Women’s Voices, Exceptional Conversations Series

“Women’s Voices, Exceptional Conversations”: RIOTconversations Podcast Series 

“Women’s Voices, Exceptional Conversations” is a six-part podcast series featuring women from diverse faith backgrounds engaged in profound dialogue designed to address critical intersections of gender, religion, and social justice issues.

EPISODE I. Former CTS President and current Professor of Theology Susan Thistlethwaite hosts two conversations, one with Judith Plaskow, ground-breaking Jewish feminist and author of the classic book, Standing Again at Sinai and Manal Omar, Associate Vice-President for the Center for the Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace, who was named as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world.

EPISODE II. CTS Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow of the InterReligious Institute, Rabbi Dr. Rachel S. Mikva, hosts Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College speaks with Yavilah McCoy, a teacher, writer, diversity consultant, and gifted performer and Fawzia Mirza, a film and television actress, writer, producer, and comedian.

EPISODE III. Interfaith Youth Core Campus Engagement Manager Carolyn Roncolato serves as the moderator for a dialogue between Jerusha Lamptey, Assistant Professor of Islam and Ministry and Director of the Islam, Social Justice, and Interreligious Engagement Program at Union Theological Seminary and Monica Coleman, Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology.

EPISODE IV. Concluding the series, Najeeba Syeed, Associate Professor of Interreligious Education and the founder and Director of the Center for Global Peacebuilding at Claremont Graduate University facilitates a discussion between Kathleen Moore, Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Jane Iwamura, Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of the West.

EPISODE V. CTS Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow of the InterReligious Institute, Rabbi Rachel S. Mikva speaks with Yavilah McCoy teacher, writer, diversity consultant, and gifted performer, and Fawzia Mirza a film and television actress, writer, producer, and comedian.

EPISODE VI. Najeeba Syeed, Associate Professor of Interreligious Education and Founder and Director of Center for Global Peacebuilding at Claremont Graduate University facilitates a discussion among Kathleen Moore, Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, and Jane Iwamura, Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of the West.

These podcast episodes are available below and on CTS’s Soundcloud page (http://soundcloud.com/ctschicago)