8/21 • COMMUNITY, CONNECTION AND CONVERSATION
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 | 10:30 AM | LIVING ETHICS DISCUSSION
Join us for company, connection, and conversation at our Living Ethics Discussion (LED). See THIS WEEK for complete details. |
8/28 • Heschel’s Sabbath Politics and Civil Rights
Fannie Bialek,
Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 | 10:30 AM | PROFESSOR FANNIE BIALEK
Where can we hear prophetic voices to redefine struggles for racial justice in America today? This lecture argues that for Abraham Joshua Heschel, one prophetic force was not a voice but a day on the calendar: the Sabbath day, which arrives to recast or set in relief the rest of our days together. His “Sabbath Politics,” read in this way, illuminates the importance of the struggle against structural injustice and for reparations for the descendants of slaves. Fannie Bialek is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work focuses on contemporary religious and philosophical approaches to interpersonal relationships marked by love, justice, and care, or their absence. She is currently working on her first book, Love in Time, which argues for a consideration of love as a relationship of uncertainty instructive for vulnerabilities in interpersonal relationships and political life. Her second book will be on Abraham Joshua Heschel and radical democratic politics. After graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude, Bialek earned a Ph.D. in Religion and Critical Thought from Brown University, where she then taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor before moving to Washington University in the fall of 2016. Alongside her teaching and research, Bialek has worked in sexual health education and intimate violence response and prevention for over a decade. |