Candler School of Theology, Room 360, 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 11am – 1pm
Please register by March 19 at tinyurl.com…
Join Dean Jan Love for this Dean's Lecture honoring Dr. Nancy Eiesland in the inaugural lecture for the Dr. Nancy Eiesland Endowment for Disability Studies. Dr. Julia Watts Belser will speak on Violence, Disability, and the Politics of Healing.
What place do disabled people have in our imagined futures? Ancient and contemporary communities frequently portray the ideal, utopian society as a place without disability. Christian, Jewish, and secular eschatologies are often potent sites of disability erasure, forms of eugenic imagination that envision liberation through the denial of bodily and sensory difference. In this lecture, Julia Watts Belser examines the complex relationship between violence, disability, and domination — and contests notions of healing that depoliticize disability or devalue the integrity of disabled lives. Bringing sacred texts into conversation with feminist disability studies and the lived experiences of disability justice activists, she offers resources for religious voices seeking to reimagine disability, healing, and liberation.
Belser, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University, focuses in Talmud, rabbinic literature and Jewish ethics. Her research brings ancient texts into conversation with disability studies, queer theory, feminist thought, and environmental ethics. An ordained rabbi, Belser also writes queer feminist Jewish theology and brings disability culture into conversation with Jewish tradition.
Candler School of Theology is located on the campus of Emory University, at 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322.
University Event Topic: Theology
School: School of Theology
Department/Organization: Candler School of Theology Dean's Office
Registration Link: tinyurl.com…
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Alice Tarkington
Contact Phone: 404-727-9142
Contact Email: alice.tarkington@emory.edu
Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 11am – 1pm
Please register by March 19 at tinyurl.com…
Join Dean Jan Love for this Dean's Lecture honoring Dr. Nancy Eiesland in the inaugural lecture for the Dr. Nancy Eiesland Endowment for Disability Studies. Dr. Julia Watts Belser will speak on Violence, Disability, and the Politics of Healing.
What place do disabled people have in our imagined futures? Ancient and contemporary communities frequently portray the ideal, utopian society as a place without disability. Christian, Jewish, and secular eschatologies are often potent sites of disability erasure, forms of eugenic imagination that envision liberation through the denial of bodily and sensory difference. In this lecture, Julia Watts Belser examines the complex relationship between violence, disability, and domination — and contests notions of healing that depoliticize disability or devalue the integrity of disabled lives. Bringing sacred texts into conversation with feminist disability studies and the lived experiences of disability justice activists, she offers resources for religious voices seeking to reimagine disability, healing, and liberation.
Belser, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University, focuses in Talmud, rabbinic literature and Jewish ethics. Her research brings ancient texts into conversation with disability studies, queer theory, feminist thought, and environmental ethics. An ordained rabbi, Belser also writes queer feminist Jewish theology and brings disability culture into conversation with Jewish tradition.
Candler School of Theology is located on the campus of Emory University, at 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322.
University Event Topic: Theology
School: School of Theology
Department/Organization: Candler School of Theology Dean's Office
Registration Link: tinyurl.com…
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Alice Tarkington
Contact Phone: 404-727-9142
Contact Email: alice.tarkington@emory.edu