Bampton Lectures 2025
Date
Location
University Church
Lecture 2 “Getting our Feet Wet: Close Reading with Womanist Eyes”
Tuesday 20 May at 11.30am at the University Church
Womanist is a noun referring to bodies of knowledge, ways of reading, and larger intellectual frameworks rooted in the perceptions, experiences and knowledge of black women – including ancestral and academic knowledge, and cultural knowledge, folk knowledge, motherwit and the women’s ways of black women. This lecture will offer a close reading of a biblical text utilizing the methodology that characterises the approach known as “womanist midrash.”