The Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions closed in June 2016. This web site will not be updated, and remains online as part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s public archive.
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2015–16 Programs

Conference: “Nostra Aetate and the Future of Interreligious Dialogue”
Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival
Conference: “Reporting on Religion: Media, Belief, and Public Life”
"Faith in My Field: How Knowledge of World Religions Has Helped My Career”
Abrahamic Religions Workshop for Sixth Graders

2014–15 Programs

Conference: “The Holy in a Pluralistic World: Rudolf Otto’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century”
Symposium: “Embattled Ideologies: I Am Malala and the Question of Women’s Education in South Asia”
Symposium: “Visualizing and Translating Scriptures: Reflections on The Saint John’s Bible
“Religion on Film” series
Roundtable discussion: “The Jihad of Meaning: Islam’s Struggle with Islamic Extremism”

2013–14 Programs

G. Willow Wilson talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival
Lecture by Prof. Judith Levi at Edgewood College
Lecture, panel, and screening of documentary film A Polite Bribe: An Apostle’s Final Bid
Isthmus Society Lecture: Frans de Waal & Jeff Schloss
Isthmus Society Film: Inherit the Wind
Isthmus Society Lecture: Peter Harrison

2012–13 Programs

Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored Events
Isthmus Society Events
LISAR@UW-Madison Diversity Forum
Muslim-Jewish Volunteer Initiative Co-existence Dinner
Out of Cordoba
Sponsored Events
Summer Teacher Institute
Thering Fellow: Charlotte Gordon
Wisconsin Book Festival: Ayad Akhtar and Amitabh Pal
White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge: Year 2
Badger Volunteers

2011–12 Programs

Amitabh Pal lecture
Annual Conference
Community Forum
Courage Project
Eboo Patel

Isthmus Society Events

Sponsored Events
Thering Fellow: James Carroll
Undergraduate Forum
White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge - Announcement
White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge

bar 2010–2011 Programs

411 on Faith
Coexistence Seder
Community Forum
Courage Project
Jerusalem Esplanade
LISAR @ ISNA
Neuroscience and the Abrahamic Religions
Sponsored Events
Thering Fellow: Arnold Eisen
Undergraduate Forum
Undergraduate Journal

bar 2009–2010 Programs

Annual Conference
Community Forum
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
Isthmus Society Events
LISAR @ ISNA

Negotiating Religion Internationally

Sponsored Events

Thering Fellowship: Jim Wallis
Undergraduate Forum
Undergraduate Journal

bar 2008–2009 Programs

Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored Events
Community Forum
Dalia Mogahed
Families of Abraham
Isthmus Society Events

Sponsored Events
Thering Fellowship: Reza Aslan
Undergraduate Forum
Undergraduate Journal

bar 2007–2008 Programs

Annual Conference
Community Forum
Isthmus Society Events
Philip Ratner's sculpture installation - 'Children of Abraham'
Sponsored Events
Undergraduate Forum

bar 2006–2007 Programs

Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored Events
Isthmus Society Events
Sponsored Events
Undergraduate Forum

bar 2005–2006 Programs

Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored Events
Isthmus Society Events
Sponsored Events