NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The World Bank senior officer who oversees its
collaboration with religious organizations will speak at Vanderbilt
University about religion and development.
The lecture by Katherine Marshall will be at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.
24, in Room 204 of the Mayborn Building on Vanderbilt‘s Peabody College
campus.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the
Religion and Economy Faculty Research Group of Vanderbilt‘s Center for
the Study of Religion and Culture.
“Faith communities have much potential to help governments and
international institutions respond to communities in ways that respect
their local traditions and answer to their particular needs,” Marshall
said during a recent lecture at Cornell University.
Marshall has worked for more than three decades on international
development, focusing on issues in the world‘s poorest countries. She
has been a World Bank official since 1971 and is currently a counselor
to President James D. Wolfensohn and oversees its World Faiths
Development Dialogue.
The Religion and Economy Faculty Research Group was the first proposal
to be funded by the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, a
transinstitutional center founded at Vanderbilt in 2003 to foster
research and innovation at the intersections of religion and culture.
The Center for the Study of Religion and Culture is funded by a $3.1
million grant from Vanderbilt‘s Academic Venture Capital Fund. It is
overseen by directors Douglas Knight, professor of Hebrew Bible at
Vanderbilt Divinity School, and Volney Gay, professor and chair of
religious studies in the College of Arts and Science.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu