Webinar: Sustaining Communities during COVID-19

5th June, 2020 @ 14:00 - 15:00

Overview

In this webinar, the three-way conversation with Lord Williams, Baroness Warsi and Dr Ed Kessler will explore the impact of the coronavirus on communities - local, regional, national. Are new forms of communities coming into existence and will they last? Will our appreciation of the local neighbourhood be sustained in the longterm? And what role does religion play?

Chaired by Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner, this dialogue will explore questions from a Christian, Muslim and Jewish perspective.

This webinar is free. However, we encourage you to support the work of the Woolf Institute with a donation: www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/support2020.

Speaker bios:

The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Williams of Oystermouth: Lord Williams is the Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and the former Archbishop of Canterbury (2002-12) and Wales (2000-02). He has a longstanding and passionate interest in social issues including interfaith relations, the climate crisis and peace.

The Right Honourable The Baroness Warsi: Baroness Warsi is a British lawyer, politician and member of the House of Lords. She was the first Muslim woman to serve in British Cabinet (2010-14) and is a former Senior Minister of State for Faith and Communities (2012-14).

Dr Ed Kessler: Dr Ed Kessler is Founder Director of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations, primarily, Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations. In 2002 he was elected Fellow of St Edmund's College; in 2007 Dr Kessler was described by The Times Higher Education Supplement (London) as 'probably the most prolific interfaith figure in British academia' and in 2011 was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to interfaith relations.

How to book

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