2026 Women and Gender Conference

1:00 -1:15                                 Introduction & Welcome (Zoom Rm 1)

Gendered Power (Zoom Rm 1)

Women’s Rituals (Zoom Rm 2)

1:15-1:40

Daesun Jang

Claiming Space in Samuel: Rizpah, Abigail, Michal, and the Politics of Gendered Resistance

Liat Mandelbaum

“One Who Keeps a Day against a Day”: Contesting Authority over the Female Body in Rabbinic Literature

1:40-2:05

Shayna Sheinfeld

Queering Resistance at Masada

Samantha J. Scott

Curbing Violence: Sarai and Eve as Intercessors in Apocalyptic Imagination

2:05-2:30

Michael Blythe

Does Luke Know What to Do with Wives? Gendered Domestication and Female Agency in Luke-Acts

Makayla Bezzant

The Woman at Bethany as Matthew's Second Initiator: Gender, Ritual, and Memory in the Anointing at Bethany

2:30-2:45                                                         Break

Gendered Agency, Marginality, and Authority in Texts
and Reception (Zoom Rm 1)

LEAF Session: Gender and the More-Than-Human (Zoom Rm 2)

2:45-3:10

Gill Le Fevre

“O Blessed Women”: Female Voice, Narrative Authority, and Salvation in Hippolytus’ Rewriting of Biblical Texts

Rosemary Boissonneau (WITHDRAWN)

Eve and the Denial of the ʾădāmâ: An Eco-Feminist Interpretation of Genesis 3:20 and 4:1

3:10-3:35

John Baptist Antony

“Come, lift up the boy”: A Dalit Feminist Reading of Hagar Narratives

Adriana Tunliu-Dukabain and Marshall Johns

Trans-Corporeality from “the Sea and the Dry Land”: A Feminist New Materialist Approach to Nonhuman Agents in the Book of Jonah

3:35-4:15

Cornelia Wunsch and Klaus P. Adam

Adoptees Turned Servant Wives in Ezekiel 16: Economic Perspectives on the Sale of Women

Carine Tarla Mukep

From Ewe to Lamb: An African Postcolonial-Feminist Reading of Gender and Reception in Isaiah 53:7

4:00-4:15                                                         Break

Maternal Bodies (Zoom Rm 1)

Women Characters in Transmission (Zoom Rm 2)

4:15-4:40

Amanda Brobst-Renaud

The Politics of Birth: Mary and the Infancy Narratives

B. E. Bruning

Women Serving at the Entrance of the Tent: What Does Their Addition to the Texts of Exodus and Samuel Actually Add?

4:40-5:05

Rose Miller

From Offspring to Ekklesia: The Generative Body in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas

Nataly Romero

The Reina Valera 1960 Version (Spanish) and the Virtuous Woman, Proverbs 31:10–31

5:05-5:15                                                         Break

5:15-6:00                                          Closing Remarks (Zoom Rm 1)