OPEN LECTURE: Race, Religion, and Culture: How Film Can Help Us Have Hard Conversations about the Things That Matter
19th October - 19th October 2024
At 5pm on Saturday 19th October
Individual £10 tickets are available to people not on the Reel Conversations course. Click here to book.
Great stories shape us and change us. They also mirror the tensions and cultural climate of their times. In this conversation with Warden Andrea Russell, Professors Anthony Reddie and Greg Garrett will reflect on the insights film can offer, how they can help drive lively conversations about issues like race, and how their own friendship and shared work has grown up around discussions of film, race, and religion.
Dr. Anthony Reddie is Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture. A widely published liberation theologian and editor of the international journal Black Theology, Dr. Reddie has lectured and taught widely in the UK and abroad, including recent appearances at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, and the Greenbelt Festival.
Dr. Greg Garrett is the Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture at Baylor University in Texas. He is the author of 30 books, including A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation, and has spoken at the American Library in Paris, the Edinburgh International Festival of Books, and on numerous occasions at Gladstone's Library.
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