Interfaculty Working Group, 2000–2001

Date: 

Friday, September 1, 2000 (All day) to Thursday, May 31, 2001 (All day)

Location: 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
This interfaculty working group gathered together colleagues from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, the Divinity School, the Medical School, the Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Graduate School of Education, all of whom are interested in the changing religious, cultural, and ethnic landscape of the United States in the light of America's new immigration in the post-1965 period. Our hope for this working group would be to engage people who are interested in thinking together about the questions raised by the new immigration --historians, sociologists, and scholars of religion, law, education, and public policy. Undoubtedly our schedules are too crowded to meet one another individually, but gathering together we can surely generate a lively conversation. We can learn about one another's work and perhaps begin to share some of the rich resources and perspectives here on the Harvard faculty. During 2000-2001, this working group will share our own work in a series of lunch and dinner meetings, bringing an occasional speaker to stimulate our discussion. It is our hope that this community of conversation will stimulate new perspectives on immigration, religious pluralism, and American civil society and may well lead to the creation of new courses and fresh research. For a list of Interfaculty Working Group participants, click here. To review the original proposal, click here.