God, Ethnicity and Social Justice: Castle Open Theology Seminar
Saturday 21 October 2023, 10:30am to 12:45pm
Venue
Lancaster Castle (the University Suite), Lancaster, United Kingdom, LA1 4YWOpen to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Families and young people, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/god-ethnicity-and-social-justice-castle-open-theology-seminar-tickets-721453736547?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Event Details
A theology seminar open to everyone and everything, even literature!.
Speakers
Dr Sunita Abraham (Lancaster) 'Unruly, Radical or Reparative: Reflections on Faith, Ethnicity and Social Justice'
and
Dr Simon Mardsen (Liverpool) 'What Have Poems Got To Do With Freedom? Reading Literature with Black Liberation Theology'.
Dr Sunita Abraham is Lecturer in Decolonisation in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Unversity of Lancaster. Her current research focuses on issues of race, colonialism, decolonisation, and inequality. In particular, she is interested in examining how Higher Educational Institutions can bring about systemic change through various decolonising initiatives that link staff and students with each other and with local/regional communities.
Dr Simon Marsden is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on intersections of literature and theology in literature from the Romantic era to the present, with a particular emphasis on the Gothic. he is the author of Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination (Bloomsbury 2014) and The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction (Palgrave, 2018)
Contact Details
| Name | Professor John Schad |