A multi-media performance work of collaboration between five departments which integrates dance, choral music, animation, and projected imagery. The Water Project explores all things water: its sacred essence and beauty, its positive and destructive power, and humanity’s role in controlling and commodifying water. This performance addresses our strong reliance on water and the impending crisis that could impact life as we know it today.

A talk back will follow the Friday & Saturday shows.

A public talk by Dr. Iris Stewart-Frey (Environmental Science) and Dr. Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering)

Professor Boepple will devote his recital to masterworks by two of his favorite composers, J. S. Bach and Frederic Chopin. Included will be Bach’s Partita No. 4 and Chopin’s Barcarolle and Scherzo No. 2.

Robert Audi, PhD., the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, draws connections between religious philosophy and the vaccination concerns that dominate public discourse.

This October Conversation is an opportunity to engage with Shá Duncan Smith, the new Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Alison Benders, the new Vice President for Mission and Ministry.

The monthly Community Conversations (held typically on the first Tuesday of the month), started in Fall 2019, and are open to all members of the SCU community (students, faculty, staff and alumni).  No RSVP is required.

Join the Rainbow Resource Center as we host a night with BD Wong, the 2021-22 Frank Sinatra Artist-in-Residence. We will hear from BD about his experience with BIPOC/LGBTQ+ activism while discussing LGBTQ+ history. The program will end with a Q&A with BD. Livestream available. To attend live, RSVP by Monday, Oct. 4, 11:59 p.m.

Join this year’s Sinatra Artist-in-Residence BD Wong for a performance kicking off his residency at Santa Clara University. In person tickets are reserved for students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University. The general public will be able to view the event via livestream. Registration will open soon.

As regressive forces in America are fighting hard to halt democratic multiculturalism, journalists are coming under siege.  Caught between the forces, the journalistic press is not equipped to “meet the moment”.  Subbu Vincent, Director of Journalism and Media Ethics, will address the question of how journalism might take a leading role in the battle between democratic and anti-democratic forces. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Katherine Saxton, associate professor of biology & public health, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University reviews the process that the COVID-19 vaccination has to undergo to receive FDA approval, as well as persistent myths that are fueling COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and the Mira & Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies for a conversation between Jai Chakrabarti and Dan Schifrin about Chakrabarti's dazzling debut novel, A Play for the End of the World (Knopf). The book, which takes place during the Warsaw Ghetto and 1970s India, is a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present. Chakrabarti and Schifrin will discuss the intersections of Indian and Jewish culture, and the complicated ethics of literary channeling vs. cultural borrowing.

Join a new student-led peer discussion and networking group focused on articulating one's faith and listening to one another in the context of global religious and spiritual pluralism. The group has two goals: a) provide GTU students practice in talking about tough issues that divide us in a peer setting, and b) help us develop a network of fellow interfaith-minded individuals in other faith traditions with our future work as leaders in mind. The group assumes global pluralism, and is not meant to be a space for evangelism, convincing anyone of anything, or working toward cultural or religious hegemony. It is rather about continuing to talk with each other, and especially continuing to listen.

For further information, contact Phillip Lienau, CDSP student, at plienau@ses.cdsp.edu. Contact Chai Motupalli, cmotupalli@gtu.edu or Spencer Hatcher, shatcher@cdsp.edu for the zoom link.

In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Kendra Twenter centers women of the Bible who were abused, unnamed, and used to justify the inappropriate crossing of boundaries.  Based upon a video series that she created for her Final Project for a Certificate of Sexuality & Religion from Pacific School of Religion, Kendra will discuss some essential aspects of kink and sex as they appear in the biblical accounts of Bathsheba, the Whore of Babylon, and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  She will also explore aspects of the ongoing abuse and mistreatment of women today.

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).

Join us as we explore CLGS’ new LGBTQ+ Latinx Health Guide on HIV/AIDS for Faith Communities with Carolina Ramos!

From the earliest centuries to today, humans have mapped one sacred landscape onto another to engender an experience of closeness to their ancestors, to their homeland, or to the divine. It is a practice that crosses cultures and time – from the Jain mandalas linked to far-away Mount Meeru to seven-circuit labyrinths in turf and stone. Such kinetic, synesthetic, and haptic artistic expressions have taken on a particular urgency in this time of pandemic as travel was curtailed and loved ones were far out of reach. In this talk Dr. Kathryn Barush will explore the idea of installation art as an embodied experience of pilgrimage that helps foster a sense of connection and communitas.

Veiled metaphors and transgressive embodiments of Hebrew and Greek bibles have been ignored, forgotten or intentionally omitted forgotten.  Using early Christian and Medieval art as inspiration, Bishop Rohrer will make an unapologetic case for reading scripture with a genuinely trans aesthetic.

The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/he) is the first openly transgender Bishop of a mainline Christian denomination, currently serving as Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). 

The film, The Ark, invites the viewer to process the changes they too have experienced over the past year and offers ancient Jewish wisdom for how we can find wholeness in this uncertain transitional moment. Nessa will talk about the important role of queer narratives in the work of building a more equitable, compassionate society.

Join CARe in celebrating the release of Dr. Kathryn Barush's newly published book, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience.

Hosted by the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good in the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society in partnership with the Theology Department of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, the conference will bring together a distinguished group of scholars–from Boston College, across the United States, and internationally–in ethics, law, public policy, economics, global public health, and cancer prevention to examine the ethical challenges facing global cancer control in the 21st century.

This dialogue is an extension of the Theology on Tap programs of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and the Salt and Light and Latino Leader Gatherings of the Initiative. The Archdiocese and Initiative are grateful to Scholas Occurrentes for their partnership with this gathering.

All who have RSVP’d will receive an email with instructions on how to join the livestream.