Upcoming Events

1. AHSC Thursday Lunch Talk

“Counting Time: On Being a ‘Young’ Woman in the (Christian) Academy”

Thursday November 12, 2009
12:30 – 1:15 pm

Anna Howard Shaw Center STH 3rd Floor, Rm. 320

Dr. Jennifer Wright Knust
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
B.S.University of Illinois, Urbana
M.Div. Union Theological Seminary
Ph. D. Columbia University
Ordained American Baptist (USA) pastor

2.  A SPECIAL WRITING WORKSHOP

“How to Construct an Organized Research Paper”

LEARN THE “TEN COMMANDMENTS OF EFFECTIVE ESSAY WRITING”

Led by Dr. Katheryn Pfisterer Darr
Professor of Hebrew Bible

Thursday, November 12, 2009
STH Hartman Room (B-23)
8:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

OR

Friday, November 13, 2009
STH Hartman Room (B-23)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

3. Film screening

JOIN FILMMAKER JAMES AULT FOR A SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF HIS NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM “African Christianity Rising: Stories from Zimbabwe”

Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs Center for Global Christianity & Mission fall 2009 SEMINAR SERIES

JAMES AULT Filmmaker and Author
November 10, 4 pm
STH Room 325

James Ault is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and scholar educated at Harvard and Brandeis (Ph.D. in Sociology). As a student of African politics and culture, he lived and worked in Zambia. His first film, Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church, won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival and his book on that project, Spirit and Flesh (Knopf 2004), was named one of the 5 best nonfiction books of the year. With funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation, he is completing a documentary series on African Christianity from over 300 hours shot in a variety of Christian communities in Ghana and Zimbabwe.

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute on Culture, Religion, & World Affairs (www.bu.edu/cura) and the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University, School of Theology (sthweb.bu.edu/cgcm).