I don’t know if your social media feed is like mine, but I need some good news right now. Sowing the Seed is doing its part to cleanse your timeline with news of our upcoming program for graduate students and scholars of scriptures, Off-Script!
On Friday October 25, from Noon to 1pm (Central), Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo will be leading our Zoom conversation; the topic, “Studying Scriptures, Studying Latina/o/es in the US.” Dr. Hidalgo is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She has long been a mover and shaker in biblical studies. Take a glimpse of how her facutly page describes her work:
A student of scriptures as human social phenomena focusing on the Christian New Testament and its reception, she also examines how and why certain Latina/o/x communities make, contest, and refashion their own scriptures. As a consequence, she researches at the intersections of scriptures, apocalypticism, utopianism, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion relationally in the U.S. and in relationship to deep histories in the Americas and the ancient Mediterranean. She teaches courses in biblical studies.
USD Faculty Page
Dr. Hidalgo is the author of provocative, field-pushing works that includine Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies (Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 3, no. 4 (2020): 1-98).
Personally, her joining us is a real treat for me because Prof. Hidalgo has been a great example of a schoalr who takes the study of scriptures and brings it to various discourses–be it biblical studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, or elsewhere. I’m looking forward to what she brings to us and the conversation that will follow.
We hope you’ll join us! You can register here.
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