Conference program

Thursday, July 4, 2024

16:00 Arrival and coffee

 

16:45 Welcome and project presentation

Nicole Bauer (University of Graz) & Andrew Doole (University of Innsbruck)

 

17:00-17:45 [online]

Michele Dillon (University of New Hampshire)

Deconstructing Catholic Discourse on Sex and Gender

 

17:45-18:30 [online]

Beth Allison Barr (Baylor University)

The Cost of Patriarchy for Evangelical Women

 

19:00 Evening Reception

 

Friday, July 5, 2024

Section: Religious Studies and Biblical Studies Approaches

 

09:00-09:45

Gunda Werner (Bochum University)

Gender, Queer, and Radical Diversity

 

09:45-10:30

Irmtraud Fischer (University of Graz)

Only Two Sexes With Equal "Dignity", Heterosexual and Lifelong Monogamous? Challenging Conventional Concepts in Biblical Exegesis and Tradition.

 

10:30 Coffee break

 

Section: Gender & Religion

 

11:00-11:45

Benedikt Bauer (Bochum University)

"I am my Beloved's, and his Desire is for Me": Intersections between Religion and Gender

 

11:45-12:30

Deborah Sawyer (John Felice Rome Center, Loyola University Chicago)

"To posit a gender, a God is necessary": Locating Gender Politics within Christian Contexts

 

12:30 Lunch

 

Section: Case Studies I

 

14:30-15:00

Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University)

"When There is No Book": Social Construction of Gender Roles and Sexuality among Pagan Women in Contemporary Lithuania

 

15:00-15:30

Eglė Aleknaitė (Vytautas Magnus University)

The Stronghold safeguarding the Nation or persecuted True Believers? Lithuanian Catholic Leadership Embracing the Christian Persecution Discourse as an Anti-Genderist Strategy

 

15:30 Panel discussion

 

16:00 Coffee break

 

Section: Case Studies II

 

16:30-17:00

Christian Feichtinger (University of Graz)

The Sanctified Life: Seventh-day Adventists' Perspectives on Sexuality

 

17:00-17:30

Frank Hinkelmann (Martin Bucer Seminar)

The Role of Women in Austrian Free Churches through the Course of Time: Some Case Studies

 

17:30-18:00

Ulrike Bechmann (University of Graz)

Different Hermeneutics Between Bible and Contexts: The example of the Women’s World Day of Prayer

 

18:00 Panel discussion

 

18:00 Break

 

18:45-19:30 [online]

Benjamin Zeller (Lake Forest College)

The Dis/embodied Female Body in Post-Christian American Spirituality

 

19:30 Closing remarks

Nicole Bauer (University of Graz) & Andrew Doole (University of Innsbruck)