2020 Consultation
Save the Date! 14th – 15th May 2020
Details TBC.
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Previous Consultations…
The 2nd Annual Women in Missiology Network Consultation took place 31st May – 1st June 2019, at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham.
The theme this year was “Suffering and Hope in Mission.”
This 24-hour women-only event aimed to:
- connect women engaged in missiology
- engage with papers on the consultation theme.
- give a space to share experiences and raise issues involved in being a woman working in the field of missiology
- encourage the next generation of women scholars
Keynote speakers
Dr Anna Hampton – “Facing Danger: Suffering and Risk in Mission”
Evie Vernon – the dilemma of the Mary and Martha paradigms for Christian women.
Call for papers
We invited papers on the theme of ‘Suffering and Hope in Mission’ and welcomed submissions from students as well as academics. The theme was intentionally broad to attract a variety of proposals but examples of submission included:
- Sue Barclay – “Naming, (Un)shaming, and the Voice of the Voiceless: The pastoral use of the Old Testament “Texts of Terror” in a violent world”
- Jennifer Holloran – “The Problem of Pain: Servant Leadership and John 11:1-44”
- Heather Payne – “Putting the last first: an acceptable theory of justice for people with disabilities”
- Georgina Jardim – “The Psalm of Hagar: an intertextual reading of suffering and hope.”
On 6-7 June 2018 we hosted the first Women in Missiology Network Consultation at the International Mission Centre in Birmingham, UK.
This 24-hour women-only event aimed to:
- connect women engaged in missiology
- engage with papers on the consultation theme of, ‘The Bible and Mission’
- give a space to share experiences and raise issues involved in being a woman working in the field of missiology
- encourage the next generation of women scholars
- help shape the network’s future
Keynote speakers
Dr Cathy Ross – “Lament and Hope: “There are things that can be seen only with eyes that have cried.”’
Dr Mary Evans – “Old Testament Narrative and its Missional Significance.”
Call for papers
We invited papers on the theme of ‘The Bible and Mission’ and welcomed submissions from students as well as academics. The theme was intentionally broad to attract a variety of proposals but examples of submission included:
- Claire Ord – “Reading Mary’s song with a migrant women’s church: an experience of humiliation.”
- Bek’e Burgess – “A Missional reading of Jesus’ interaction with women found in the Book of Luke.”
- Svetlana Khobnya – “They may be won over without a word: How does 1 Peter’s missional strategy work?”
- Loun Ling – “Asian Women on the Cutting Edge of Mission: Past and Present”
- Hae Won Kim – “Women in Missiological Research (or Lack Thereof)”
- Evie Vernon – “Hagar’s Lament”
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