About the Event
An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR
Hosted by AAR’s Bahá’í Studies Program Unit
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar, co-sponsored by the Bahá’í Studies Unit of the AAR and the Corinne True Center for Bahá’í History, will provide an overview of the recent publication The World of the Bahá’í Faith (Routledge, 2022), where 32 authors produced 51 chapters on Bahá’í scripture, leading figures, history, and teachings about a variety of mystic, personal, and social subjects. The webinar will feature three authors discussing their chapters. Arthur Lyon Dahl will talk about his chapter on the environment and sustainability, Augusto Lopez-Claros will discuss his work on economics in a global context, and Hoda Mahmoudi will discuss her chapter on peace.
AAR Fall Fridays is a webinAAR series that will highlight the scholarship coming from our varied AAR program units. This series — part of our larger year-round programming initiative — aims to bring the scholarship of our program units to the wider AAR membership and make it accessible outside of the Annual Meeting. These webinAARs will take place at 12:00 noon ET on Fridays and run from late September up until the in-person Annual Meeting in November.
Event Guidelines
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Panelists
Arthur Lyon Dahl, environmental scientist and a specialist in complex systems, is President of the International Environment Forum, and a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. He coordinated the UN System-wide Earthwatch, led work on indicators of sustainable development and global solidarity accountability, represented the Bahá’í International Community at the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and other international meetings, served in the Secretariat of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit drafting Agenda 21, and has participated in numerous UN conferences on sustainable development and climate change, addressing most recently challenges of global environmental governance.
Augusto Lopez-Claros is Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum. He has held senior roles in international organizations, including the World Bank where for many years he was the Director of the Global Indicators Group and the World Economic Forum where he was Chief Economist. He has written and lectured extensively in some of the world´s leading universities, think tanks and international organizations.
Hoda Mahmoudi has held the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, Professor Mahmoudi collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace. She has published twelve books and numerous articles.
Moderator
Robert H. Stockman is an American scholar specializing in Baháʼí studies. He holds a Th.D. in Religious Studies from Harvard University. Stockman has taught at DePaul University and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University South Bend and an affiliated faculty member at Notre Dame’s Ansari Center for the Global Engagement with Religion. He is also Director of the Corinne True Center for Baháʼí History. He is the author and editor of multiple books about the Baháʼí Faith, including works on the history of the faith in America and key figures.
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