Upcoming Murphy Institute Conferences: "Feminism, Law and Religion"

The Murphy Institute is going to be busy this spring semester.  Please join us in March for this one:

 

with keynote address by Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton presiding bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

 

March 20-21, 2014, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, Register here.

 

This two-day conference continues a conversation begun by feminist legal scholars and theologians, marked by the recent publication of Feminism, Law and Religion (Ashgate Press 2013, Failinger, Schiltz, and Stabile, eds), about the role that theology and religious law from diverse religions can play in the construction and critique of just law throughout the world. PANELS AND WORKSHOP TOPICS: Feminist Legal Theory- Religious and Secular Encounters Emily Albrink Hartigan, St. Mary's University School of Law, Texas Cheryl B. Preston, Brigham Young University School of Law, Utah Elizabeth Schiltz, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota Susan Stabile, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota Domestic Violence, Religion and Law Deborah Cantrell, University of Colorado Law School Naomi Graetz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Feminist Readings of Theological Texts on Women's Concerns Hina Azam, University of Texas Marie Failinger, Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota Asifa Quraishi-Landes, University of Wisconsin Law School Frances Raday, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law Reinterpreting Women's Roles and Women's Human Rights Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Cornell University, New York M. Christian Green, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Women's Leadership Within Religious Communities Sr. Sara Butler, University of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois Rebecca Redwood French, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law Mary Szto, Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota Workshops on Emerging Scholarship in Feminism, Law, and Religion These informal sessions provide an opportunity for scholars from varied disciplines to present their works-in-progress and are organized around these topics: Women's Leadership; Women and Human Rights Issues; Women, Religion, and U.S. politics; and Women in the Catholic Church: Emerging Issues. Abigail Bartels, University of Notre Dame Adena Berkowitz, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Naomi Cahn, The George Washington University Law School Shlomo Chaim Pill, Emory University School of Law Julia Ernst, University of North Dakota School of Law Rev. Joseph Hurtuk, S.M., S.T.D., University of St. Thomas Roberta Kwall, DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies Sandra Laguerta, First Things Dana Lloyd, Syracuse University Katie Mollen, Minnesota Catholic Council Charles Reid, University of St. Thomas School of Law Amy Ziettlow, Institute of American Values in New York City

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rev. Elizabeth Eaton Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. Woulfe Auditorium, Anderson Student Center University of St. Thomas, St. Paul campus The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton was elected as the ELCA's fourth presiding bishop at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. She is the denomination's first female presiding bishop. Eaton holds a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. CO-SPONSORED BY:  College of Arts and Sciences Jay Philips Center for Interfaith Learning Luann Dummer Center for Women Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center Siena Symposium for Women, Family, and Culture Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy   Free and open to the public. "Conversations in Feminism, Law, and Religion" has been approved for 9.75 Continuing- Legal- Education credits.