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Spring 2001 Calendar of Events

Thursday, February 8, 2001

Imam Jamil al-Amin & the Muslims of Atlanta
A talk by Professor IHSAN BAGBY

1:00-2:30 p.m., Religion Seminar Room, Callaway S221

Sponsored by the Department of Religion, African-American Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Bagby is Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of International Studies, at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Near Eastern Studies, and is Imam, Religious Leader of Jamaa'ah at-Taqwa (Association for God Consciousness) and member of the Board of Directors of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

 

Monday, February 12, 2001

EMORY UNIVERSITY SPEAKER SERIES - JUDAISM & GENDER

Gentile Genes, Jewish Babies: New Reproductive Technologies and Rabbinic Kinship Cosmology
A talk by SUSAN M. KAHN

7:00 p.m.,White Hall, Room 102

About the speaker
Susan Kahn received her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. She is the Research Director of the Hadassah Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. Her book, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel, won the National Foundation for Jewish Culture's 1998 Musher Prize, awarded biennially for the outstanding dissertation on Jewish life in Israel or America.

 

March 1-2, 2001

Scattering Desires: Same-Sex Love and the Religions
Sponsored by the Department of Religion and the Program in Law and Religion, Emory University; All sessions will be held in Cox Hall, Banquet Room 3. For more information, contact David Mellott at 404-727-7598.

Thursday, March 1
1:00-2:15 p.m.
Mark Jordan (Emory University): "The Sodomite's Long Shadow: Homosexuality as a Theological Invention." Response by Pam Hall (Emory University)

2:30-3:45 p.m.
Jeffrey Kripal (Westminster College): "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, or The Heresy of Heterosexuality in Male Mystical Traditions." Response by Laurie Patton (Emory University)

4:00-5:15 p.m.
Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Temple University): "Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Case of Reconstructionist Judaism." Response by William Gilders (Emory University)

Friday, March 2
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Jose Cabezon (Iliff School of Theology): "On Organs and Orifices: Homosexuality and the Buddhist Rhetoric of Sexual Misconduct." Response by Eric Reinders (Emory University).

10:45-12 noon
Mary McClintock Fulkerson (Duke University): "The Peculiarities of the Protestant Homosexual Subject: A Theological Plea for Intertextuality." Response by Leila Berner (Congregation Bet Mishpachah, Washington, and George Washington University).

1:00-2:15 p.m.
Sahar Amer (UNC/Chapel Hill): "Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures." Response by Kristen Brustad (Emory University).

9:15-10:30 a.m.
Round-table discussion moderated by Miriam Peskowitz (Emory University).

 

Monday, March 26-Saturday, March 31, 2001

HOLY WARS: Conflict and Tolerance in the Religious Imagination

A week-long symposium sponsored by the Department of Religion, the Graduate Division of Religion, and the Office of the Provost, Emory University, and the Wabash Center for Teaching Theology and Religion. (Click on link above for more information, or contact the Religion Dept. at 404-727-7596.)

 

Wednesday, April 4, 2001

EMORY UNIVERSITY SPEAKER SERIES - JUDAISM & GENDER

What Makes Women Sick: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society
A talk by SUSAN STARR SERED

4:00 p.m., White Hall, Room 112

About the speaker
Susan Starr Sered is the author of What Makes Women Sick: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society; Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa; and Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women. She is currently a Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School and is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Sponsored by the Department of Religion, the Institute for Jewish Studies,
and the Anthropology Department