October 30, 2021

Dr. Adanna James

12:00 – 1:00 (ET)

The Feminine in Caribbean Life

and Theology:  

female vulnerabilities/possibilities

Dr. Adanna James currently lectures at the Seminary of St John Vianney in Trinidad and has taught courses on Catholic Education, Justice and the Women’s Movement and Feminist Theology. She forms part of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today, an open theological space for Caribbean thinkers. She is also a board member of Bethesda, a Family Ministry in the Catholic Church that attends to families of persons with disabilities.  Dr. James received her PhD from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

July 17, 2021

Dr. Ameena Al Rasheed

12:00 – 1:00pm (ET)

African Muslim identity in a global context

Dr. Ameena Al-Rasheed is Senior Research and Program Advisor on Gender at The United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. Dr. Al Rasheed earned her PhD at the University of Leeds with the thesis, “The Performativity on Muslimness, the intersection of gender, migration and religion in the lives of Sudanese women in West Yorkshire”, which draws on Black feminist epistemology and ethnographic to examine first and second generation Sudanese Muslim women’s formation of identity and belonging in the midst of ‘accepted’ hegemonic Arabic Islam and dominant Christian culture in West Yorkshire, UK. Dr. Al-Rasheed’s deep concern and passion for the lives and wellbeing of African Diaspora peoples and gender and migration justice are central to her research and career trajectory. Join us as we discuss African Muslim identity in a global context, the impact of hegemonic Islam on the health and the wellbeing of African Muslims at home and in the diaspora.