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Marie Griffith delivers Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s 2021 Cole Lecture

Griffith’s lecture is the latest for the series, which began in 1892.

Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, delivered the 2021 Cole Lecture for the Vanderbilt University Divinity School on October 11, 2021 via Zoom.

Her lecture was titled “Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in the Religions That Have Shaped Us.” Watch a recording of the lecture here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=304711331056822

Philanthropist Edmund W. Cole, president of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and treasurer of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, endowed the annual Cole Lecture Series in 1892 “for the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion.” Cole’s gift provided for the first sustained lectureship in the history of Vanderbilt University.

The lectures have been delivered by such distinguished scholars as Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, Rudolph Bultmann, H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Walter Brueggemann, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, James Barr, Gustavo Gutierrez, James Cone, Edward Farley, Don Beisswenger, Gene TeSelle, David Buttrick, Jim Wallis, Lamin Sanneh, Mark Noll, Randall Balmer, James Lawson, John O’Malley, R. Scott Appleby, M. Shawn Copeland and many others.
The Cole Lectures are free and open to the public.

Click here for a complete list of Cole Lectures from 1894-2015.