The Annual Anne Drummey O'Callaghan Lecture on Women in the Church
Dr. Margaret A. Farley
Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School
Author of Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, winner of the
2008 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Wednesday, October 7, 7:30 p.m.
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts
Kelley Theatre
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Sister Margaret Farley, Ph.D., an ethicist and professor at Yale Divinity School, will deliver the 9th Annual Anne Drummey O'Callaghan Lecture on Women in the Church on Wednesday, October 7 in the Quick Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Farley's talk, "Agenda for Women in the 21st Century Church," will be informed by her eighty articles and book chapters on medical, feminist and sexual ethics, and by her work directing projects relating to women and the response to HIV/AIDS in Africa. She is co-founder of the All-Africa Conference, a project intended to bring together African women religious to develop strategies for responding to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa. View the press release for more information. |
The Anne Drummey O'Callaghan Lecture On Women in the Church began in October of 2001 with speaker Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., Ph.D. This lecture honors the memory of O'Callaghan, formerly of Norwalk, who dedicated herself to religious education, especially as it relates to liturgy. She served as youth minister and director of religious education at both St. Jerome and St. Joseph parishes in Norwalk. Active on numerous catechetical boards and committees of the Diocese of Bridgeport, she was chair of BRED, the professional association of Bridgeport Religious Educators. She was particularly interested in church history and was passionate about the role of women in the church. This lecture series is designed to acknowledge the advanced role of women in the church and provide a forum to converse on other important religious issues.
History of the lecture series:
2008: Dr. Nancy Dallavalle, Associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Fairfield University
"Icons and Integrity: Catholic Women in the Church and in the Public Square"2007: Sr./Dr. Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and professor of systematic theology at Xavier University in Louisiana
"Towards Full Communion: Black Catholics in the Roman Catholic Church of the United States"2006: Dr. María Pilar Aquino, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism at the University of San Diego
"Option for Women Today: Feminist Theological Perspectives"2005: Dr. Elizabeth Dreyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Fairfield University
"Medieval Women Mystics: Weird or Wonderful?"2004: Joan Chittister, OSB, a leading voice in contemporary spirituality and church and world issues,
"God, Women and the World: Telling the Story Another Way"2003: Dr. Dolores Leckey, senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center
"Catholic Women at the Threshold: New Ministers, New Leaders"2002: Dr. Susan A. Ross, professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago
"Be Thou My Vision: Women and the Sacramental Life of the Church"2001: Dr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.,
"Women Imaging God"