The Next Madeleva Lecture
Thursday April 10, 2025
“Holy Women Making History”
Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, PhD
7:00 PM ET, Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall
In Person and Online
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Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, PhD is Rev. John A. O'Brien Collegiate Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame.
About the Madeleva Lecture Series
The Madeleva Lecture is named for Sister Madeleva Wolff, CSC, who served as president of the College from 1934-1961. Her many accomplishments include the establishment in 1943 of the School of Sacred Theology, the first institution in the United States to provide graduate education in theology to women. Although the school closed in 1969, the lecture series named in her honor has for over three decades given voice to women scholars in the discipline of theology. In 2000, the sixteen past Madeleva lecturers created the Madeleva Manifesto, a document of hope and courage to women in the church. The document is just as timely today as when it was originally written.
Past Madeleva Lecturers
Monika K. Hellwig, 1985
Christian Women in a Troubled World
Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM, 1986
Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women
Mary Collins, OSB, 1987
Women at Prayer
Maria Harris, 1988
Women and Teaching: Themes for a Spirituality of Pedagogy
Elizabeth Dreyer, 1989
Passionate Women: Two Medieval Mystics
Joan Chittister, OSB, 1990
Job's Daughters: Women and Power
Dolores Leckey, 1991
Women and Creativity
Lisa Sowle Cahill, 1992
Women and Sexuality
Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, 1993
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit
Gail Porter Mandell, 1994
Madeleva: One Woman's Life
Diana L. Hayes, 1995
Hagar's Daughters: Womanist Ways of Being in the World
Jeanette Rodriguez, 1996
Stores We Live (Cuentos Que Vivimos): Hispanic Women's Spirituality
Mary C. Boys, SNJM, 1997
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman's Experience
Kathleen Norris, 1998
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and 'Women's Work'
Denise Lardner Carmody, 1999
An Ideal Church: A Meditation
Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM, 2000
With Oil in their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, 2001
Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today
Margaret Farley, RSM, 2002
Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and other Questions
Sidney Callahan, 2003
Women Who Hear Voices: The Challenges of Religious Experience
Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM, 2004
Women Shaping Theology
Past Madeleva Lecturers on the 40th Anniversary of Vatican II, 2005
[No Publication]
Susan A. Ross, 2006
For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality, and Justice
M. Shawn Copeland, 2007
The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille
Barbara Fiand, SNDdeN, 2008
Awe-Filled Wonder: The Interface of Science and Spirituality
Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, 2009
Women, Conscience, and the Creative Process
Wendy M. Wright, 2010
Mary and the Catholic Imagination: Le Point Vierge
Kwok Pui-Lan, 2011
Globalization, Gender, and Peacebuilding: The Future of Interfaith Dialogue
Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ, 2012
Becoming the Sign: Sacramental Living in a Post-Conciliar Church
Catherine E. Clifford, 2013
Decoding Vatican II: Interpretation and Ongoing Reception
Christine Firer Hinze, 2014
Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors: Women, Work, and the Global Economy
Voices of Young Catholic Women, A Panel Discussion, 2015
[No Publication]
Marianne Farina, CSC, 2016
Sacred Conversations and the Evolution of Dialogue
Ilia Delio, OSF, 2017
A Hunger for Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence
Mercy Amba Oduyoye, 2018
African Women's Theologies, Spirituality, and Healing: Theological Perspectives from the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
Nancy Pineda-Madrid, 2019
Theologizing in an Insurgent Key: Violence, Women, Salvation
Lecture Canceled due to Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020
Barbara Reid, OP, 2021 (Virtual Event)
At the Table of Holy Wisdom: Global Hungers and Feminist Biblical Interpretation
Lecture Canceled due to health concerns, 2022.
Cristina L. H. Traina, 2023
Feminism, Finitude, and Flourishing: On 'Being Mortal, Like Everyone Else' (Wis 7:1)
Natalia Imperatori-Lee, 2024
Bearers of an 'Idle Tale': Women's Authority in a Credibility Economy