The professor and advocate will discuss the cultural significance of the death of Matthew Shepard, ten years after his death.
Posted on: September 25, 2008
The stark brutality of the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard shocked the country. In the ten years since his death, Matthew Shepard's name has been attached not only to anti-hate crime legislation, but continues to be evoked by countless foundations and organizations devoted to tolerance and diversity.
In Elmhurst College’s second annual G.L.B.T. Lecture, Rev. Dr. Joan M. Martin examines Shepard's legacy and the culture at large. Martin will deliver her lecture, “Remembering Matthew W. Shepard: The Necessity of Historical Memory and The Virtue of Ordinary, Everyday Courage,” on Thursday, October 9, at 4:00 p.m. in Illinois Hall (located in the Schaible Science Center, corner of Prospect and Elm Park avenues). Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Now an associate professor at Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts, Martin is an activist and scholar widely recognized for her participation in (and writing on behalf of) domestic and international social justice issues. She was co-chairwoman of the Boston-based Women’s Theological Center and has been an advisor to the Interregional Women’s Commission of the World Student Christian Federation, and an advocate in reproductive rights, anti-racism movements, and interfaith worker justice movements.
Martin is the author of many works, including More than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women (Westminster) and “Religion and Empire,” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.Her areas of interest and research include: Christian social ethics; African American, feminist, and liberation ethics; ethics of vocation, work, and economics from a Christian perspective; and social movements and theories and the Church. She is a member of the Elmhurst College Class of 1973.
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