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Helene Slessarev-Jamir to Give Inaugural
Lecture
September 18 (Thursday), 2008
4:30 p.m. in Mudd Theater
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Lecture Here [.pdf]
Dr. Helene Slessarev-Jamir, the Mildred M. Hutchinson Professor
of Urban Ministries at Claremont, will give her inaugural lecture this
month on the topic “Prophetic Activism in an Age of Empire: Provoking
the Mainline.”
Inaugural lectures are customary for new faculty. Slessarev-Jamir
joined the Claremont faculty in the fall of 2006 but took research leave
last year to work on her forthcoming book, which produced the material
on which this lecture is based.
Slessarev-Jamir holds the Ph.D. in political science from
University of Chicago, as well as degrees in economics and public policy
analysis from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Illinois,
respectively. She teaches and researches on issues related to faith-based
social engagement, including community organizing, ministry among immigrant
communities, and urban poverty in a global economy.
She is author of The
Betrayal of the Urban Poor and has written two major reports for
the Annie E. Casey Foundation on the role of faith-based institutions
in strengthening the families of poor and disadvantaged Asian and Hispanic
immigrants.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Sojourners
Magazine and the National Hispanic/Latino Ministry Plan committee of the
UMC, and is a member of First United Methodist and Grand Avenue United
Methodist in Santa Ana, Calif.
Panel Participants
A panel of experts will discuss the lecture immediately
following. The panel includes:
- Jean
Schroedel, Professor and Chair of Politics and Policy at Claremont
Graduate University
- Marvin
Sweeney, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology
- Richard
Amesbury, Associate Professor of Ethics at Claremont
School of Theology
- Mark
Whitlock, Senior Pastor of Christ our Redeemer AME Church
(Irvine, Calif.)
- Young
Lee Hertig, Regional Director/Vice-President of the Institute
for the Study of Asian American Christianity (ISSAC); Chair of AAWOL
(Asian American Women On Leadership); and Lecturer in Global Studies
and Sociology at Azusa Pacific University
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