EVENT
MTSO’s Williams Institute welcomes Gregory Cuéllar for two lectures
Gregory Cuéllar, professor in the Ruth A. Campbell Chair of Biblical Studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, will deliver two lectures at the Williams Institute, presented by Methodist Theological School in Ohio.
Cuéllar’s first lecture, “Lamentations 1: Weaponizing Exile on Confiscated Bodies,” will take place at 7 p.m. Eastern Sept. 23. It will piece together the postcolonial traumatic layers of exile in Lamentations 1.
The second lecture, “Lamentations 2: Macabre Spectacles of Liquidated Bodies,” begins at 10 a.m. Eastern Sept. 24. In it, Cuéllar will evaluate the postcolonial traumatic response to imperial violence in Lamentations 2.
Both lectures are in the Alford Centrum on the campus of MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike in Delaware, Ohio. They are open to all. No registration is required. In addition to the lectures, Cuéllar will preach at MTSO’s weekly chapel at 1 p.m. Eastern Sept. 23 in the Alford Centrum. All are welcome.
Cuéllar holds a Ph.D. from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University.
He is the author of Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century and Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic, both published in 2019. He co-edited Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation and the Bible: A Global Intersectional Perspective, which was published in 2023.
MTSO’s Williams Institute was begun in 1981 to honor the late Dr. Ronald L. Williams, professor of theology from 1971 until his death in 1981. The institute has featured speakers from many backgrounds, including theologians, ethicists, poets, biblical scholars, historians, pastoral psychologists and Christian educators.
Methodist Theological School in Ohio provides theological education and leadership in pursuit of a just, sustainable and generative world. In addition to the Master of Divinity degree, the school offers master’s degrees in public theology, social justice and theological studies, along with a Doctor of Ministry degree.
CONTACT:
Danny Russell, communications director
drussell@mtso.edu, 740-362-3322