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PROGRAM

Friday November 1

11am-1pm

Registration

1-1:30pm

Introduction:
Ann Braude, Director, Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School
Welcome:
William A. Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School

1:30-3:30pm

Panel I Religion and "the Movement" 
Charlotte Bunch, President, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutger's University
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Co-founder, Ms. magazine
Roberta Hestenes, minister-at-large, World Vision
Azizah al-Hibri, President, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights 
Moderator: Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School

3:30-4pm

Coffee Break

 4-6pm

Panel II
Feminist Theology I
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School
Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College
Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute
Moderator: Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School

6-8pm

Dinner Break 

8-9:30pm

Mary Daly and the Exodus from Patriarchal Religion
Introduction: Mary Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual
Speaker: Mary Daly

Saturday November 2

7:30-8:30am

Breakfast

8:30-10:30am

Panel III
Feminist Theology II
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew Theological School
Virginia Mollenkott, Founder, Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus
Riffat Hassan, University of Louisville
Moderator: Sarah Coakley, Harvard Divinity School

10:30-11am

Coffee Break

11am-1pm

Panel IV
Women Clergy

Addie Wyatt (Church of God)
Jeanne Audrey Powers (United Methodist Church)
Delores S. Williams, Union Theological Seminary
Betty Bone Schiess (Episcopal Church, USA)
Moderator: Claudia Highbaugh, Chaplain, Harvard Divinity School

1-2pm

Lunch

2-3pm

Religion and the Creation of Feminist Consciousness
Speaker: Gerda Lerner, University of Wisconsin

3-3:30pm

Coffee Break

3:30-5:30pm

Panel V
Outsiders Within

Vicki Noble, Co-creator, Motherpeace Tarot
Lois Wilson, Senator for Human Rights, Ontario, Canada
Margaret Toscano, founder, Mormon Women's Forum
Letty Russell, Yale Divinity School
Moderator: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University

5:30pm

Reception 

 

Sunday November 3

7:30-8:30am

Breakfast

 

8:30-10:30am

Panel VI
Women's Organizations
Nadine Foley, O.P., co-ordinator, first Women's Ordination Conference
Blu Greenberg, President, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Donna Quinn, O.P., co-founder, Women-Church Convergence
Moderator: Nancy Richardson, Harvard Divinity School

10:30-11am

Coffee Break

11am-12:30pm

Closing Discussion
Clarissa Atkinson, Harvard Divinity School
and all conference panelists
Moderator: Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University