December 12 Teleconference with Katie G. Cannon

“Translating Womanism into Pedagogical Praxis”

Join us on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 1 PM for a conversation with Katie G. Cannon as she discusses the subject of “Translating Womanism into Pedagogical Praxis.”

Katie G. Cannon is a womanist theologian and was the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She received an M.Div. from Johnson C. Smith Seminary in Atlanta, GA, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

She is currently the Annie Scales Rogers Professor for Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Previously Katie served on the faculties of Temple University, Episcopal Divinity School, and Harvard Divinity School. In 2011, the American Academy of Religion honored Dr. Cannon with its Teaching Award.

Dr. Cannon’s work focuses in the areas of Christian ethics, Womanist theology, and women in religion and society. She has lectured nationally on theological and ethical topics. She is the author of numerous articles and books including: Black Womanist Ethics (Oxford 1988), Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community (Continuum 1995), and Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric (Continuum 2007). She is the co-editor with Emilie M. Townes and Angela D. Sims of Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Westminster John Knox 2011).

Email “Register Me Teleconference” to waterstaff@waterwomensalliance.org by Dec. 11th in order to receive dial-in information.