Lectures Wed. April 16

A couple of lectures you might want to attend today...



Dr. James Ford, Associate Professor and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow will present: Buddhism and the Challenges of Religious Pluralism: Reflections on the Doctrine of Skillful Means

3-4pm, Library room 204

http://zsr.wfu.edu/about/lectures/

Dr. Charles Kurzman, Associate Professor of Sociology at UNC, Chapel Hill will present: The Challenges of Radical Islam

5pm, DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall

http://web.wfu.edu/calendar/?id=4677

Tribble Lecture Series on 'Interfaith Feminisms'

The Sixth Annual Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at Wake Forest University will explore “Interfaith Feminisms” March 4 and 5 in Brendle Recital Hall. This year’s series assembles an interfaith group of female scholars of religion to debate and discuss issues ranging from Islamic and Christian feminism to race and gender theology. The theme of “Interfaith Feminisms” promises a fresh look at some provocative questions and new perspectives on the impact of religion in the 21st Century.

The lecture series is named in honor of Phyllis Trible, internationally-known biblical scholar and University Professor of Biblical Studies at the Wake Forest Divinity School. The annual event brings together a wide-ranging audience of Wake Forest students and faculty members, clergy and individuals from across the nation interested in feminist theology. True to the Trible tradition, this year’s scholars will explore feminist and womanist historical and religious perspectives. The two-day event wraps up with a panel discussion with the scholars, moderated by Trible herself.

This year’s speakers include Mary Boys, the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Her lecture, titled “Christian Feminist Theology: Learning in the Presence of the Other” draws on her study of Christian and Jewish dialogue. Hibba Abugideiri, assistant professor of history at Villanova University, will explore the role of the modern Islamic woman in “Speaking from Behind the Veil: Does Islamic Feminism Exist?” Abugideiri specializes in modern Middle East history, women in the Middle East and North Africa. Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies in the department of religion at Dartmouth College, will address “Strange Affinities: Biblical Scholarship and the Rise of Racism.” Yvonne Haddad, professor of the history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, will build on the interfaith feminisms theme when she lectures on “Negotiating Gender through the Qur’an.”

Phyllis Trible, in whose honor the series is held, will open and close the series and be present throughout. She is the author of several books, including “God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality” and “Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives.” Previous lecture series themes focused on “Gender, Sexuality and Faith,” “Miriam, Mary and Mary Magdalene in Art, Literature and Music: Feminist Perspectives,” “The Children of Hagar and Sarah: Feminist Perspectives in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” and “Feminist and Womanist Religious Perspectives.”

Registration for the lecture series begins at noon March 4. Admission is $35 for each individual lecture or $100 for all four lectures. There is an additional charge for the closing luncheon on March 5. The series is free to Wake Forest students, faculty and staff; students from other schools may also attend free by showing their student identification. A complete schedule of events is available online at http://divinity.wfu.edu/trible-lectures.html. For additional information, call 336-758-3522.


--- Text from Wake Forest News Service

Interfaith in the OGB

Check out this week's Old Gold and Black for an article on the interfaith meditation room.

You can read it online here

Next Meeting

Due to Wake's basketball game and other scheduling conflicts,
our next meeting will be:

Wednesday, February 6
5:00 pm
Wingate Hall - room 202

'The Heart of Islam' Free Lecture

Please join us at a Free Lecture on 'The Heart of Islam' by renowned Islamic scholar and author - Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Dana Auditorium
Guilford College, Greensboro
Wednesday, January 23rd 7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Friends Center at Guilford College and Greensboro Interfaith Lecture Series, the lecture seeks to present the Triad with an opportunity to gain understanding into the deep spiritual foundations of Islam represented by the mystical school of Sufism.


Professor Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and has previously taught at Tehran University in Iran.
His newest book is titled - The Garden Of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition.

For further information about Dr. Nasr and his writings, visit:

http://www.nasrfoundation.org/bios.html

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