Time: 8 April 2021 | 5:00p CST
Location: Zoom