The Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman lectures are listed below in reverse chronological order.
* Denotes Assembly Series Lecture
Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Dominion or Regeneration: How do Faith Communities Show up in Perilous Times?
MARCH 31, 2022
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
Faith in Action: Working for Justice in St. Louis
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Dr. Billie Mayo and Dr. Shima Rostami
Voices of the Unheard and a Call for Grace for Victims of Oppression, Racism and Sexism
MARCH 29, 2018
Rev. Traci Blackmon and Rabbi Susan Talve
Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Arsalan Iftikhar
Reading the Quran at Starbucks: An American Secular Feminist and a Traditional Muslim Scholar Find Commonalities
APRIL 14, 2015
Carla Power *
Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman/Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
West Bank Story
APRIL 1, 2008
Ari Sandel *
Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman / Students for a Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Future Lecture
Co-sponsored by Jewish Student Union
Challenging the Illusion of Separation: Celebrating the Dignity of Difference
FEBRUARY 12, 2004
Rabbi Susan Talve *
Address
MARCH 26, 2001
Paul Simon *
Ferdinand Isserman Memorial Lecture/Thomas C. Hennings Memorial Lecture
Address
NOVEMBER 11, 1998
Senator George J. Mitchell *
Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman Memorial Lecture/Thomas C. Hennings Memorial Lecture
Social Justice and the 1996 Presidential Election
OCTOBER 24, 1996
Congressional Representative Patricia Schroeder *
Jewish Perspective on Neo-Nazism
NOVEMBER 9, 1994
Ernst Stein *
Holocaust Memorial Lecture/Ferdinand Isserman Memorial Lecture