Events

Gender Studies and Religious Subjects: Perspectives Across Disciplines

Friday February 23, 2006
9:30 am	Coffee outside the Sperry Room
10 am-noon	Panel I: Identity and Difference Session chair: Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Gender Identity and Sexual Differences in Buddhist Monasticism Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School Expressive Cultures of Religious Women in the African Diaspora Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Modeling Religious Expression in Poetry: Olga Sedakova and Elena Shvarts Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University
noon-1 pm	Lunch in the Braun Room
1-3 pm	Panel II: Theory and Politics Session chair: Karen King, Harvard Divinity School The Metaphysical Turn in Contemporary Feminist Theory Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School Women in African-American Fraternalism Theda Skocpol, Harvard University Secularist Narratives and Feminist Historiography Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University
3-3:30 pm	Break
3:30-5:30 pm	Panel III: Agency and Social Context Session chair: Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School The Social Contexts of Scientific Inquiry Evelynn M. Hammonds, Harvard University Unpacking "Piety Politics" in the Suburbs of Beirut Lara Deeb, University of California, Irvine Gender Theory and American Religious History R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University
5:30-6:30 pm	Reception in the Braun Room