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Scientific Practice and the Prophetic Imagination
Mar
27
Clock 7:00 PM
Location Meyer Science Center Lecture Hall
Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) and the Natural Sciences welcome Dr. Christiana Zenner (Associate Professor of Theology, Science, and Ethics and Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies, Fordham University), who will give a plenary lecture for this year’s joint Symposium on Scientific Practice and the Prophetic Imagination.
Dr. Zenner’s lecture will be followed by the HNGR Intern Poster Session at 8:30pm. Light refreshments will be served following the lecture. All events are free and open to the public.
Dr. Christiana Zenner, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Theology, Science, and Ethics and Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies at Fordham University-Lincoln Center, New York City. She works on topics related to theology and science, especially in light of the environmental sciences and fresh water. The author of Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and Fresh Water Crises (2014, rev. ed. 2018), Dr. Zenner is also co-editor of two volumes on bioethics, science and society, and sustainability. Her next book, Beyond Laudato Si’, is an anti-colonial feminist assessment of Pope Francis’s 2015 ecology encyclical in a time of ongoing environmental degradations and social inequalities.
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Dr. Thandi Gamedze is an academic, a writer, a poet, a facilitator, an educator, and a theologian, based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her doctoral research was transdisciplinary, bringing together the worlds of education and theology to better understand the role churches play in both upholding and challenging dominant power relations relating to race, gender, and class. She has broad experience working across multiple sites, including churches, universities, high schools, and community organisations. Her interests include theologies of liberation, social justice, radical pedagogies, and the arts – particularly poetry. Dr. Gamedze works with high school students through an organisation called Bottomup, supporting and equipping them to develop critical consciousness and make change within their schools and wider communities. Among other things, this work has included history workshops, public speaking workshops, and creative writing workshops. For the last several years through an organisation called The Warehouse, she has done a lot of work with Christians grappling with the ways in which their faith speaks to issues of social justice. Among other things, this has included facilitating contextual bible study processes, in which social issues are analysed and become the lenses through which we collectively read and engage the text in order to explore what faithfulness looks like within our contexts. It has also included mobile classrooms or city pilgrimages, in which we read not only our context and the biblical text, but also the space we inhabit, as we move through key sites in the city in order to more deeply understand our world and how our faith speaks to it. This has also included facilitating processes through which participants can grapple with the history of the church in South Africa – both oppressive and liberative – in order to live justly and faithfully as the church today.