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2008-2009 |
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 (Santa Clara University), “What Does the Ordination of Women Then Mean for Women Now?”
Carolyn Osiek (Brite Divinity School), “The Ordained Women of the Early Church: Their Story”
Ronald A. Simkins (Creighton University), “Gender, Ecology, 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
November 12
The Impact of the Holocaust on Christian Theology
Professor Mary C. Boys will speak on the impact that the Holocaust has had and should have on Christian theology for this year’s Holocaust Lecture Series.
Mary Boys is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Professor Boys has written and spoken widely on Jewish-Christian Relations. Recent Books include: Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other (co-author, 2006); Seeing Judaism Anew: Christianity's Sacred Obligation (editor, 2005); Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding. A Stimulus Book (2001). She serves on several boards involved with interreligious understanding, including the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education. She was the recipient in 2005 of the Sternberg Award from the International Council of Christians and Jews.
The lecture will be given on Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Harper Center ballroom (A & B). The lecture is free and open to the public.
March 29
Faith and the Environment
The Kripke Center is sponsoring a conference on how faith can inspire us to improve our environment. The faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will be considered.
The conference will be held in the Harper Center Ballroom, Sunday, March 29, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. The conference is co-sponsored by Project Interfaith (http://www.projectinterfaithusa.org)
