Learning to Speak a New Tongue: Imagining a Way That Holds People Together
Fumitaka Matsuoka, Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theology at the Pacific School of Religion
& PANA Executive Director,
will deliver the 2008 GTU Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
"Asian Americans have learned to speak a "second tongue" along with the
historically constructed American "first tongue" of democratic freedom.
Our second tongue may provide a clue to forging a new architecture
toward building a peoplehood in an increasingly interrelated and yet
fragmented world in which Americans live."
Respondent: Judith Berling, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions, Graduate Theological Union
Location: PSR Chapel, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley.
Contact: Angela Munoz, Administrative Assistant to the GTU Dean. amunoz@gtu.edu, 510-649-2440.
Reception to follow in the Bade Museum.