Judson Academy

Join us for lectures from leading practitioners and scholars on a variey of topics - from cultural anthropology to international relations and more. You'll leave fully briefed in a new subject to add to your intellectual and practical life.

Schedule: Running from 7:00-8:45 pm on the first Monday of the month, these Academy evenings consist of a 45-minute lecture, a short break and then a 45-minute group discussion.

Interested in Presenting? The Judson Academy for Open Thinking is for YOU and ALL OF US. If you have a subject on which you'd like to lead a lecture and discussion, please reach out to me or the rest of the Judson Academy team.

For more information contact info@judson.org or call 212 477 0351.

Interculturalism: Monday, October 3, 2011

At 7:00 pm at Judson's offices at 239 Thompson St., we will resume Judson Academy for the 2011-12 year with David Blythe and Lisa Cohen on living in multi-cultural communities.

Our session will be an introduction to thinking about intercultural issues and how each of us is shaped by and influenced by our own cultural backgrounds. We will introduce frameworks to help participants think about cultural differences in a new way and help recognize how you react and how you can react differently when encountering people of other cultures.

About the Presenters

David Blythe is a member of Judson and has worked in the field of international student exchange for 30 years. He is currently the Manager of Program Policy and Support at AFS International and has studied in Germany and Austria.

Lisa Cohen has worked in the field of international student exchange for 20 years. She studied abroad in both Argentina and Denmark. She has a great interest in the intercultural education field and currently coordinates training efforts for AFS International, which allows her to travel frequently.

Directions

Judson Memorial Church offices are located at 239 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012.

Subway stops: W. 4th on the ACE / F/ B / M and the NYU-8th St. on the N / R, and Christopher St. on the 1/2.

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Previous Lectures

Living in the Overlap

Monday, April 18th, 2011, 7pm
Assembly Hall (enter at 239 Thompson Street)
Led by Rev. Michael Ellick, the Community Ministers, and You.

In honor of Judson's Minister Emeritus Rev. Howard Moody, and in celebration of his 90th Birthday, on April 18th, 2011, the Judson Academy for Open Thinking will host a presentation and community discussion on Rev. Moody's 2008 paper that has sparked conversations all over the country about the state of the church and its future...

In Living in the Overlap: What Personal Belief and the Church Might Look Like in the Postmodern World, Howard contends that many of today’s churches and their congregants are worshiping theologically and liturgically in a bygone era, “consciously or otherwise.” 

He explains: “Religious people may be medievalist on Sunday, modernist at work on Monday, and postmodernist in quantum physics class on Wednesday. This is what I mean by Living in the Overlap: the modern and postmodern ages coexist, and some of us live with one foot in each age.”