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Why Homosexuality?Religion, Globalization, and the Anglican SchismAn interdisciplinary conference organized by LGBT Studies at Yalewith support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund. Saturday, October 17, 20099 AM – 5 PMLinsley-Chittenden Hall, room 10263 High Street, near Chapel Street* * Please pre-register using the form at the bottom of this page. Box lunches and background readings will be provided only to participants who have pre-registered. * * Rather than restaging the arguments for and against the ordination of openly gay clergy, this day-long conference analyzes the threatened schism in the Anglican Communion in order to examine wide-ranging and interrelated issues of religion, secularism, globalization, nationalism, and modernity. How and why, we ask, has homosexuality come to serve as a flash point for so many local and global conflicts? 8:30-9:00. Registration and coffee
9:00-9:15. Welcome and Introduction
9:15-10:30. Panel 1: The Geopolitics of Schism What global and local conditions (e.g., economic, political, theological, postcolonial, mediatic) have fostered the peculiar global realignments pertaining to the schism? To what extent (and why) has sexual liberalism, including both the recognition of homosexuals as distinct subjects and the extension of tolerance toward them, come to serve as a marker of a distinctly Western modernity, to be embraced or resisted?
Neville Hoad, University of Texas, Austin Mary Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University Moderator: Graeme Reid, Yale University
10:45-12:00. Panel 2: Religious Traditions in the Balance
All parties in the struggle seem to agree that beyond the institutional and legal stakes of church property and governance, the unity of a larger body is at issue. How is sex mobilized by different parties in order to define (or purify or regulate) confessional traditions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism? Why do sex and sexuality especially serve as the occasion for such struggles over religious collectivity? How does this wedge issue serve different parties?
Joseph A. Massad, Columbia University Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Yale University Moderator: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
12:00-1:30. LUNCH (Box lunches reserved for speakers and pre-registered participants.)
1:30-3:00. Panel 3: Theologies of Sex and Schism
How do different theological and practical interests motivate conflicts over sexuality? What general concerns--over the body and moral discipline, for example—are at stake, and why does this issue bring them to the fore? And what are the normative frameworks for schism? That is, how do different movements within Christianity produce (or forestall) the practices of schism as an appropriate response?
Mark Jordan, Harvard University Emilie Townes, Yale University Graham Ward, Manchester University Moderator: Siobhan Garrigan, Yale University
3:15-4:45. Panel 4: Concluding Discussion
How is the Anglican debate shaping—as well as reflecting—broader debates over sexuality, morality, and the norms of public and private both within and between North American, British, African, Asian, and Latin America societies? What may be the broader consequences and significance of a schism?
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
Moderator: Michael Warner, Yale University
4:45-5:30. Reception For more information about this conference, contact the LGBT Studies program manager, John-Albert Moseley. PRE-REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONSIMPORTANT: Registration is a two step process; you MUST complete both steps below. After completing step 1, please return to this web page and complete step 2 for payment processing by credit card. The $10.00 registration fee includes a catered box lunch on Saturday. Lunches will only be provided to participants who pre-register. In step 2, please indicate "LGBTS" under Yale Department Name and "Anglican" in the Purpose of Payment field.YALE STUDENTS: You may pay $10 for a box lunch or not pay and eat instead in a nearby college dining hall during the lunch break. Please pre-register in either case, since seats are limited and you must register to access the background readings.
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