Calendar 2005-06
February
02 Thursday 5:15 pm
Forum on Women in Ministry.
Sponsored by the Office of Ministry Studies. Sperry Room. Reception to follow in the Braun Room.
Four gifted recent graduates will speak with us about their experiences as women working in a variety of forms of ministry and their hopes for future generations of women ministers.
The Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97, Harvard Divinity School; pastor, Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plain, MA; pediatrician, South End Community Heath Center; anti-slavery activist and co-founder of My Sister's Keeper.
Liz Walker, MDiv '05, Harvard Divinity School; award-winning television journalist; anti-slavery activist and co-founder of My Sister's Keeper; ordination candidate in the AME church.
The Rev. Elizabeth Myer-Boulton, MDiv '02, University of Chicago Divinity School; pastor-developer of a dynamic new congregation, Hope Church (Disciples of Christ/UCC), Jamaica Plain, MA.
Jordie Gerson, MTS '04, Harvard Divinity School; educator; writer on interfaith and human rights issues; rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
03 Friday 10 am-5:30 pm
Border Crossings: 25th Anniversary Conference of the Women's Studies in Religion Program.
The Women's Studies in Religion Program's Research Associates have helped create a new field of scholarship shedding light on a host of issues concerning intellectual categories, public policies, and personal understandings. The 25th Anniversary Conference celebrates how their work both complicates and clarifies categories of gender, nation, and disciplinary studies in the context of globalization. See the 25th Anniversary Conference website to view the program and register online.
14 Tuesday 7:30 pm
16 Thursday 7:30 pm
18 Thursday 7:30 pm
The Vagina Monologues
HDS faculty, students, and staff will participate in V-Day, an international movement to end violence against women, with performances of Eve Ensler's comic celebration of female sexuality. Andover Chapel.
16 Thursday noon
"Denaturing Earth: The Ground and Groundlessness of Ecofeminist Theology."
A luncheon seminar with Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions. CSWR Common Room. Lunch will be served; reservations required; call 617.495.4476.
23 Thursday noon
"Religious Relationships in Devotional Poetry: Gender and Genre in Renaissance Christianity."
Constance Furey, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and History of Christianity. Women's Studies in Religion Program Lecture Series. Braun Room.
