Community Luncheon with APII's Fall Lecture

Asian and Pacific Islander Initiative (APII) is an organization housed in PSR since 2010, succeeding two historic organizations:PACTS (Pacific Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies) and PANA (Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion).Its mission is simple: supporting API scholarship, students, and local communities so that they can be heard and impactful in a larger community.

Asian and Pacific Islander Initiative at Pacific School of Religion

The Asian and Pacific Islander Initiative (APII) at PSR is pleased to invite all PSR and GTU students, staff, and faculty to its annual community luncheon. The purpose of this event is twofold. First, it is to serve the community with food, encouraging all for their endeavors in this new academic year. Second, it is to provide a venue to think about an important topic that might aid our theological and philosophical work. A meal of delicious Asian food will be served (free but RSVP recommended) followed by Rev. Dr. Boopalan’s lecture titled “Limits of Liminality: Rethinking Categories of Identity.”
 
Rev. Dr. Boopalan is an ordained minister in the progressive Baptist tradition. He completed his Ph.D. in Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary in May 2016. His book, Memory, Grief, and Agency: A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is the outcome of his tenure at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, where he served as Postdoctoral Fellow. Contrary to the Enlightenment optimism that particular human identities will give way to rational approaches in democratic practice, identities—religious, ethnic, and a myriad of others—are increasingly becoming rigid, nonporous, and unhelpfully antagonistic. His talk will build on the findings of his recent book in order to propose how individuals and churches can play a positive role in an increasingly racialized American sociopolitical life.
 
This event is co-sponsored by Equality Labs, which is a South Asian American human rights start-up working at the intersection of story, art, and security. Link to their webpage: <A HREF="https://www.equalitylabs.org" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.equalitylabs.org</A>.

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