Boston University Seminars: Twentieth-Century American Missions and Gender

Professor Dana Robert will convene a series of four one-day seminars (with two papers each) at Boston University in the fall of 1999 and spring of 2000. The theme will be "Twentieth-Century American Missions and Gender." The goal will be to investigate the variety of ways in which the category of gender affected mission thought and practice across the whole spectrum of the American missionary movement in the twentieth century.

• October 27, 1999. Seminar with Dr. Angelyn Dries of Cardinal Stritch College, author of The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (Orbis, 1998); and Dr. Margaret Guider of Weston Seminary, author of Daughters of Rahab: Prostitution and the Church of Liberation in Brazil (Fortress, 1995). Both women will be addressing the issue of American women and Catholic missions in the 20th century. Respondent will be Dr. Ann Braude, Director of Program on Women and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, and author of Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in 19th Century America.
• December 1, 1999. Dr. Juanita Leonard and Dr. Christina Accordero, both faculty members from the Church of God School of Theology, Anderson, Indiana. Dr. Leonard speaking on Church of God women and the Abuliya of Kenya; Dr. Accordero speaking on the Latin American Mission.