University Communications
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: Feb. 25, 2000
Contact: Elaine Justice, Assistant Director, 404-727-0643, or ejustic@emory.edu

Emory Provost/Theologian Rebecca Chopp To Give Law School's Annual Currie Lecture

WHO: Emory Provost Rebecca Chopp

WHAT: "The Poetics of Testimony" 2000 Currie Lecture in Law and Religion

WHEN: 6 p.m. lecture (pre-lecture reception at 5 p.m.) Tuesday, March 7, 2000

WHERE: Tull Auditorium, Emory Law School, 1301 Clifton Road, Emory campus. For a map of campus, go on-line to www.emory.edu/MAP.

COST: Free. Call 404-727-0699 or e-mail eelliso@law.emory.edu.

Emory Provost Rebecca Chopp is a widely published scholar in Christian theology, women's studies and the role of religion in American public life. Her topic, "The Poetics of Testimony," refers to "those discourses-poetry, novels, theory, theology-that speak of the unspeakable and tell of the suffering and hope of particular communities who have not been authorized to speak."

Chopp's research has focused on feminist, liberation and political theologies. She is the author of "The Praxis of Suffering: An Interpretation of Liberation and Political Theologies" (1986), "The Power to Speak: Feminism, Language, God" (1989), "Reconstructing Christian Theology" and "Saving Work: Feminist Practices of Theological Education" (1995).

Appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory in 1998, Chopp also is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology at Emory's Candler School of Theology and at the Graduate Division of Religion.

The Currie Lecture in Law and Religion, an annual event of Emory Law School's Law and Religion Program, has featured internationally prominent scholars whose expertise has encompassed a broad range of religious and legal issues. Past Currie lecturers have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, theologian Martin Marty, and South African anti-apartheid activist Rev. Allan Boesak and Charles Villa-Vicencio of the University of Cape Town.

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