Based on their substantial and significant empirical and in-depth exploratory research conducted in several countries within different Christian and Islamic contexts, Elisabet and Sandra will discuss how religion and religious actors contribute to violence against women and girls (VAWG), how it can play a role in helping to address VAWG and its consequences, and they […]
Hosted by the Centre for Religion in Society. Dr Sharon Jagger is in conversation with Dr Alex Fry, whose new book 'Gender Inequality in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England' takes a closer look at the views of male clergy in the Church of England who remain against women's ordination. Dr Fry's research […]
Join Silvia Yee (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund), Larkin Taylor-Parker (Autistic Self Advocacy Network), and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University) for a roundtable conversation exploring how new narratives can challenge uses of genetic and reproductive technologies based on ingrained ableism, and promote futures in which disabled people flourish. Rebecca Cokley (Ford Foundation) will moderate […]
In his inaugural lecture Professor Richard Bourne offers a series of reflections on how theological ethics might give some substance to the often too rhetorical talk of the transformative power of higher education. After tracing his development as a political theologian through themes of poverty and injustice, nonviolence, church and state, crime and punishment, and […]
Time to be Out would love to offer you a small free talk on the plight of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. We will be touching upon: Where people come from Why do they come here What we do How people can help There will also be some wine, nibbles, hot and […]
Join us for the film premiere and official launch of the Cinema and Social Justice Project's 'Cost of Living'.