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Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past

Schedule of Events

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

Keynote Address, 4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall

Chair: Rosemary Skinner Keller, Union Theological Seminary

"The Presence of Women in American Religion," by Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School

Reception, 5:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
Open to the public.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

Plenary Session on Women and Religion in Early America, 9:00-10:30, Swift Lecture Hall

Chair: Ruth Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles

"The Women of Revelation: Gender and the Making of a Prophet," by Susan Juster, University of Michigan

"Sarah Osborn's Story: Evangelical Women in the Age of Enlightenment," by Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago

Workshops on Women and Religion in Early America, 11:00-12:30

Chair: Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago

"Revelation, Witchcraft, and the Danger of Knowing God's Secrets," by Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon

Chair: Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University

"Puritan Women, Spiritual Power, and the Question of Sexuality," by Marilyn Westerkamp, University of California at Santa Cruz

Chair: Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

"Beyond the Meetinghouse: Gender and Religion in Early America," by Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University

Chair: Ellen Skerrett, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Hail Mary Down by the Riverside: Black and White Catholic Women in Early America," by Emily Clark, Lewis and Clark College

Lunch, 12:30-2:00, Swift Common Room
Box lunches will be available in the Swift Hall Common Room for those who have registered for them in advance.

Plenary Session on Women and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 2:00-3:30, Swift Lecture Hall

Chair: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Mortifying Women: Christian Perfectionism and Female Appetites in Nineteenth-Century America," by R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University

"The Circle of Culture: African American Women and Slave Religion," by Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College

Workshops on Women and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 4:00-5:30

Chair: Cynthia Jurisson, Lutheran School of Theology

"The Path to 'Americanization': Women and the Restructuring of American Judaism," by Karla Goldman, Jewish Women's Archive

Chair: Rosemary D. Gooden, Seabury Western Theological Seminary

"Women's Popular Literature as Theological Narrative: A Mormon Case Study," by Susanna Morrill, University of Chicago

Chair: Rosalind Hinton, DePaul University

"Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ," by Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount

Chair: Kathleen Conzen, The University of Chicago

"'The New Woman at the University': Gender, Americanism, and
the Founding of Trinity College for Catholic Women," by Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame

Chair: Kathryn Long, Wheaton College

"Forbidden or Forgotten Territory? Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century America," by Karin Gedge, West Chester University

Chair: Rowena McClinton, Southern Illinois University

"Reassessing the Role of the 'Native Helper': Christian Indians and the Woman's National Indian Association," by Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Workshops on Women and Religion in the Twentieth Century, 9:00-10:30

Chair: Edith Blumhofer, Wheaton College

"Engendering Dissent: Women and American Judaism," by Pamela S. Nadell, American University

Chair: Suellen Hoy, University of Notre Dame

"'Just People Who Love to Play Basketball': Writing Women's Religious History as if Women Were People," by Julie Byrne, Texas Christian University

Chair: Julia Speller, Chicago Theological Seminary

"Voices from Nepantla: Latinas in U.S. Religious History," by Daisy L. Machado, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

Chair: Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University

"Madres, católicas y evangélicas: The Women of Mary's Ministries and Crafting a New Américan Catholicism," by Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College

Chair: Pamela Jones, The University of Chicago Divinity School

"Varieties of Evangelical Womanhood: The Woman's Missionary Union and Contemporary Southern Baptist Women," by Elizabeth Flowers, Duke University

Plenary Session on Women and Religion in the Twentieth Century, 11:00-12:30, Swift Lecture Hall

Chair: Rosemary Radford Ruether

"Pageant and Performance: African American Women's Religious Drama in the 1920s and 1930s," by Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College

"'Are You the White Nuns or the Black Nuns?': Women Confounding Categories of Race and Gender," by Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University

Lunch, 12:30
Box lunches will be available in the Swift Hall Common Room for those who have registered for them in advance.