Events

2007-08 LECTURE SERIES

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Tuesday, October 16
noon, Braun Room
Lunch will be provided.

Monica Maher, PhD (Union Theological Seminary)

Colorado Scholar
Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Ethics

Faith and Feminicide in Latin America

Co-sponsored by Nuestra Voz

Thursday, November 1
noon, Braun Room
Lunch will be provided.

Sue Houchins, PhD (Bates College)

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar

Between Hagiography and Slave Narrative: Teresa Chicaba,
an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Tuesday, December 11
5:15 pm, CSWR, Common Room
Reception to accompany.

Joan R. Branham, PhD (Providence College)

WSRP Acting Director and Visiting Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Judaism

Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies and Spaces in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions

Thursday, February 7
5:15 pm, Braun Room
Reception to accompany.

J. Michelle Molina, PhD (University of California, Irvine)

Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity

A Heart-Shaped World: Jesuit Consolation Culture in a Globalizing World (1500-1800)

Tuesday, April 1
5:15 pm, CSWR Common Room
Reception to accompany.

Ronit Irshai, PhD (Bar-Ilan University)

Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Judaism

Toward Building a Gender-Critical Approach to the Philosophy of Halakhah (Jewish Law)

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions

Thursday, May 1
5:15 pm, Braun Room
Reception to accompany.

Miryam Segal, PhD (Indiana University)

Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Judaism

Gender and Authorship in Hebrew Poetry: Scripture,
the National Poet, and the Small Group of Women