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On the shoulders of its previous, longstanding program in Women and Gender Studies in Church and Society, CRCDS launched a new program in Gender, Sexual, and Racial Justice in the spring semester of 2021. Join us as we create space on April 1-2, 2022 for collective visioning of the program’s future, as well as the future of broader collaborative work to end social violence that targets women, LGBTQ+ persons, survivors of abuse, and communities of color. We offer this as a space for participants to (re)ground and cultivate deeper, accountable relationships with broader networks of academics, activists, and ministers working to make flourishing futures manifest in gendered, sexual, and racial terms.
The main components of our virtual time together include:
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A Call to Imagination by GSRJ Director, Dr. Hilary J. Scarsella
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A Community Leaders Panel, in which leading instigators for gender, sexual, and racial social change guide us in strategizing for flourishing futures.
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A Scholar’s Panel, in which renowned experts whose theological work promotes gender, sexual, and racial justice guide us in strategizing for flourishing futures.
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Collective Guided Reflection/Worship, in which hold space for spiritual nourishment and imagination.
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Workshops, led by CRCDS faculty, that cultivate tools of thought and practice relevant for pursuing just futures. To view, the workshops click
HERE.
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A Reciprocal Call to Action, in which we together articulate the futures we have imagined over the course of the conference and shape our steps forward.
Join us! All are welcome.
Featured Speakers:
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Proposed Conference Schedule:
*All times listed are Eastern Standard Time
| Friday, April 1, 2022 |
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| 6:00 pm - Welcome & Call to Imagination |
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| 6:45 pm - Community Leaders Panel |
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| 8:15 pm - Break / Individual Guided Reflection |
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| 8:25 pm - Collective Guided Reflection / Worship |
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| 9:00 pm - Adjourn for the evening |
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| Saturday, April 2, 2022 |
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| 1:00 pm - Welcome |
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| 1:10 pm - Scholar's Panel / Helen Barrett Montgomery Lecture |
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| 2:40 pm - Break / Individual Guided Reflection |
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| 3:00 pm - Workshops |
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| 4:00 pm - Reciprocal Call to Action |
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| 4:30 pm - Closing |
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Download the Conference Flyer
HERE.
About the GSRJ Program at CRCDS
The GSRJ program exists to promote justice in gendered, sexual, and racial terms within communities of faith, communities of academic scholarship, the community of learners that calls CRCDS home, and CRCDS’s local geographic community of Rochester, New York.
GSRJ curricular programs equip students to use the resources of theological and multireligious education to recognize, analyze, and intervene in forms of violence and oppression that target women, LGBTQ+ persons, and survivors of sexual violence—particularly women, LGBTQ+ persons, and survivors of color. Students learn to draw on both historically significant and contemporary scholarship and activism to assess the specific ways that violence against such persons is manifesting in their own social contexts. GSRJ curricular programs develop students’ capacity to create intellectually rich, concrete plans to interrupt, challenge, and transform the systems giving rise to that violence.
Questions? Check out our FAQ section at the bottom of this page or contact:
Hilary J. Scarsella, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ethics
Director of Gender, Sexual, and Racial Justice Studies
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