Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications - Tapa blanda

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Ori Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art his­tory and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum.

Rachel Stern is the founding and executive director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York.

Endy Moraes, LLM, Director, Institute on Religion, Law, and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham Law School, is a Brazilian lawyer with extensive experience in interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Endy has an LLM, cum laude, from Fordham Law School, and is admitted to practice in New York. She is a member of the Focolare Movement of the Catholic Church, living in community.

Lindsay Anne Balfour, PhD is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University and works within the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster. Her research draws on the philosophical concept of hospitality to consider the relationship between humans and machines (HCI), and employs an intersectional feminist and cultural studies perspective to look at digital intimacies. Currently, she is conducting feminist analyses of surveillance capitalism and embodied computing including how hospitality works through the digital strangeness of tracking technologies such as wearables, implantables, and ingestibles (FemTech). Her recent books include Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate, 2017; The Digital Future of Hospitality, 2023; and the forthcoming FemTech: Intersectional Interventions, 2023.

Thomas Massaro, S.J., is Professor of Moral Theology at Fordham University. A Jesuit priest of the United States East Province, he has taught as professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Boston College, and at Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, where he also served as Dean. Father Massaro holds a doctorate in Christian social ethics from Emory University. His nine books and over one hundred published articles treat Catholic social teaching and its recommendations for public policies oriented to social justice, peace, worker rights and poverty alleviation. A former columnist for America magazine, he writes and lectures frequently on such topics as the ethics of globalization, peacemaking, environmental concern, the role of conscience in religious participation in public life, and developing a spirituality of justice. His most recent book is Mercy in Action: The Social Teachings of Pope Francis (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018).