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Dr. Thomas Farr to Speak about Religious Freedom
10/11/2010
 The University of St. Thomas Center for International Studies and the John Paul II Forum will present, “Religious Freedom, John Paul the Great and American National Interests,” a lecture by Dr. Thomas F. Farr, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11 in Cullen Hall, 4001 Mt. Vernon.
Farr is a visiting associate professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is also a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where he directs the Religion and Foreign Policy program.
A former U.S. diplomat, Farr was the State Department’s first Director of the Office of International Religious Freedom. After a career of 21 years, he left the foreign service to research and write on religion and U.S. national interests. He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, First Things, The Washington Post, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Drake Law Review and The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and has contributed essays to several edited volumes. He has appeared on PBS’s America Abroad, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. Farr blogs for the Washington Post’s “On Faith” and the American Principles Project. His own book, World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Farr served in the U.S. Army and has taught at both the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was a member of the Chicago World Affairs Council’s Task Force on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy. He currently chairs a task force on international religious freedom for the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, N.J., and is a contributing editor for the Review of Faith and International Affairs. Farr is also vice chair of Christian Solidarity Worldwide-USA, which defends religious freedom for all people.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Diana Garcia at 713-525-3530 or garciad@stthom.edu
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