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The Institute for
Christian & Jewish Studies
presentsThe 2007 Bernard Manekin Lecture Faith, Reason,
and the Modern UniversityDr. John Sexton
President, New York UniversitySeptember 24, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Chizuk Amuno Congregation
8100 Stevenson Road
Baltimore, MD 21208
R.S.V.P. This event is free and open to the public. To reserve a seat, your response is kindly requested by September 19th. Please call 410-523-7227.
"We live in an era when the great world has grown small. What happens in distant places is known, and, more importantly, experienced everywhere, by almost everybody, immediately and unavoidably. The central challenge of your collective lives will be developing ways to manage in this miniaturized world of immediacy a vast richness of race, of faith, of culture, of thought. If you are to avoid the kind of destructive balkanization that can threaten to shred the fabric of civility on a global scale, you will be forced to create pathways of comprehension and communication across traditional divisions."
Dr. John E. Sexton
Speaking to the NYU Graduating Class, May 2006
John Edward Sexton, the fifteenth president of New York University, is also the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School's Dean Emeritus, having served as dean for fourteen years. He is a fellow of the Ameri-can Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the Association of American University Presidents (where he is a member of the Executive Committee) and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Sexton received a B.A. in History (1963) from Ford-ham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion (1965) and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion (1978) from Ford-ham University, and a J.D. magna cum laude (1979) from Harvard Law School
He has written extensively on the role of the university in American life and is interested in the interplay be-tween law, faith, reason, and education in today's society.
The Bernard Manekin Lecture is made possible by an endowment grant from the Clark Charitable Foundation.
Bernard Manekin is one of the founding fathers of the ICJS and has served on its Board of Trustees from its inception in 1987. Bernie remains a pillar that sustains the work of the ICJS.
A. James Clark is a long-time friend of Bernard Manekin. His commitment to forging creative partnerships is em-bodied in his endowment of The Bernard Manekin Annual Lecture.
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