The Shannon Lecture Series

The William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies at Nazareth College presents ...

Women of Wisdom and Witness

For 2008-2009, our Shannon Chair podium will host four extraordinary women whose lives and writings express and explore the wisdom and witness of women in church and society.

Our speakers come to us with insights gleaned from diverse life experiences and academic expertise. Each has made significant contributions to her field of work and study: in medicine and health care, in spirituality and theology, in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, in Holocaust and genocide studies.

Each of our lecturers will address topics of global and personal concern — the realities of a troubled world; the violence of torture, war and rape; the human cost of poverty and inadequate health care; the injustice of sexism, racism, and classism. All these realities impede the full flowering of human potential and diminish our dignity as a human community. Grounding their perspectives in research and contemporary reality, our speakers offer us resources for spiritual wholeness and a vision for how we can contribute to building a future of hope and justice in society and in the church.

Please join us in welcoming to Nazareth College our distinguished speakers:

Sheila Cassidy

• Audacity to Believe: The Witness of a Political Prisoner
  Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
  Forum, Otto A. Shults Community Center

• Colloquium: The Key is Empathy: A Spirituality of Life and Work
  Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
  Golisano Academic Center, Room 38

Elizabeth A. Dreyer

• Women Alive in the Spirit: Wisdom of Medieval Mystics
  Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
  Forum, Otto A. Shults Community Center

• Colloquium: The Holy Spirit According to Women
  Friday, October 24, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
  Linehan Chapel, Golisano Academic Center

Jamie T. Phelps, O.P.

• Women Transforming the Church: Moving Toward Communion
  Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Forum, Otto A. Shults Community Center

• Colloquium: Topic TBA
  Friday, March 6, 2009, 1:30 p.m.
  Location: TBA

Carol Rittner, R.S.M.

• Rape, Religion and Genocide: Breaking the Silence
  Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Forum, Otto A. Shults Community Center

• Colloquium: Topic TBA
  Friday, April 3, 2009, 1:30 p.m.
  Location: TBA

These lectures are free and open to the public.
There will be a colloquium at 1:30 p.m. on each Friday afternoon after the evening lectures.