Antoinette Brown Lecture

Vanderbilt University Divinity School

announces the 34rd annual

ANTOINETTE BROWN LECTURE

Islam, Gender, and Change

to be delivered by
Amina Wadud, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Starr King School for the Ministry
Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies

Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:00 P.M.
Benton Chapel
Vanderbilt University Divinity School

The Antoinette Brown Lecture began in 1974 with the help of monies made available to the Vanderbilt Divinity School by Ms. Sylvia Sanders Kelly, B.A. '54, of Atlanta, Georgia.The lectureship is intended to bring distinguished women theologians and church leaders to the Divinity School to speak on a variety of concerns for women in ministry. It is named for Antoinette Brown Blackwell, who, in 1853, became the first ordained women in America. Ms. Brown graduated from Oberlin College and carried on a Christian ministry for many years prior to official recognition by ordination. She was active in all aspects of the women's movement throughout her life and shared many public platforms with Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe.

Previous Antoinette Brown Lecturers include Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sallie McFague, Rita Nakashima Brock, Ada Maris Isasi-Diaz, Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenze, Sharon Welch, Katie Cannon, Letty Russell, Diana Eck, Renita Weems, Kwok Pui-lan, Susan Thistlethwaite, Mary C. Churchill, Emilie m. townes, Stephanie Paulsell, Laurel Schneider, and Karen Baker-Fletcher.