Program:
6.00pm Reception
6.30pm Dinner
7.00pm Speaker Panel

It has been 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. While much time has passed, images of the tragic events from that fateful day are still in our thoughts. Multicultural Mosaic Foundation will host a panel discussion in memory of 9/11 and the innocent lives lost, with hopes of continuing the healing process. We invite you to join us in our night of remembrance and reconciliation.

Dr. Karen Feste, Professor at the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, served as Associate Dean of International Studies from 1988 until September, 2000, and currently co-directs the International Security master’s program, and is graduate director of the interdisciplinary Conflict Resolution Institute at the University. Dr. Feste published recently two books: Terminate Terrorism: Framing, Gaming and Negotiating Conflict, (2010) and America Responds to Terrorism: Conflict Resolution Strategies of Clinton, Bush and Obama (2011). Dr. Feste also gave a talk on Homegrown Terrorism at the World Summit on Counter Terrorism in Israel, in September 2010.

Rabbi Stephen Booth-Nadav graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia and has served as a rabbi in Delaware, Michigan and Colorado for 18 years. He is the founder and director of the new initiative "Wisdom House Denver: A Center for Multifaith Dialogue and Spiritual Inquiry."  He is on the steering committee of the Religious Advisory Council at the University of Denver, and is a past steering committee member of the Abrahamic Initiative.  He teaches Jewish meditation and Jewish Wilderness Spirituality, and is a graduate of the "Building Abrahamic Partnerships" program at Hartford Seminary.  Rabbi Steve is also currently the rabbi of Congregation Har Mishpacha in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Rabbi Steve is an immediate past board member of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, is currently co-chairing a movement commission on Jewish identity, and is a founding member of Ohalah, the rabbinic association of the Jewish Renewal Movement. Rabbi Steve is the Project Manager for "9/11 Ten Years After: A Multifaith Response." Click here for Multifaith Denver website

Dr. Nader Hashemi is an Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and previously was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. His intellectual and research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, in particular debates on religion and democracy, secularism and its discontents, Middle East and Islamic politics, democratic and human rights struggles in non-Western societies and Islam-West relations. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2011). www.naderhashemi.com