"Queer Scholarship and Queer Activism"
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2011 · Education
Watch video of Jay Michaelson, executive director of Nehirim (a nonprofit which builds community for LGBT Jews, partners and allies), speaking Aug. 4, 2011, on "Queer Scholarship and Queer Activism: Liminality, Identity and the Plight of the 'Good Gays.'" In cooperation with the Human Rights Campaign, the Vanderbilt University Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hosts for the second year their Summer Institute. An ecumenical group of 17 advanced seminary students from around the country and internationally convened at Vanderbilt Divinity School for a series of workshops with and lectures by some of the foremost scholar-activists on issues of religion and sexuality in the U.S.
