The Location of Peoplehood
Presenter: Justin Ashworth, theologian from Duke University
Monday, Mar. 17 at 7 p.m.
Ridenour Room, Dauch College of Business and Economics
War on Democracy film screeningPresenter: Justin Ashworth, theologian from Duke University
Monday, Mar. 17 at 7 p.m.
Ridenour Room, Dauch College of Business and Economics
Tuesday, Mar. 18 at 7 p.m.
Ronk Lecture Hall, Schar College of Education
The Ashland University College of Arts and Sciences' Symposium Against Indifference: Engaging Latin America and the Caribbean hosts back to back events this coming Monday and Tuesday, March 17 and 18. Both events are free and open to the public.
On Monday at 7
p.m. in the Ridenour Room of the Dauch College of Business and
Economics, Justin Ashworth, a scholar of theology and race from
Duke University, offers his presentation titled The Location of
Peoplehood: A Theological Contribution to Immigration Debates. The
program is co-sponsored by the Department of Religion. Ashworth believes that immigration debates in the U.S.
are opportunities for churches to contribute a unique perspective to social
analysis and to rethink the meaning of peoplehood in less racialized ways.
He contends that if Christian theology carefully addresses questions of
belonging such as: Who's in? Who's out? On what basis?-it may be good
news for immigrants and natives alike.
On Tuesday at
7 p.m. in the Ronk Lecture Hall of the Schar College of
Education, the Ashland Center for Nonviolence will screen the film "War
on Democracy" followed by a panel discussion. The award-winning film
by John Pilger takes a provocative look at U.S. relations with Latin American
countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and Chile. Using archive footage sourced
by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial U.S.
intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of legitimate governments
in the Latin American region since the 1950s.
