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Do you want to participate in a live lecture by one of America's foremost feminist theologians? Are you many miles away? The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wyoming can make your participation possible. We are offering a Web Lecture that will allow people around the state of Wyoming, and across the nation and, indeed, anywhere in the world, watch a live video broadcast or to listen to a live audio broadcast of Rosemary Ruether's lecture, and to join in the discussion.
This semester's lecture is:
by
Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Northwestern University
was given at
5:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time
Friday, November 7th, 1997
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Professor Rosemary Ruether will speak on "Women, Religion & Ecology: An International Perspective," at 5:00 pm on Friday, November 7th, in the Senate Chambers of the University of Wyoming Student Union. Ruether—an internationally recognized Catholic feminist theologian—teaches at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois and at Northwestern University on the graduate faculty. She teaches courses on the relation of Christian theology and history to social justice issues, including sexism, racism, poverty, militarism and ecology. Although her views are sometimes controversial, she presents them with kindness, wit, and common sense.
The talk will look at the impact the women’s movement has had on organized religion and on how women’s changing religious roles have affected their activities in agricultural production. Drawing upon her teaching experiences in Southeast Asia, Central America, and South America as well as in Korea and India, Ruether will discuss how the increasing public participation of women in society and religion has influenced views of humanity’s relationship to nature, not only in the US, but around the world.
Dr. Ruether is author or editor of thirty-two books, including her most recent publication, Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Feminism, Religion and Ecology. On the same topic, she wrote Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing in 1992. Perhaps her best known work is Sexism and God-Talk: Towards a Feminist Theology—a now-classic work in the field of feminist theology. Go here for further information and bibliography.
The lecture will be broadcast live on the World Wide Web as the Second Wyoming Web Lecture on Religion. It can be accessed at: http://religion-web.uwyo.edu/rsp/wwlr2.htm. A recorded version will also be available.The Religious Studies Program and the Women’s Studies Program at UW are proud to have an international scholar and activist of Professor Ruether’s stature visit our campus. For further information, contact Dr. Paul Flesher, the Director of the Religious Studies Program at (307) 766-2616 or at PFLESHER@UWYO.edu.
1. Between 4:50 and 5:00 pm Mountain Time (6:50-7:00 pm Eastern Time) on Friday, November 7th, connect to this page.
3. The above link for Professor Ruether's lecture will "go live" between 4:50 and 5:00. Once it is live, click on it, and the sound will begin. (If you load this page before the link goes live, you will need to reload/refresh it before the live activation of the link will take effect. You may need to do this several times.) The link will remain live through the lecture up to the end the question period, which will finish up sometime between 6:00 and 6:30 pm Mountain Time. It may be accessed at anytime during that period.
4. Questions for Professor Ruether, to be answered during the question period following the lecture, may be submitted via e-mail to: PFLESHER@UWYO.edu
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements: A personal computer running a web browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) with a REAL RealPlayer plug-in. PCs must have a sound card installed. For audio, connection to the WWW requires at least a 14.4 modem, for video, a 28.8 modem is the minimum requirements. If your browser lacks the REAL RealPlayer plug-in, or you do not have the necessary browser, they may be downloaded here during the weeks prior to the talk.
If you would like to test your computer's ability to use the REAL RealPlayer plug-in before the lecture, link here to our server page and try out the different modules. (The "live link" will not work.)
The Wyoming Web Lectures on Religion provide an opportunity for the University of Wyoming to share its guest speakers with the people of the state of Wyoming, the United States and the world. Sponsored by UW's Religious Studies Program, with assistance from the Information Technology Division, these talks bring internationally recognized scholars to the campus to discuss topics in the study of world religions. Here they engage an audience from the University, the city of Laramie, and, via the World Wide Web, the state and the world beyond. The audio of each lecture will be broadcast live on the WWW and any interested party may listen in. At any time during the lecture, listeners may e-mail questions to the proceedings and, circumstances permitting, their questions will be asked during the discussion period following the talk. A few days after the lecture, the recorded talk will be available as a downloadable module which can be heard at any time. Further information may be obtained by contacting Professor Paul Flesher, Director of the Religious Studies Program, at (307) 766-2616, or by e-mail at: PFLESHER@UWYO.edu
The Wyoming Web Lectures on Religion are sponsored
by the Religious
Studies Program at the University of Wyoming, with the
assistance of the Information Technology Division. The views of
the speakers are their own, and are not necessarily those of the
Religious Studies Program or of the University of Wyoming.
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