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

Munir Jiwa, Director of the Center for Islamic Studies

Sponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Women's Studies in Religion Program

Dinner Board Room, GTU Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley

Drawing on works in anthropology and critical theory, this presentation focuses on the particular ways that discussions on women, gender, feminism and sexuality have been mobilized by the Euro-American left to discipline and exert power over Islam and Muslims in its own liberal image. This creates an index of “good” and “bad” Islam and Muslims – Islamophilia and befriending Muslims that uphold liberal values, and Islamophobia and intimidation for those who do not. How do we understand colonial conceptions and practices of time and space embedded in terms like “progress/ive” and “universal” so intrinsic to ministry, mission, and empire, colluding on the left and right? How are Western liberalism, secularism, and the “Judeo-Christian civilization” reconfigured vis-à-vis Islam and Muslim subjectivity, especially using the frames of law and citizenship? And, by what stretch of the American imaginary and under what conditions and limits, can we make possible expanded norms of recognition of Islam and Muslim life?

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.

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

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.)

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.