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2/18/02

SLU MACKAY LECTURES EXPLORE VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

CANTON - The 2002 Kathryn Fraser Mackay Lecture at St. Lawrence 
University will be presented by a panel of four women representing 
scholarship on Judaism, Islam, Catholicism and Salim. The presentation 
is also part of the St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts, 
"Remapping the Goddess: Global Visions."
	The Mackay Lecture, "Women, God, Power: Crossing Boundaries,"
 will be on Thursday, February 28, at 8 p.m. in Gulick Theatre, with 
Hyun Kyung Chung, Charlotte Fonrobert, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein and 
Mary Hunt.
	Each of the panelists will also give individual presentations 
during the festival; all of the events are open to the public, free 
of charge. The schedule follows:
	- "When Women (do not) Walk in the Ways of their Fathers: 
Jewish Tradition and Feminist Innovation," by Fonrobert, Thursday, 
February 28, at 12:40 p.m. in the Formal Lounge of the E.J. Noble 
University Center.
	- "Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation," by Armijo-Hussein, 
Thursday, February 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Formal Lounge of the E.J. 
Noble University Center.
	- "Catholic Feminism: Hybridity or Contradiction?," by Hunt, 
on Friday, March 1, at 4 p.m. in Herring-Cole. The presentation will 
be followed by a reception for Catholic women in the North Country.
	- "Salimist Manifesto: A Korean Ecofeminist Spirituality," 
by Chung, on Friday, March 1, at 6 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel.
	A closing ritual/blessing will be led by Chung on Friday, 
March 1, at 7 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel.
	Chung is associate professor of ecumenical theology at the 
Union Theological Seminary and the author of Struggle to be the Sun 
Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology. Fonrobert is assistant 
professor of religious studies at Stanford University and the author 
of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of 
Biblical Gender. Armijo-Hussein is a Mellon Fellow in the religious 
studies department at Stanford University and is working on a project 
on the role of gender in minority communities' survival during 
periods of mass violence. Hunt is a research fellow at the Center 
for the Study of Values in Public Life at the Harvard Divinity 
School and the author of Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of 
Friendship.
	The Mackay Lectures were established in memory of Kathryn 
Fraser Mackay '77 by her family, to honor her interests and spirit. 
Traditionally, coordination of the lectures alternates between the 
departments of philosophy and religious studies.
	The St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts is February 
16 through March 7 and includes a variety of performances, exhibitions, 
lectures, discussions and other events, all exploring "the shifting 
representations and cultic practices of female deities 
in their own locale and in translation to other contexts."

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