Conversations
The Initiative promotes a model of conversation, of thinking things through together, to produce knowledge and to shape its collaborative work. Initiative conversations aim to be interdisciplinary, multi-religious, and geographically various and diverse. Conversations take many forms. On this website, for example, we name as conversations a number of different forms of communicating about things. Among these we include: the work of a Yale University research group of graduate students and faculty; a Religion and Film discussion series; the occasional presence of visiting artists and scholars among us; interviews conducted by Initiative Fellows and Associates with artists or architects and with religious leaders and practitioners; Initiative affiliated exhibitions taking place on Yale’s campus and elsewhere; and the yearly Fellows Seminars that generate ideas and materials for Initiative conferences and publications.
