Brian Clark, Faculty Associate in World Christianity, will be on a panel at the Wadsworth Atheneum on Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. The topic is “Encounters: Intrafaith Conflict.”

This event is part of a series sponsored by the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and UConn Humanities Institute -UCHI. Encounters focuses on encouraging informed and informal conversations about issues that affect our lives. The aim is to strengthen our ability to know ourselves, and to develop a forum for respectful and challenging dialogue.

The April 21 event is described this way: “2018 marks the 400th anniversary of the Thirty Years War, a wide-ranging war in Europe deeply connected to the splits in Christianity occasioned by Martin Luther’s break with Rome in 1517.  On the occasion of that anniversary, we invite you to join us for a conversation on the ongoing question of intrafaith conflict and its broader effects. We will open by thinking about religious conflict feeding armed conflict, then localize our conversation by looking at Hartford’s founding within the context of a religious struggle, and close by using that deep historical perspective to dialogue over the ongoing question of how the contests within one faith can have significant effects upon wider communities.

Limited space. Lunch will be provided after the discussion.

To register, email faculty@wadworthatheneum.org