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The Women's Studies Program presents the Adrenee Glover Freeman Lecture in African American Women's Studies at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at Gambrell Hall Auditorium on the University of South Carolina campus.
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes will speak on "Symbiosis, Cooperation, and Community: The Politics of Black Women’s Faith." A reception will follow her lecture. Both events are free and open to the public.
Gilkes is the John D. and Catherine R. MacArthur Chair of Sociology and African American Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is one of the pioneers in the development of womanist approaches to society and religion. She significantly contributed to the development of contemporary religious studies through her use of sociological methodologies as she researched African American women's and men's religious lives.
Gilkes has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from Ursinus College (2006); the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Black Religious Scholars Group (2005); and the Visionary Clergy Leadership Award form the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute (2004).
This event is being co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the African American Studies Program, and the Department of Religious Studies.
For more information, call Women's Studies at 7-4007 or go to www.cas.sc.edu/wost.
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Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
