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2006 Conference Schedule

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This is the rough schedule, check back soon for the actual schedule with sessions listed.

Saturday, April 8th

LGBT Religious Archives Annual Dinner - cosponsored by The Riverside Church Archives

Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York City

Presentation: LGBT Congregations: Past, Present, Future
Dr. Rebecca Alpert, associate professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York City

Presentation of first LGBT Religious History Award to: Dr. Michelle Sauer, Minot State University
for her paper "Representing the Negative: Positing the Lesbian Void in Medieval English Anchoritism"

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Sunday, April 9th
Time Session
9:00am Registration & Breakfast
9:30am - 11:00am Welcome, Introductory Comments
First Panel: Sexuality, Sexual Expression and Gender Identity in 21st Century African American Religious / Spiritual Practice. Moderated by Cedric Harmon
11:10am - 12:00pm Sexual Ethics from a Pagan and a Pagan-Christian Seminarian. Michelle Mueller Reconstructionist Judaism and Marriage Equality. Rebecca Alpert The Spiritual Salad Bar: Religious Organizations as Resources for Queer Women. Melissa Wilcox
12:10pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:10pm - 2:00pm Liberation, Body and Spirit: Connecting Sensuality, Sexuality and Tradition in the Liberation in Truth Movement. Gayle Baldwin May Love and Justice Increase: Rituals for Same-Sex Ceremonies. Diann Neu Scholars Roundtable: Queer Other Subaltern Studies in the Academy
2:10pm - 3:30pm Ritual As Container for States of Non-Ordinary Consciousness. Stephen McDonnell, President of Dignity Washington
3:30pm - 3:40pm Coffee Break
3:40pm - 4:30pm The Return to Greenwood: Identifying the "Gay Canaan". Perry Brass The Other-ing Discourse of
the Jewish Menstrual Laws. Tamar Benzikry 		LGBT Liturgies Part One. Siobhan Garrigan and Patrick Evans
4:40pm - 6:10pm Panel: Erotic Ritual in Literature and Film / Literature and Film as Erotic Ritual. Moderated by Christine Hoff Kraemer
6:15pm - 7:15pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm Screening & Discussion: Same Sex Marriage -An Adventure in Faith & Love. Brendan Fay

Monday, April 10th
Time Session
9:00am Registration & Breakfast
9:30am - 11:00am Same Sex Marriage and the Law. Craig Cepler and Chris Cormier The Allure of Sacred Prostitution. Stephanie Budin
11:10am - 12:00pm It will Make a Man of You! Ron Long Blessing Sexuality in Judaism. Renee Bauer LGBT Liturgies Part Two. Siobhan Garrigan and Patrick Evans
12:10pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:10pm - 2:00pm Toward an Open Christianity: A Heretic's Reflections on the Future. Paul Murray Seducation of Ritual: How Blind Acceptance of Same-Sex Marriage will Ritualize Control, Not Love. Bob Langjahr Divorce in Judaism and it's Legal Significance for Women. Rachel Rosenthal
2:10pm - 3:00pm Celebrating the Body Judaic: Dancing with the "Evil Impulse." David Bauer and Michael Cohen
3:10pm - 4:00pm A Union of Fire and Water: Embodying the Cosmos in Hindu
Sexual Practice. Jeffrey Lidke 		Marriage Works in the Book of Margery Kempe. William E. Smith III
4:00pm - 4:20pm Conference Closing Remarks