Thursday, March 6, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm\u00a0 Opening Plenary Session: <\/span><\/p>\n Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary), “Partner, Pioneer, Principal: Female Jewish Religious Leadership in North America”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm Opening reception (dessert)<\/span><\/p>\n Friday, March 7<\/b><\/p>\n 9:00 am to 11:00 am Paper Session One: “Innovating Conservative Traditions”<\/p>\n Prof. Jill Peterfeso (Guilford College), “Evolving RCWP: Ministerial Modeling and Practicing New Priesthoods”;<\/em><\/a> Prof. Michal Raucher (Rutgers University) “Pastoral-Rabbi: How Orthodox Women Rabbis are Feminizing the Orthodox Rabbinate”;<\/em><\/a> Prof. Nancy Ross (Utah Tech University) and Prof. David Howlett (Smith College), \u201c ‘<\/em>You might change your mind!’: Early Responses to Women\u2019s Ordination in the 1980s RLDS Church”<\/a><\/p>\n 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Lunch and Break (catered for speakers; pizza lunch for others)<\/span><\/p>\n 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Plenary Session: <\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Donyelle McCray (Yale Divinity School), “The Apostle Pauli and the Spirituality of Risk-taking”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Voices of Women Religious Leaders in the Valley<\/span><\/p>\n Panelists: Rev. Sarah Buteux, First Churches of Northampton;<\/a> Sis Clare Carter, the New England Peace Pagoda<\/a>; Rabbi Ariella Rosen, Congregation B’nai Israel, Northampton<\/a>; Kim Alston, Muslim Student Adviser, Smith College<\/a><\/p>\n 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Paper Session Two: “Work, Authority, and Policy” <\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Mae Speight (independent scholar), “<\/em>Mainline Women in Campus Ministry, 1950-1975″;<\/a> Prof. Eileen Campbell-Reed (Union Theological Seminary), “<\/em>Where Did Women Go? And Are They Coming Back? Post-Pandemic Exploration of Ministry Jobs<\/a>“;<\/em> Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort (Indiana University), “<\/em>The Other Pastors: Towards Legitimacy and Authority”;<\/a> Prof. Cammie Jo Bolin (University of Albany — SUNY), “Clergywomen, Women\u2019s Ordination, and \u201cWomen\u2019s Issues\u201d: Women\u2019s Representation in American Religious Congregations”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm\u00a0 Dinner (catered for speakers; more substantial snacks\/light dinner for others)<\/span><\/p>\n 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Film Screening, “The Philadelphia Eleven” (2024)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Q&A following with director Margo Guernsey (Emerson College)<\/a>\u00a0 and introduced by President Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Smith College). <\/span><\/p>\n Saturday, March 8<\/b><\/p>\n 9:00 am to 11:00 am Paper Session Three: “Feminist Storytelling” <\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Kate Common (Methodist Theological School of Ohio), “Forging Voice: Pioneering Scholars in Religion”;<\/a> Dr. Tham Tran (University of Massachusetts – Lowell), “Reflections of a Vietnamese Buddhist Leader on Leadership Through the Four Positive States of Mind: An Autoethnographic Study”;<\/a> Prof. Kate Dugan (Springfield College)<\/a>, ” ‘NFP is Pro-Women’: Catholic Women and 21st-century Reproductive Health”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Lunch and Break<\/span><\/p>\n