Call for Papers
Seattle University, June 27-28, 2013
The National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) will hold its biennial Making Connections conference at Seattle University this coming June.
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, PhD, founded NAWCHE in 1992 at Boston College, where she is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Women’s Studies & Gender Studies Program. Sr. Cathy Beckley, SNJM, MA, is a Catholic Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in Seattle. With degrees in divinity and social work, she currently works as a spiritual director and retreat director.
Conference Themes: All are invited to our “Welcome Table” in June to renew, revitalize, envision, and engage in interfaith and collaborative dialogues. Papers and presentations might address, but are not limited to:
The past and future of interfaith dialogues in our offices, our classrooms, and on our campuses;
NAWCHE as an incubator of campus interfaith mission: for faculty, staff, administrators, and students in Catholic higher education and our off-campus allies;
Tracking faith in our classrooms: dialogues, readings, linked courses, pedagogy;
Service-Learning and faith connections;
Interdisciplinary approaches to interfaith education;
Secular humanism in relation to faith traditions, or not;
Promoting mission: what does faith have to do with it?;
Fundraising for Catholic schools: defining community, honoring mission;
Building library and resource collections in the “small c” catholic tradition;
Global perceptions of women educating at Catholic schools and universities;
Women in dialogue across disciplines and job classifications;
Women religious as social justice community partners educating us and our students;
Passing as faithful while working it out: when the table doesn’t feel welcome.
Please send paper and panel proposals by March 31, 2013 to nawche@seattleu.edu
Also, please check our NAWCHE website for periodic updates and additional information about the conference: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/nawche.
NAWCHE Conference Organizers: Mary-Antoinette Smith, Ph.D., Executive Director, NAWCHE, Conference Chair, Director, Women and Gender Studies, Seattle University; Gabriella Guti�rrez y Muhs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies and Modern Languages, Seattle University; Victoria Kill, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, English, Seattle University; Kristen Morgan, Marketing & Communications Assistant, College of Arts & Sciences, Seattle University; Elena Arntz, Women and Gender Studies Program Assistant, Seattle University; Alexandra Peck, Women and Gender Studies Work Study Apprentice, Seattle Universit