From Common Awards
Tickets for the latest Common Awards webinar are now available online. The webinar is entitled: ‘Reproductive Loss and Theological Silences: A Theological Dialogue’ and will take place on Zoom on 06 April at 1pm.
The webinars are aimed at Common Awards students and staff but open to others with an interest in the subject areas addressed. Each webinar will include leading scholars and/or faith practitioners who will offer diverse insights into a range of topics that will directly relate to the core modules taken by Common Awards students.
You can find the recordings of previous CA webinars https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/common-awards/diversity--inclusion/common-awards-webinars-and-resources/
The April webinar in the CA series will take place, via zoom, on the theme: ‘Reproductive Loss and Theological Silences: A Theological Dialogue’ on 6 April at 1pm. Tickets are available here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reproductive-loss-and-theological-silences-a-theological-dialogue-tickets-294165867027
The webinar will be an opportunity to engage with Dr Karen O’Donnell who will be discussing key themes in her latest book entitled: The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss (SCM Press, 2022). The book explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins.
Dr O’Donnell is a feminist, ecumenical, practical theologian whose interdisciplinary research interests span theology, spirituality, and pedagogy. Her most recent publications are in the field of trauma theology where she has been particularly focused on feminist and intersectional approaches to trauma theology.
Dr O’Donnell will be joined by Prof Susannah Cornwall, Professor of Constructive Theology at Exeter University. Prof Cornwall has done a great deal of work in contextual theologies, particularly those relating to sex, gender and sexuality. Her publications include Un/familiar Theology: Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity, (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), Theology and Sexuality (SCM Press, 2013), Controversies in Queer Theology (SCM Press, 2011), Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ (Routledge, 2010). You can find out more here.
The webinar will be hosted by Anupama Ranawana, a theologian and political economist with several years of experience working in academia and international development. Her research and teaching expertise and interests are focussed on gender and justice, decolonial thought, diversifying research methodological practice, religious thought in the Global South, faith and international development and the intersections between racial and climate justice. She holds advanced degrees in Theology and International Politics. She teaches a module on Global Justice for the Queens Foundation, is a research advisor for Christian Aid, and is primarily working on a monograph on Asian feminist theology and literature at the University of St Andrews.
Please note that a BSL interpreter will be present at this event.