Experience a new devised digital piece exploring the climate crisis written and performed by SCU students. 

Help the Cowell Center launch May Mental Health Month and Suicide Awareness Week by joining us in a “necessary” conversation on suicide awareness. During this event, Cowell Center therapists and guests will discuss what we can all do to stay alert, share personal stories of impact, and discuss ways we can all do our part.

The May Community Conversation will provide a space for the SCU community to talk about current events in the world  beyond our campus, and how these events are affecting each of us. The ongoing pandemic, voting rights, the politicization of public health, gun violence, racism: these are just a few of the issues that affect us locally, nationally and globally.

Please join CAH Faculty Fellow Robin Tremblay-McGaw (English) for a reading and discussion on the construction of whiteness in art, films and culture.

Professor Inês Vitorino Sampaio will discuss digital inequalities among Brazilian youth and implications for social justice.

An experiential workshop that helps you stay refreshed, energized, and sane while tackling the climate crisis.

As part of our 2020-21 Global Community Hour series, our Spring Quarter panel will explore Racial Justice in a Global Context.

Join R. Eric Thomas, national best-selling author, and Dr. Danielle Morgan, assistant professor of English at SCU, as they talk about why pop culture matters and writing about current events with joy and rigor.

Please join SCU's Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries in understanding the ethics of local listening and how it impacts our call to accompaniment and solidarity. Meghan Clarke is an associate professor of Theology at St. John's University in NY.

In this session, you will learn how to tap into resilience and identify strategies that help you achieve extraordinary levels of excellence in the face of stress and change. Be prepared to reach new levels of personal performance in this training. Registration is limited.

Utilizing the tool of racial microaggressions, Dr. Lindsay Pérez Huber provides an understanding of how everyday and systemic racism emerges in schools, colleges, and universities, and how it negatively impacts Students of Color. She provides strategies to disrupt everyday racism and what institutions need to consider to move toward racial equity.

20 year after the publication of the book "Queer Jews," the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) is hosting a symposium in honor of the role the book played in re-imagining the American and global Jewish worlds, and in memory of co-editor David Schneer’s many gifts and contributions to queer Jewish life.

Nearly 50 years ago, the members of the Berkeley-based Radical Jewish Union (RJU) staged a Sit-In at the Jewish Community Federation in San Francisco to advocate for much more robust community support of Jewish Education. The 50th anniversary of “The Sit-In for Jewish Education” will serve as the springboard for a virtual program that will encompass major developments in the field over the past 50 years (specifically in the Bay Area Jewish community, but also in the US in general and in Israel) and some reflections about future trends. 

The Interreligious Chaplaincy Program invites students, faculty, staff, friends and family to this virtual prayer service. This online event will highlight blessings, songs, prayers and ceremonies from a variety of world religious traditions. 

GTU Doctor of Ministry Student Rev. Dionne Carter will be leading our last Art Break of the semester! Rev. Carter will discuss her own art practice and how it has been shaped by her academic research and study.

In this Lavender Lunch Ọyasùúrù Ifáwárìnwa, an Iyanifa (an initiated IFA priest), discusses understandings of sexuality, gender, and play in Ifá, a Yoruba religion.  Drawing upon the ancient and vibrant proverbs, poems, and stories of the Ifá tradition, Ọyasùúrù Ifáwárìnwa will explore some of the ways in which gender, sexuality, and play interact in this ancient, rich, and living religious tradition.

This lecture is aimed to focus a positive light on Women's Studies as a pathway or focus area of specialization that many graduate schools might have; yet are we under-utilizing this opportunity, even at the GTU?! 

Join us for a conversation on Psychoanalysis in Judaism and Islam with Dr. Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) and Dr. Omnia El Shakry (UC Davis).

Dr. Seidman's talk is titled "Dreaming in Yiddish: Freud's Jewish Languages" and will explore the Jewish languages embedded in a number of Freud's dreams through the lens of the Hebrew and Yiddish translation of his work. Dr. El Shakry's talk is titled “Psychoanalysis and Islam: Translation and Tradition in Modern Egypt” and will explore the intersections between the psychoanalytic and Islamic mystical traditions, asking what it might mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a ‘problem,’ but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement.

In the wake of George Floyd’s killing nearly one year ago, local and state governments have passed dozens of police oversight laws aimed at curbing the use of excessive force. Even with the conviction of Derek Chauvin in Floyd’s murder, police still mostly enjoy impunity as they continue to kill at the same rates since 2013, with Black and Brown people still targeted disproportionately.

What will it take to stop the killings and create real accountability and community safety? Anti-racism author, attorney, and scholar Dr. Jacqueline Battalora is also a former Chicago police officer. She knows first hand that white supremacy and misogyny are at the root of the problem - within recruitment, training, and police culture and in police academies, departments, and associations. After all, a society steeped in racialized and gendered ideas about bodies, reflects them in its structures and systems, assumptions and expectations.  Sliding scale: $5 - $25.