Religion and Development

Speaker Series

Religion and Development

June 20, 2023
Duke Center for International Development
Co-sponsored by the Duke Center for International Development and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Emma Tomalin

Emma Tomalin

University of Leeds

Emma Tomalin is Professor of Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Working in Gender and Development: Faith and Development and Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism.

Arash Fazli

Arash Fazli

Devi Ahilya University

Arash Fazli is Assistant Professor and Head of the Bahá’í Chair for Studies in Development at Devi Ahilya University, Indore. He is co-editor of Reimagining Prosperity: Social and Economic Development in Post-COVID India.

Moderators

Daniel Duhart

Daniel Duhart

Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

Daniel Duhart is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago, Chile. His research examines the discourse and practice of civilizational transition in Chile, and their resonances with alternative conceptions of intellectual life and civic society.

Kerilyn Schewel

Kerilyn Schewel

Senior Fellow, COMIT

Kerilyn Schewel is the Co-Director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development. Her research examines the root causes of human migration and immobility, with a focus on themes of gender, youth, rural development, and climate change.

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