Carpenter Events, 2006-2007

• Religion, Gender, and Sexuality: Magdalene Perspectives
  Wednesday, October 11, 2006
  12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  Tillett Lounge

  Magdalene is a non-profit organization that rehabilitates women with histories of addictions, prison time, and prostitution. Some of these women are coming to the Divinity School to join us for lunch and to share their stories.

  • Ignorance is Not Bliss: Violence Against Women and What Ministers Need to Know

  Friday, February 9, 2006
  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Presentations and Discussion, G-23
  5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception, Tillett Lounge

  An afternoon of exploring such questions as:
  • What sort of world-view deems violence against women acceptable?
  • How does religion contribute to that world-view?
  • How might religion challenge that world-view?
  • How do we care for victims of violence?
  • How do we preach about this issue?

  Speakers:
  Dr. Linda Manning, Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center
  Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament
  Dr. Barbara McClure, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology
  Dr. Brad Braxton, Associate Professor of Homiletics and New Testament
  Dr. John McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Homiletics, Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion, Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture

  • Antoinette Brown Lecture

  Celebrating Holy Boldness
  Women in Ministry, Then and Now

  Karen Baker-Fletcher, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
  Perkins School of Theology of Southern Methodist University

  Thursday, March 15, 2007
  7:00 P.M.
  Benton Chapel
  Vanderbilt University Divinity School

  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/calendar?id=32703

  • "On the Lip(s) of Miriam's Well: Jews|Women|Cultures"
  March 18-20, 2007
  Vanderbilt University

  A international conference that undertakes a global examination of Jewish women's cultural practices: with artists and academics, performances and presentations, from North African, from Sephardic to South Indian, from orthodox to no dox, from the cantorial to the culinary, from photography to publishing, from the margins of the arts to (so-called) marginal arts.

  The conference will begin with a Sunday evening performance of sacred and sephardic music and be followed by two days of presentations, as well as a Monday evening conversation among contemporary Jewish women writers.

  For more information:
  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/calendar?id=32704