Women and the Recovery of Culture

October 22-24, 2008

Sister Conferences at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota

Hosted by the Siena Symposium for Personalist Feminism: an interdisciplinary group of faculty interested in establishing the new feminism called for by John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae.

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  2008 Oct. 22nd
Oct. 22nd—Conference on The Feminine Genius at Work in the World.

7:30 pm-Keynote by Mary Beth Bonacci, author, speaker and syndicated columnist, "The Feminine Genius at Work in the World" at the O'Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium, St. Paul Campus

Hosted by the Siena Symposium:  an interdisciplinary faculty group interested in developing the new feminism called for by John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae

Registration: Free.

Sponsors: Archdiocesan Office for Marriage, Family and Life. Murphy Institute for Law and Public Policy. Center for Catholic Studies.

 2008 Oct. 23rd
Oct. 23rd—Conference on Mulieris Dignitatem and the Church's Social Vision: The Feminine Genius in the Pursuit of the Common Good

Keynotes in McNeely Great Room:

 "Aquinas and the Feminine Genius,"  Pia Francesca de Solenni (awarded the 2001 Pontifical Prize of the Academies by Pope John Paul II ); 9am         "The Dignity of Mary,"  Rev. Peter Laird, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity; 3:00 pm                                                                                           "John Paul II and the Feminine Genius," Anne Maloney, College of St. Catherine; 4:00 pm

Public Forum: Panel Discussion "Girl Genius: Educating for the Feminine Genius" at the O'Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium, St. Paul Campus; 7:30 pm

              Moderator: Gina Bauer
              Michele Forshaw: "The Essential Feminine Experience"

              Kathleen Nicholas, Louisville, HighSchool: "If You Knew the Gift from God"
              Terry Polakovic: ENDOW, Colorado: "Developmental Stages of the Feminine Genius"                

Hosted by the Siena Symposium.  (CALL FOR PAPERS.)

Registration: Free. 

Sponsors: Murphy Institute for Law and Public Policy, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Center for Catholic Studies, John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, College of Arts and Sciences, Departments of Philosophy and Theology. 

 

 2008 Oct. 24th

Oct. 24th—Conference on Visions of Women's Leadership at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis Campus

8:30 am-Keynote by Mary Pawlenty, First Lady of the State of Minnesota and former Minnesota State Judge at School of Law Schultze Room

10:45 am-Women in Law Panel: Judge Diana Murphy, Mary Cullen Yeager, Sonia Miller-Van Ort, Julie Oseid

12:30 pm-Keynote by Jill Wine-Banks, Chief Officer for Education to Careers in the Chicago Public Schools at School of Law Great Room

 

Registration is free. For more information click here.

Sponsors: Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership, St. Thomas School of Law.

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For questions about any of these events please contact Dr. Deborah Savage at 651-962-5061 or by email at pdsavage@stthomas.edu