Liberation Theology in Latin America:

Poverty, Politics and History

Spring 2011 Events

The Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies is sponsoring a year-long series of events focusing on the intersection of theology, poverty and politics.

Thursday, February 24; 3:10pm; Furman Hall 217
Lecture by Luis Restrepo, University of Arkansas: “Imperial Justice and Andean Rights in 16th Century New Grenada.”

Monday, March 28; 4:10 pm; Buttrick 123
“Ecology, Gender and Liberation in Brazil”. A Roundtable featuring  CLAS Visiting Resource Professor Ivone Gebara.  Reception to follow.

Tuesday, April 5; 3:30pm; Divinity School Art Room
Conversation with Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz “Solentiname: Religion, Art, Politics- Reminiscences and Visions”. Reception sponsored by the Divinty School to follow.

Thursday, April 7; 4pm; All Faith Chapel
Lecture by CLAS Visiting Resource Professor Ivone Gebara “Loving Your Neighbor: Reconstructing Concepts and Symbols from a Feminist Liberation Theology Perspective”.

Thursday, April 14; 4:10pm; Buttrick 206
Lecture by Otto Maduro, “Liberation Theologies 2011: Epistemological and Ethico-Political Questions.”