Economies of Violence
Recognising the multiple factors which shape access to justice such as gender, religion, race and class, the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice convened a public lecture on the theme of Economies of Violence with keynote speaker, Rev Dr Traci West.
American Academy of Religion
From the 23rd to 26th of November 2019, Prof Nadar and Dr Scharnick-Udemans attended the 2019 Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in San Diego.
#MeToo Tweets the Pastor
Dr Evelyn L. Parker discussed Research Methodological Concerns about the project, “The Role of Religious Leaders in Preventing and Intervening in Youth Partner Violence”
Noise complaint against District Six mosque shows increasing religious intolerance
As part of the centre’s commitment to interrogating the ways in which religion is involved and implicated in a variety of uneven power relations in society, we consciously work to bridge the gap between academia and civil society in productive and thoughtful ways. To that end, Dr Scharnick-Udemans penned a response to the debate about noise complaints against Zeenatul Islam mosque in Cape Town.
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians 5th Pan-African Conference
2 – 4 July 2019, Gaborone, Botswana
World Peace Convention
Prof Nadar was invited to be a plenary speaker at the 2018 World Peace Convention
#MeToo At What Cost?: The Role of Culture and Religion in Policing Women’s Voices and Bodies
First Annual Women’s Month Public Lecture: The Role of Culture and Religion in Policing Women’s Voices and Bodies
Religion, Sexuality, Art and Activism with Inclusive and Affirming Ministries
The Centre co-convened a panel with this faith-based organisation, as part of its thematic focus area on religion and gender. The panel discussion was held just […]
African Traditional Religion: Status and Practice in South Africa
Conversations and lectures by Dr Nokuzola Mndende, African Traditional Religion expert and practitioner
4-6 August 2019, Cape Town, South Africa
Writing Retreats
Eleven postgraduate students and their supervisors attended the retreat.
Council for World Mission Workshop, Subversive bodies, hopes and desires: Humanness under Empire
Stellenbosch, 3-6 December 2018
Contextualising Contemporary Christianities – What is the Future of Christian Theology?
This roundtable discussion was led by visiting scholar to the Centre, Dr Tim Hartman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary in the USA. The […]
United Evangelical Mission
United Evangelical Mission (UEM) 2019 The Centre hosted a study group from UEM (United Evangelical Mission) headed by Claudette Williams, a reverend in the URCSA. Rev […]
Sanctifying Sex: Exploring ‘Indecent’ Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices
In June 2019, Prof Nadar presented a public lecture at the University of Leeds, based on a paper that was co-authored with Dr Johnathan Jodamus. The […]
Reimagining Christianity, Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Speakers: Dr Adriaan van Klinken and Ashwin Thyssen
Politics of Identities, Ethics and Reconciliation (PIER)
In the wake of the wave of recent student activism in South Africa, the term ‘decolonial’ has become a weighty conceptual tool in the academy.
Performance and Production in the Field: Examining Queer Methodology in Research with Queer Clergy
Speaker: Megan Robertson
European Women’s Theological Research Network
Prof Nadar presented a paper to the Greek chapter of the European Women’s Theological Research Network, ‘Negotiating the ‘F-words’ ‘- Faith’ and ‘Feminism’ in a post-apartheid globalized university’.
Non-Religion, Secularity and Religious Pluralism in South Africa
Speaker: Dr Patrick Pillay
Critical Times, Critical Race Symposium
The symposium, was significant for the Centre particularly for the ways in which the Centre frames its research within qualitative decolonial epistemological paradigms.
Discernment and Radical Engagement
Prof Nadar co-presented a paper with Dr Jodamus at the 2nd annual Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) conference in Mexico City in May 2018
Gender, Religion and Sexuality Conference
This conference hosted by the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu- Natal aimed to bring together scholars and civil society, whose work touched on issues related to gender, religion, and sexuality.
Remembering James Cone, in Conversation with Black Liberation Theology
The collaborative team at UWC partnered with the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University
Expanding Ecumenical ‘Circles’: Religious Pluralism and Feminist Theology in the Study of Religion and Theology
Speaker: Prof Isabel Phiri