FRIDAY AFTERNOON
First Session (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
Women and Religion: Female Divinity in World Spiritual Traditions: Contemporary Relevance for Women
Presider: Susan G. Carter, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR and California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2:00-2:45 Anne Key, Independent Scholar, Hood River, OR (anne@rabbitmurmurs.org)
From Beloved Sisters to Vampires: Myths and Misinterpretations of the Cihuateteo
2:45-3:30 Susan G. Carter, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR and California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
susangailcarter@yahoo.com or scarter@ciis.edu
Amaterasu-o-mi-kami: The Japanese Sun Goddess and Her Continuing Reign
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-4:45 Chandra Alexandre, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA cmalexandre@earthlink.net
The Tantric Kali: Eastern and Western Approaches to the Divine Mother
4:45-5:30 Louise M. Pare, New College of California, San Francisco, CA lmpare849@aol.com
Like a Serpent in a Rope: Re-imaging Woman’s Moving Body as Site of the Sacred Feminine
FRIDAY EVENING
5:30-7:30 Dinner at area restaurants of your choice!
8:00-9:00 Presidential Address
9:00-10:00 Reception
SATURDAY MORNING
7:00-8:00 Program Unit Chairs and Region Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting
Second Session (8:30-10:30 am)
Women and Religion: Genesis 1-3, Relationships, and Popular Culture
Presider: Amy C. Merrill Willis, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (willis@gonzaga.edu)
8:30-9:10 Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University, Greencastle IN
(vziegler@depauw.edu)
That’s SO Romantic! Adam, Eve, and the Perfect Date
9:10-9:50 Linda S. Schearing, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA
(schearing@gonzaga.edu)
Marketing Sex: Adam, Eve, and Sexploitation
9:50-10:30 Amy C. Merrill Willis, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
(willis@gonzaga.edu)
Desire, Desperation, and Empowerment: The Eves of Desperate Housewives
10:30-11:00 BREAK
PLENARY SESSION(S)
(AAR, SBL, ASOR)
11:00-12:00 p.m. (No title) Name, Affiliation, Email Address, Paper Title
SATURDAY NOON
(Lunch and Region Business Meeting)
12:00 Boxed Lunch
12:30-1:45 Pacific Northwest AAR, SBL and ASOR Business Meeting
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Third Session (2:00-5:30 pm)
Women and Religion
Presider: Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (bassa@gonzaga.edu)
2:00-2:30 Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africaawuahnyamekye@yahoo.com) (
Women's Participation in the Ritual of Worship in African Traditional Religion
2:30-3:00 Wynter Miller, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (wamcq6@mizzou.edu)
An Investigation of the Elite Status of Women in Thai Buddhism
3:00-3:30 Anna-Sophia Zingarelli, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WAazingarelli@gonzaga.edu) (
Lux vivens: Hildegard of Bingen and the Medieval Imaging of God as Light
3:20-3:50 BREAK
3:50-4:30 Kathlyn A. Breazeale, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (breazeka@plu.edu)
There Goes the Bride: Creating and Re-Creating the Ideal Christian Wife in Text, Art and Film
4:30-5:10 Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
smorrill@lclark.edu
Women in the World’s Columbian Exposition: Harbingers of “Progress”
5:10-5:30 Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions
SATURDAY EVENING,
6:30-8:00 Banquet
8:00-9:00 Banquet Address
9:00-10:00 Reception
SUNDAY MORNING
Fourth Session (8:30-12:00 pm)
Women and Religion: "Standard Bearers of Hussein: Women Commemorating Karbala"
Presider: Lesley Hazelton, Independent Scholar, Seattle, WA, lh@marylife.org
8:30-9:15 Film Presentation: "Standard Bearers of Hussein: Women Commemorating Karbala" by Ingvild Flaskerud, Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromso, 2003
9:15-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:30 BREAK
