Join the Library and the Center for Jewish Civilization for the Annual Ellen Catherine Gstalder Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 14 at 6:00 pm in Lauinger Library. The Ellen Catherine Gstalder (C’98) Memorial Lecture Fund supports an annual lecture on significant social issues in America. The lecture was founded in 2007 to honor the memory of Ellen Gstalder.
This year's event will feature James Carroll, award-winning author and Georgetown University alumnus, whose lecture entitled "Jesus, Jews, & Jihad: the Misremembered Christ & the Sick Soul of the West" will discuss the early mistake the followers of Jesus made in deleting his permanent Jewishness from their memory, and how that mistake helped set in motion religious anti-Judaism, racial anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and racism more generally. The way back from this mistake lies in a full Christian retrieval of the Jewishness of Jesus - a process that is underway.
Learn more and RSVP for this year’s lecture at the event page!