Research and Service to the Christian community of South Africa on public affairs.

Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians Day Conference on GENDER AND EDUCATION

DATE: FRIDAY 4 MAY 2012

VENUE: Hofmeyr lecture room, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University

PROGRAMME

08:00 – 08:15         Registration

08:15 – 08:30         Welcome and Arrangements - Julie Claassens

08:30 – 10:30         Session 1 (Chair Julie Claassens)

Gender and Education: Feminism Matters in the 21st Century - Miranda N. Pillay

Making the Silence Visible - Charlene van der Walt

Addressing Domestic Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Religious Leaders and Faith Communities to become part of the Solution - Elizabeth Petersen

10:30 – 11:00         Tea

11:00 – 13:00         Session 2 (Chair Miranda Pillay)

Towards a Logic of Dignity: Educating Against Gender-Based Violence - Juliana Claassens

Talking About Violence Against Women in the Church - Ilse Ahrends

Gender, Ubuntu and Violence - Gerrit Brand

13:00 – 14:00         Lunch

14:00 – 16:00         Session 3 (Chair Elna Mouton)

Gender Mainstreaming as Strategy Towards Gender Equality - Trunette Joseph

“Wicked” Problems and “Messes” - Francine Becker

From Therapy to Community Involvement: Raising Awareness of Child Sexual Abuse in a Xhosa school and Township Community - Elize Morkel & Nobuntu Matholeni

16:00 – 16:30         The Way Forward

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Click here for the abstracts and registration form.

For more information, contact Helette van der Westhuizen at hvdwest@sun.ac.za

You are kindly invited to a lecture by Prof Bram van de Beek on the theme: Church and Agapocracy: The Rule of Love. The lecture will take place on Tuesday 27 March 2012 from 17h30 – 19h00 in the Hofmeyr lecture hall.

Christians claim that their religion is a religion of love because they confess that their God is a God of love. Christian love does not have to do so much with feelings than with acts. Can people trust you? Even your enemies? This rule should be decisive for social structures within the church and it is a gift if this should be the case in society at large as well. Good government is neither the fulfillment of the will of one person, a selected group, nor even that of a democratic majority; it is the fulfillment of the command to love. Read more

Die Afdeling Gemeenskapsinteraksie (AGI), die Beyers Naudé Sentrum vir Publieke Teologie (BNS) en die Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Instituut (FVZS Instituut) vir Studenteleierskapsontwikkeling nooi u hiermee hartlik uit na ‘n openbare lesing as deel van die institusionele vieringe van Menseregtedag van die Universiteit Stellenbosch. Read more