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Border Crossings: 25th Anniversary Conference of the Women's Studies in Religion Program
(February 2006)
Session I: National Borders/Gender Borders
The 130 Research Associates who have participated in the Women's Studies in Religion Program have helped create a new field of scholarship shedding light on a host of issues concerning intellectual categories, public policies, and personal understandings. To celebrate the work of both past and future scholars in the program, the 25th Anniversary Conference focused on how their work both complicates and clarifies categories of gender, nation, and disciplinary studies in the context of globalization.
In this session, keynote speaker Peggy Levitt introduced her work on transnational identities among new immigrant groups, examining models of citizenship that emerge when religious rather than political affiliations serve as the matrix for locating oneself in the world. Respondents Constance Buchanan, Paula Hyman, and Emilie Townes placed her discussion in the context of critical studies of religion and gender, exploring how this new field contributes to conversations about transnationalism, globalization, and
citizenship.
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Peggy Levitt delivering the keynote address. (Photo: Maggie
Mastricola).
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