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2007-2008 |
September 30
Bracing for Creationism in the Islamic World
Dr. Salman Hameed will give a public lecture in our Science and Religion Lecture Series.
Salman Hameed is Assistant Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College and an astronomer at Five College Astronomy Department. His science and religion research focuses on understanding modern creation movements in the Islamic world, reconciliation efforts over sacred objects and places of astronomical importance (such as Mauna Kea in Hawaii), and creationism in UFO religions. He currently teaches inter-disciplinary classes on history and philosophy of science and religion, science in the Islamic world, and science and public policy.
Dr. Hameed’s lecture will be givin on Tuesday, September 30, at 7:00 p.m. in the Skutt Student Center Room 105. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Henry W. Casper Professorship in History.
November 6-7
Women, Gender, and Religion
The Kripke Center symposium bring together twenty scholars – from Creighton and other prominent universities – to address the diverse ways in which women, religion, and issues of gender shape each other.
The symposium will take place on Thursday and Friday, November 6-7, from 9:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. in the Skutt Student Center room 105.
Participants in the symposium include:
Bridget Blomfield (University of Nebraska-Omaha), “Hijab, Hip-Hop, and Haram: Identities of Shi’a Muslim College Women”
Eileen Burke-Sullivan (Creighton University), “Women in the Crucible of Change: Exemplars of the Influence of Women on Ecclesial and Civil Structures in the years between 1450 and 1700”
Susan Calef (Creighton University), “Kephale, Coverings, and Cosmology: The Impenetrable Logic of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16”
Christina Clark (Creighton University), “To Kneel or not to Kneel: Gendered Nonverbal Behavior in Ancient Greek and Roman Ritual”
Sue Crawford (Creighton University), “Does the Personal Become Political?: Political Leadership of Women Clergy on Discrimination Issues”
Kathleen Cummings (University of Notre Dame), “‘The Wageless Work of Paradise’: Integrating Women into American Religious History”
Barbara J. Dilly (Creighton University), “Persephone and Susanna in The Garden: Patriarchal Seductions of Nature and Virtue”
Heather Fryer (Creighton University), “Viking Quest: Rosalie Wax’s Ethnographic Search for a German-American Lutheran Identity”
Leonard Greenspoon (Creighton University), “From One Megillah to Multiple Midrashim: How Jewish Exegetes Have Viewed Queen Esther and Queen Vashti”
Bridget Keegan (Creighton University), “Post-Romantic Ecofeminist Spirituality: Mary Oliver's Religion of Nature”
Tracy Leavelle (Creighton University), “Women, Gender, and Indigenous Christianities in Colonial North America”
Gary Macy (University of Santa Clara), “What Does the Ordination of Women Then Mean for Women Now?”
Carolyn Osiek (Chicago Theology Union), “The Ordained Women of the Early Church: Their Story”
Ronald A. Simkins (Creighton University), “Gender, the Environment, and Sin in Genesis”
Amy E. Wendling (Creighton University), “Rough, Foul-Mouthed, Boys: Working Class Gender and the Family in the 19th Century”
Wendy M. Wright (Creighton University), “The Ideal Woman Religious as Refracted in the 19th-century Année Sainte of the Visitation of Holy Mary”
The papers will be published in the Supplement Series of the Journal of Religion & Society
