Tentative Schedule for Regional Meeting (subject to change without notice)

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