ICCJ CONFERENCE, MANCHESTER, 1-4 JULY 2012

Book now for the Jewish-Christian Dialogue Event of the Year

Meet with over 180 people from at least 25 different countries, and every continent each passionately committed to Jewish-Christian engagement.

Examine the greatest challenges to inter-faith dialogue today with first-rate input and top-class workshops.

The International Council of Christians and Jews hold their annual conference in Manchester, U.K. From Sunday 1st July to Wednesday 4th July this year. 

This is a unique chance to meet the key players in Jewish-Christian Relations throughout the world.

New Neighbours, New Opportunities:

The Challenges of Multiculturalism and Social Responsibility

Organised in co-operation with the University of Manchester’s Centre for Jewish Studies

Has multiculturalism failed?

How do our beliefs make a difference to the world around us?

What are the challenges that will shape our future?

How will we meet them? 

Keynote addresses from

  • Clive Lawton, educationalist, broadcaster, co-founder and senior consultant of Limmud, former chair of development charity Tzedek
  • Rt Hon John Denham, MP, former Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government in the U.K.
  • Professor Kwok Pui Lan, Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Responses from

  • Revd Helene Egnell, Director of the Centre for Inter Faith Dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Dr Ed Kessler, MBE, Founding Director of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge
  • Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue

A range of high-calibre workshops on

  • Multiculturalism, Past and Present (led by the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton)
  • Israel, Islam and Interfaith Relations (led by the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)
  • Social Responsibility (University of Manchester)
  • Non-Western Countries and International InterFaith Developments (ICCJ)
  • The Dialogic Interface:  Lessons and Principles (CCJ UK on current domestic developments)
  • And a special session on Scriptural Reasoning with Professor David Ford – reading our texts together.

If you are planning a programme of study on Jewish-Christian Relations or inter-faith engagement; exploring the context of inter-faith relations today; working in multicultural settings or facing multicultural questions; engaged with the future of inter-faith relations then this is a unique opportunity to meet the international leaders of their craft – not just among the speakers, and the workshop leaders, but also among the delegates and participants.   

Plenty of opportunity to relax, meet and engage with one another – including visits to key Manchester and Salford sites, a meeting with the Commissioning Editor for BBC Religion and Ethics and a Gala Dinner at an internationally famous Manchester venue to celebrate the Council of Christians and Jews’ 70th birthday.

All this for GB£250 / €300 – for the whole conference – or pick just one day for GB£85 / €100

Find out more by visiting ICCJ’s website:   http://www.iccj.org/

But hurry – registration closes on June 1st.

 

If you want to know more, or if you want to learn of other ways in which you can support this unique event, please contact the Conference Co-ordinator, Francesca Frazer, whose e-mail is francesca.frazer@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

You can also contact Steve Williams and David Arnold, the co-chairs of the Manchester Branch of the Council of Christians and Jews.

Their e-mails are: saintgabriel@talktalk.net (for Steve) and d.arnold@totalise.co.uk (for David).