GTU Event Calendar - March 2021

All GTU community members across the consortium are invited to attend a virtual “GTU 2.0 – Community Town Hall” on Tuesday, March 2nd, from 3-4:30pm.

To request Zoom access, please reach out to Melissa Haddick at: mhaddick@gtu.edu

To celebrate International Women's Day, CARe is partnering with Women's Studies in Religon and the newly created Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary to talk about gender justice and climate justice through the lens of the arts.

Please join us on Zoom where renowned poet and public intellectual Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs will offer a reading of her own poetry, and then guide us in poetry writing...

Join Dr. Ashley London Bacchi (Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Starr King School for the Ministry) for a timely discussion of the role Hellenistic art can play in combatting racism and sexism.

The weaponization of Greek and Roman art and architecture for white supremacist ideologies need to be combated. Nineteenth and twentieth century reception history white-washed the diversity of the Hellenistic...

The late Jewish American artist Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) changed the face of children’s literature and paved the way for the reconsiderations of monstrosity and Otherness that pervade contemporary media, from Sesame Street to Stranger Things. His emotionally isolated, unruly, and ethnically particular protagonists use fantasy to resist social coercion and self-erasure.

In Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford...

Part of a series of virtual workshops offered by CARe covering a wide variety of themes in the arts and religion. Each topic is covered by two 2-hour-long workshops. Open to students and community members alike, each workshop pair carries a $100 fee. CARe workshops are open to all - no experience in any of the fields necessary! GTU students, please note that these are not credit-earning workshops.

After a year-long repetitive rut of groundhog...

Please join CJS for another installment in our Spring "conversations@cjs" series on critical topics in the field of Jewish Studies. This event will feature distinguished panelists Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley), Jill Hammer (Academy for Jewish Religion), and Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) in conversation facilitated by Sam Shonkoff (GTU).

Part of a series of virtual workshops offered by CARe covering a wide variety of themes in the arts and religion. Each topic is covered by two 2-hour-long workshops. Open to students and community members alike, each workshop pair carries a $100 fee. CARe workshops are open to all - no experience in any of the fields necessary! GTU students, please note that these are not credit-earning workshops.

After a year-long repetitive rut of groundhog...

Part of a series of virtual workshops offered by CARe covering a wide variety of themes in the arts and religion. Each topic is covered by two 2-hour-long workshops. Open to students and community members alike, each workshop pair carries a $100 fee. CARe workshops are open to all - no experience in any of the fields necessary! GTU students, please note that these are not credit-earning workshops.

This online movement workshop seeks to re-...

Richard Lindsay will discuss beefcake magazines (softcore gay male pornography) from the 1950s and 1960s that served as a site for erotic exploration and development of a nascent gay community. Of particular focus will be the creation of queer spirituality based on popular Greco-Roman themes in the magazines, as well as the contributions to a theology of embodiment by queer clergy like Reverend Robert Wood, who published short essays in the...

Learn more about insights gleaned from the GTU’s DEI Survey, shared by LaMikia Castillo of Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC), and share your thoughts on how we might deepen and strengthen a culture of inclusiveness at the GTU.

To request Zoom access, please reach out to Melissa Haddick at mhaddick@gtu.edu.