Oxford Interfaith Forum organises the two-part event. PART I - 11:00-12:00 Interfaith Harmony: Singing Together, Across Languages and Times This event presents music from medieval religious illuminated manuscripts from the Bodleian Library. The performance will also feature songs in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English for all to join, and will be interspersed with the sound of shofar and shell horn. PART II - 14:00-15:30 Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Peacebuilding Lecture

PROGRAMME:

Opening Address: Mrs Rawan Al Faqir, First Secretary at the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Kingdom

Welcome: Dr Thea Gomelauri, Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum

Address: Professor Julian Stern, Director of the World Religions and Education Research Unit at Bishop Grosseteste University

Keynote lecture: Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women PeacebuildersProfessor Azza Karam, a Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, President and CEO of Women’s Learning Partnership, and Secretary-General Emerita at Religions for Peace

Address: Professor Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia OBE KSG, Spiritual Leader, Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha & Nishkam Group of Organisations.

Book Presentation: ‘Interreligious Learning and Peace Education: A History of Religions for Peace’ by Author, Professor Johannes Lähnemann with Dr Reinhard Krauss of the AFJCIS

More information and registration: https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/wihw/interfaith-peacebuilding-lecture-2024/