WSR | Women's Studies in Religion

Join in a Green Tea Conversation on Women's Leadership and Islam in China with Courtney Bruntz.

Courtney is a Ph.D. student at Graduate Theological Union. She worked as a Visiting Instructor of English and American Culture at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei, PRC for two years. Currently she is teaching a course, Women in Chinese Islam, at the GTU with the Newhall Grant.

Bring your lunch. Tea&snack will be provided. Free and open to the public

Pacific School of Religion, Mudd 103

Easton Hall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley

Please join us for an evening of films and discussion by Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Race and Resistance Studies, Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Join WSR on March 15th for a Coffee Conversation with Monica Coleman, Keri Day, and Andrea White on March 15th from 10:00- 11:30am in the GTU Dinner Boardroom.

This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss their publications such as Prof. Coleman’s Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology and Ain’t I a Womanist Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought;

WSR hosts the panel Envisioning the Future of Theology & Ethics: A Womanist Perspective

Join Monica Coleman, Claremont School of Theology; Keri Day, Brite Divinity School; and Andrea White, Emory School of Theology for a discussion on key issues, debates, and new approaches to Womanist Theology & Ethics.

(2 units) The event will take place at 6:30pm on March 14 at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley)

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WSR Cafe series presents: Dr. Ghazala Anwar “Khadija: A Model Worthy of Emulation". 

Please join us on April 4th at 10:30am on the 1st floor of the GTU Le Conte Building (2565 Le Conte Ave.)

This talk is based on research on the portrayal of Khadija, Prophet Muhammad's first wife in hagiographies and biographies of the Prophet written by Muslims and non-Muslims as well as modern hagiographies of Khadija herself. (2 units)

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Please Join WSR for Voices from the Soul: Poetry Jam/Open Mike Night Tues. February 12th 6:30-8 pm• PSR Mudd 100.

Opening with a piece from the Vagina Monologues. Come, bring a piece of poetry or a song and let your voice be heard.

WSR certificate students get priority & recieve 1 unit for performing a piece. Please bring acoustic instruments only.

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Women's Studies in Religion host its 2nd Annual Student Conference on Women and Religion on March 1, 2013.

The Conference will take place in the Tucson Room at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2451 Ridge Road Berkeley.

Time: 12:30pm-6pm. Reception following Conference. (2 units for whole conference, 1 unit for part) 

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WSR will be co-sponsoring with CARE Lisann Bassham’s theater production class’s Feminine Divine performance.

Doug Adams Gallery, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley