{"id":11283,"date":"2023-06-01T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2024-02-06T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:59:17","slug":"senior-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/01\/senior-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Fellowships Anchor Collaboration Between Augsburg\u2019s Interfaith Institute and the Oxford Interfaith Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El-Hibri Chair and Executive Director of Interfaith Institute Najeeba Syeed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Najeeba Syeed<\/span><\/a>, El-Hibri chair and executive director of <\/span>Interfaith at Augsburg<\/span><\/a>, has been named a senior fellow of the Oxford Interfaith Forum. Reciprocally, Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum <\/span>Thea Gomelauri<\/span><\/a> will join Augsburg\u2019s Interfaith Institute as a senior fellow this fall. This mutual fellowship is a distinct characteristic of the institutions\u2019 partnership, which will focus on issues of peace, justice, intercultural and interfaith education, and furthering interreligious learning across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gomelauri is a faculty member of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and has extensive experience in research, teaching, and consultancy in different international, and intercultural contexts. She is a member of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, the Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East Collective, and the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum Thea Gomelauri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Augsburg\u2019s El-Hibri chair and executive director of Interfaith Institute, Syeed serves as a national ambassador for the interfaith movement and faculty advisor for Augsburg\u2019s Interfaith Scholars. She is a professor, expert practitioner, and public speaker in the fields of interfaith studies, mediation, conflict resolution, deliberative democracy, and social, gender, and racial equity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis fellowship serves as an anchor for our collaborative work of Interfaith Institute at Â̲èÖ±²¥ and the Oxford Interfaith Forum,\u201d Syeed says. \u201cWe look forward to collaborating in the United States, United Kingdom, and across the globe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri chair and executive director of Interfaith at Augsburg, has been named a senior fellow of the Oxford Interfaith Forum. Reciprocally, Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum Thea Gomelauri will join Augsburg\u2019s Interfaith Institute as a senior fellow this fall. This mutual fellowship is a distinct characteristic of the institutions\u2019 partnership, which will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":11284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3233,7],"tags":[4012,4011,3409],"class_list":["post-11283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-relationship-2","category-staff","tag-global-partnerships","tag-inter-religious-dialogue","tag-interfaith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11420,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions\/11420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}