1:30 p.m.	Welcome and introduction Barbara J. Grosz, interim dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University Ann D. Braude, director, Women’s Studies in Religion Program; senior lecturer on American religious history, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University
1:45 p.m.	“Gender Defines Religion, Religion Defines Gender” Convener: Shaye Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy; director, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Panelists: Bernadette Brooten, Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies and professor of women’s and gender studies, Brandeis University Madhu Kishwar, professor and senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; founder, editor, Manushi: A Journal About Women and Society; founder, president, Manushi Sangathan: A Forum for Democratic Reforms Afsaneh Najmabadi, professor of history and of the studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Harvard University
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m.	“Religion and the Gendered Body: the Work of Caroline Walker Bynum in Twenty-first-century Perspective” Convener: Drew Faust, Harvard University president and Lincoln Professor of History Panelists: Gannit Ankori, Henya Sharef Professor of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Caroline Walker Bynum, professor of medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; University Professor Emerita, Columbia University Carol B. Duncan, associate professor of religion and culture, Wilfrid Laurier University R. Marie Griffith, professor of religion, director of the program in the study of women and gender, Princeton University
5:30 p.m.	Reception

Friday, April 4, 2008

9 a.m.	Welcome William A. Graham, dean and O’Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School and Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
9:15 a.m.	“Gender and the Structures of Religious Authority” Convener: Lisa McGirr, professor of history, Harvard University Panelists: Catherine Brekus, associate professor of the history of Christianity, the Divinity School, University of Chicago Fiona Griffiths, assistant professor of medieval history, New York University; 2007–2008 Humboldt Fellow, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Eve M. Troutt Powell, professor of Middle Eastern history and Africana studies, University of Pennsylvania Barbara Ruch, Columbia University
10:45 a.m.	Break
11 a.m.	“Gender and Challenges to Religious Authority” Convener: Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Panelists: John Demos, professor of history, Yale University Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School Michelene Pesantubbee, professor of religious studies, University of Iowa Amina Wadud, visiting scholar, Starr King School for the Ministry; professor of Islamic studies, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
12:45 p.m.	Break
2 p.m.	“Gendered Freedom/Religious Freedom” Convener: Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, member of the faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Panelists: Lisa Sowle Cahill, J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College Janice Love, dean, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Ingrid Mattson, Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary Tamar Ross, professor of Jewish philosophy, Bar Ilan University
3:45 p.m.	Concluding remarks