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Jesuit and Feminist Education: Transformative
Discourses for Teaching & Learning Conference
Oct. 27 - 29, 2006
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"Knowing Our Lives, Living With
Our Knowledge"
Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, associate professor
of systematic theology, Boston College
Friday, October 27, 2006, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Dining Room
OPEN FORUM:
"Voicing Feminist Issues on Jesuit Campuses:
When Academic Freedom and Jesuit Culture Collide"
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Heather Hathaway, Marquette University
Drs. Susan Ross and Bren Murphy, Loyola University of Chicago
Dr. Joy Gordon, Fairfield University
Dr. Lucy Katz, Fairfield University
Saturday, October 28, 2006
5:15 - 6:30 p.m., Dolan School of Business Dining Room
This event is free and open to the Fairfield University community.
The open forum is co-sponsored by the Faculty Welfare Committee, Fairfield
University, a chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Conference Panel and Roundtable topics include:
• The uHer-story" of Jesuit Education
• Campus Ministry and Women's Studies programs
• The Vagina Monologues
• Sexual Orientation, lgnatian Pedagogy, and Feminism
• Foreign-Educated Women Faculty
These conference events will take place in the Dolan School of Business.
Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Academic VicePresident,
the Program in Catholic Studies, the Program in Women's Studies,
and the Center for Academic Excellence, and made possible through a generous
grant from the Humanities Institute of Fairfield University, the College of
Arts and Sciences.
CONFERENCE EVENTS
FOR SATURDAY,
OCT. 28, 2006
8 a.m. - 9 a.m ................. Continental Breakfast,
Dining Room
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m ........... Concurrent Discussion 1:
• The "Her-story" of
Jesuit Education
• Jesuit and Feminist
Approaches to
Service Learning
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m ....... Concurrent Discussion II:
• At the Crossroads of Jesuit
and Feminist Pedagogy
• Where Campus Ministry
and Women's Studies
Programs Meet
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m ....... Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m ......... Concurrent Discussion Ill:
• Sexual Orientation,
lgnatian Pedagogy,
and Feminism
• Synthesizing Care & Justice
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m ............. Concurrent Discussion IV:
• Foreign-Educated
Women Faculty
• Reflecting on the Jesuit
Goal of Justice and
Feminist Liberation
• The Vagina Monologues
5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m ......... Open Forum
7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m ............. Concert, Orin Grossman,
academic vice president and
international concert pianist,
Bellarmine Great Hall
7:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m ......... Reception, Bellarmine Hall
For more information on the conference and how to register,
see our website at : http://www.fairfield.edu/jfemconf
Or, contact the conference co-organizers:
• Dr. Jocelyn Boryczka, Department of Politics, ext. 2858
• Dr. Elizabeth Petrino, Department of English, ext. 3014
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