WSR | Women's Studies in Religion

The GTU Women's Studies in Religion program and its partners throughout the GTU consortium are sponsoring a series of events in celebration of International Women's Day, March 8. See the listing below or download a copy of the flyer.

Women’s Studies in Religion hosts a Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Yolanda Norton

February 17, 2017 - 1-2pm GTU Student Lounge (Le Conte Building)

Bring your lunch for an informal presentation and conversation hosted by Women’s Studies in Religion.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 5:00-7:00 pm

Dinner Board Room (3rd floor of GTU library) 2400 Ridge Road

Please join the Women's Studies in Religion program of GTU for a reception to honor the 12 new faculty women who have been hired at GTU since 2015! The event will feature hors d'oeuvres, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. There will be a brief program at 5:30pm. Live music will be provided by PSR student Sarah Gettys.

All are welcome - students, staff, faculty, and others!

Join us at Church Divinity School of the Pacific for a day of theological reflection, discussion and worship as we explore the church’s response to the crisis of climate change. Speakers will include former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who is the current St. Margaret’s Visiting Professor of Women in Ministry; Bishop Marc Andrus of California, CDSP President and Dean W. Mark Richardson, and Professor Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, professor of theological and social ethics at CDSP and Pacific Lutheran Seminary of California Lutheran University.

Sahar Shafqat will deliver PSR's Seventh Annual Georgia Harkness Lecture on October 20, 2016 in the PSR Chapel at 6:30pm. Dr. Shafqat is Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

In honor of Women's History Month, and part of their on-going Artist-In-Residence Series, City of Refuge UCC kindly invites you to attend, "Something Within." This very special evening is a celebration of women composers and hymn writers. "Something Within" is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies in Religion at the GTU.

When: Sunday, March 13th 2016, 5:30pm05
Where: City of Refuge UCC, 8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland CA

Women's Studies in Religion at GTU cordially invites you to our Spring Reception. This event brings together faculty, students, staff, and their families for fellowship and to share all the Women's Studies Program has to offer! Come learn more about our certificate program, upcoming events, and opportunities to become involved.

Light refreshments will be served.

When: Tuesday, March 29th 4:30-5:30pm
Where: Richard S. Dinner Boardroom, 3rd Floor GTU Library, 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley CA

Please join the Women's Studies in Religion for another exciting installment of our Cafe Series! GTU Alumna and WSR Certificate graduate Ashley Bacchi will present on Women, Prophecy and Hellenistic Judaism. This conversation will explore women, power, and prophecy in the Hellenistic world and how modern preconceptions of gender norms are challenged in Hellenistic Jewish texts. Exploring the Greek Sibyl as a Jewish pseudonym considers the impact of a female prophetic voice in a male dominated prophetic tradition.