The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that Dr. Rita D. Sherma will be recognized
as the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer on
November 7, 2024.
The Graduate Theological Union Presents: The 44th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "Liberal Inclusion or Liberal Conversion? Islamophilia, Islamophobia, and Islamic Studies in Interreligious Contexts."
Dr. Munir Jiwa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Islamic Studies (CIS) will be this year's speaker.
"Follow the Women: Freeing Dialogue" is the title of the GTU's 2018 Distinguished Faculty Lecture. This year's featured speaker will be Dr. Marianne Farina, CSC, professor of philosophy and theology at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Her lecture will focus on how women’s voices challenge and reinterpret our understanding of interreligious dialogue. The perspectives that emerge have far-reaching implications for the theology and practice of dialogue. A response will be offered by Dr. Rita Sherma, director of the Center for Dharma Studies.
Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (CJS) will deliver the 2017 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: "When Jesus Spoke Yiddish: Translating the New Testament for Jews."
Dr. William O’Neill, Associate Professor of Social Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU), will deliver the 2015 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled, “A Terrible Beauty: Reimagining Human Rights.”
In nonwestern usage, “rights talk” is less talk about individual rights than the talk that rights make possible, such as the victims’ testimony in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Here rights become "a mouth to tell of suffering,” letting us see and redress the suffering and passion of the world.
Dr. Christopher Ocker, Professor of Church History at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS), will deliver the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled, "Reformations that Matter (and Some that Don’t)."
Dr. William Short, Dean and Professor of Christian Spirituality at FST will deliver the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “From Paris to Alcalá: The Franciscan School and the University, 1219-1533.”
