Dominican University’s Siena Center will host noted theologian Jeanette Rodriguez for its annual Mazzuchelli Lecture on Tuesday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Martin Recital Hall at Dominican’s Main Campus, 7900 Division Street, River Forest.
Rodriguez, a professor of theology at Seattle University, will speak on “Resistance, Faith and Social Change.” The interdisciplinary lecture will examine the common “blood” that binds neighbor to neighbor and generation to generation. This connectedness derives much of its strength from cultural memory and is often rooted in religion. Rodriguez will examine the icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe as an example of a cultural memory that binds a people.
She is the founding director of the Study of Justice in Society at the University of Seattle and a prolific author. Her most recent book, Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith and Identity, was published in 2007. She is a former recipient of the Sor Juana Ines do la Cruz Professorship of Latina Feminist Theology at Duke University and is a former recipient of the U.S. Catholic Award. She received her PhD in religion from the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Mazzuchelli Lecture is held in honor of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, who founded the Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation in 1847. The Sinsinawa Dominicans founded what is now Dominican University in 1901. For more information about Mazzuchelli’s life, visit http://www.dom.edu/about/Mission-History/Our-Founder/.
Admission is free. For more information or tickets, contact the Siena Center at (708) 714-9105.
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Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master’s degrees through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Professional and Continuing Studies. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2012 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master’s level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of three “Great Schools at a Great Price” in Illinois.
