An Inquiry into What It Might Mean for a Human Life to Matter
Michael Penn
Presentations & Talks
On this page you can find recordings of selected ABS conference plenary presentations exploring some of the pressing issues of our times and offering in-depth analysis of Bahá'í teachings and history.
Race and Racism
New Black Power: Constructive Resilience and the Efforts of African American Bahá’ís
Derik Smith
Navigating Discourse on Race within the Politicized Landscape of Journalism
Jesse Washington
The Beautiful Struggle: Understanding Racism and Transforming Words into Deeds
Ruha Benjamin
The Residue of Memory & the Clarion Call of Truth: Healing through Reclamation and Art
Reflections on Race: Exploring the Relationship between Justice and Oneness
Mariam Ashtiani, Nanabah Bulman, Zhaleh Boyd, Robin Chandler
Social Justice
The Nature and Dynamics of Oppression, Empowerment, and the Battle against Oppression
Nader Saiedi
Theater and Education for Student Social Change
Chitra Golestani, Penny Carroll, Nora Dicker, Tyrone Lamont Baker, Kyla Brown, Harvey McMurray
Re-Telling Reconciliation
Roshan Danesh
Honouring the children: Social action for truth, reconciliation and justice
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond/Akikwe, Roshan Danesh, Jordan Bighorn
Knowledge into Action: The Bahá’í Imperative to Serve Humanity
Layli Miller-Muro
Striving for Human Rights in an Age of Religious Extremism
Nazila Ghanea
Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics
Discourse Matters:: The Potential of Qualitative Sociology to Illumine Bahá’í Studies (Exploring the Social Sciences panel)
June Manning Thomas, Deborah K. van den Hoonaard, Geoffrey Cameron
Reading Utopias: From Dichotomy to Complementarity (Exploring the Humanities panel)
Elham Afnan, Susan Maneck, Gerald Filson
The Role of Religion in Society
Julia Berger, Emily Goshey, Benjamin Schewel, Matthew Weinberg
Education and the Generation of Knowledge
The Intellectual Life of the Bahá’í Community
Farzam Arbab
Bahá’í Participation in the Public Sphere: Considerations Related to History, Concepts, and Approaches
Shahriar Razavi
Reading, Analyzing and Transforming Reality through Participatory Research
Shabnam Koirala-Azad
Science & Religion
Neuroscience, Ethics, and Religion: Moving Beyond Coexistence
Paul Root Wolpe, Karen Rommelfanger, Gillian Hue, Tara Raam
Technologies and Values
Mitra Naeimi Solomon, Mark Towfiq, Matthew Weinberg
Natural Sciences and Society (Exploring the Natural and Life Sciences panel)
Elizabeth Bowen, Kamran Sedig, Arthur Dahl
Study of Bahá’í History and Sacred Texts
The Body of God: Major themes in Bahá’u’lláh's Surih of the Temple
John S. Hatcher
The Ocean of Revelation: Dynamic Source of All Learning
Hooper Dunbar
Epiphany of the Prophets
John S. Hatcher
”The Word that Shineth and Flasheth Amidst the Books of Men”: Text, Translation, and the Nature of Reality
Steven Phelps
