The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge welcomes the community to Lunch With the League from 11:30 AM EST – 1:00 PM EST on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, 809 Oak Ridge Turnpike. All are welcome to bring their lunch or purchase a boxed lunch for a nominal fee. Coffee and tea will be served. The presentation will begin at noon.

Exploring the Links between Religion, Violence, and Gender: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Dr. Rosalind Hackett, PhD, a longstanding faculty member who taught in the Religious Studies Department from 1986-2021, was recently awarded Professor Emerita status. She also served as department head from 2009-2018 and as adjunct in anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From 2003-08 she was a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. She received her PhD in religious studies from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1986 and prior to that taught at Nigerian universities for eight years. In 2000-01 she spent a year at Harvard University as a Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Religion, Harvard Law School, and as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. She was a Rockefeller Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2003-04. She was appointed a Mellon Fellow at the University of Cape Town in Religious Studies in May 2014 and as Gerardus van der Leeuw Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (August-December 2018). She has published extensively in the areas of
indigenous religion, new religious movements, media, gender, art, human rights, and conflict in Africa.

Lunch with the League welcomes League members and nonmembers alike to this informative presentation. The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge is a nonpartisan political organization for men and women. It encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and
advocacy.