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鈥淪eeing and Believing: Social Media and Social Justice鈥
鈥淪eeing and Believing: Social Media and Social Justice鈥
presented by Ellen T. Armour
16th Annual Durfee Lecture, Spring 2024
Abstract
We call social media the new public square. How is this new visually saturated media landscape affecting the struggles for social justice? 听What role is photography playing in it and on it, and thus in and on those struggles? We live (virtually) in social media 鈥渂ubbles,鈥 research tells us. What we see there tends to reinforce what we already believe, it seems, and what we already believe shapes what we see. And yet the #BlackLivesMatter movement (among others) demonstrates听this new media landscape鈥檚 power to draw (at least some of) us together across lines that tend to divide us. Drawing on听Seeing and Believing,听Armour听analyzes these challenges and opportunities听offering strategies听drawn from religious ways of seeing for navigating听them to advance social justice.
Bio
Ellen T.听Armour听is Professor and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School where she directs the Carpenter Program in Religion,听Gender听and Sexuality. In addition to听Seeing听and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture and Social Justice听(New York: Columbia 青瓜视频 Press, 2023),听she is the author of听Signs and Wonders: Theology after Modernity听(Columbia 青瓜视频 Press, 2016) and听Deconstruction, Feminist Theology, and the Problem of Difference: Subverting the Race/Gender Divide听(Chicago: 青瓜视频 of Chicago Press, 1999). She also co-edited听Bodily Citations: Judith Butler and Religion听(New York: Columbia 青瓜视频 Press, 2006).
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Past Lectures
15. "God and Hip Hop," 2023
Alex Nava
Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at the 青瓜视频 of Arizona
video.
14. "Postcolonialism, Interreligious Engagement, and Peacebuilding,"听2022
Kwok Pui Lan
Dean's Professor of Systematic Theology, Emory 青瓜视频, Candler School of Theology听
13. "The Pre-Monastic Ascetic Landscape of Mesopotamia: Marcionites, Manichaeans, and Other Conversation Partners", 2021
Father Columba Stewart, OSB
2020 Phi Beta Kappa Fellow, Benedictine Monk, and Executive Director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John's 青瓜视频
12. "Prophets, Profits, and Pain: The Politics of Prosperity Gospel in Nigeria", 2019
Anthea Butler听
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the 青瓜视频 of Pennsylvania, and the graduate chair of Religious Studies
11. "Reading The听Qur'an In听America", 2018
Jane McAuliffe
Inaugural Director of National and International Outreach
Library of Congress
10. "Rest, Bullet: Ritual Homecoming Practices among Combat Veterans", 2017
Kathryn McClymond
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Georgia State 青瓜视频
9. "Locating Contemporary Spirituality: New Thoughts on the Changing American Religious Landscape", 2016
Courtney Bender
Professor of Religion
Columbia 青瓜视频
8. "Religious Difference Without Religious Conflict", 2015
Stephen Prothero
Professor of Religion
Boston 青瓜视频
7. "The Religious-Secular Binary as a Space of Pluralism", 2014
Slavica Jakelic
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Thought
Valparaiso 青瓜视频
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
青瓜视频 of Virginia
6. "God's Fifth Abode: Entrepreneurial Faith in the Hindu Himalayas", 2013
Brian K. Pennington
Chair,听Division听of听Humanities;听Professor听of听Religion
Maryville听College
5. "Islam and Human Rights: Religious and Secular in Conversation", 2012
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies
青瓜视频 of Virginia, Charlottesville
4. "A for Antigone: Reading Derrida's Difference Again", 2011
Amy Hollywood
Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies
Harvard Divinity School
3. "Sheep Gone Astray: The Tragic History of the Religious Right", 2009
Randall Balmer
Professor of American Religious History
Bernard College, Columbia 青瓜视频
2. "Religion and National Conflict: Reflections on Myanmar, Iraq, and Other Current Examples", 2008
David Little
Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and
International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School;
Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Harvard 青瓜视频
1. "Parmenides in the 21st Century", 2007
Harold A. Durfee
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy and Religion
American 青瓜视频