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| Date | Speaker | Lecture Title | Availability | |
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| November 14, 1974 | Beverly W. Harrison | The Sound of Silence Breaking: Women Speak to Church and Society | CD | |
| November 11, 1975 | Phyllis Trible | Two Women in a Man’s World: A Reading of the Book of Ruth | Journal article Soundings 59.3 (Fall 1976):251-279 |
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| October 19, 1976 | Eleanor McLaughlin | God’s Body and Ours: Problems and Possibilities in Medieval Spirituality | ||
| November 9, 1977 | Rosemary Radford Ruether | Nature and Eschatology: St. Paul and Sarah Grimke; Two Paradigms of Women’s Equality in Christ | CD | |
| October 5, 1978 | Claire Randall | Power in the Church | ||
| October 31, 1979 | Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza | Discipleship and Patriarchy: Women in Early Christianity – a Feminist Perspective | ||
| March 23, 1980 | Carter Heyward | Feminism: Reexamining the Vision | CD | |
| March 29, 1981 | Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz | Sisterhood: Core of a Liberating Struggle | CD | |
| March 28, 1982 | Yvonne Delk | Theological Education: Encountering the Social Issues of the Eighties | CD | |
| November 8, 1983 | Sallie McFague | Feminist Theology: A New Way of Seeing; A New Way of Being | Audiocassette, CD | |
| 1984 | THERE WAS NO LECTURE IN 1984 | |||
| March 25, 1985 | Carol P. Christ | Finitude, Death and Reverence for Life | Journal article Semeia 40 (1987):93-108 |
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| September 29, 1986 | Joan Chittister | The Role of Women in Church and Ministry | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 25, 1987 | Toinette M. Eugene | Ain’t I a Woman? Feminist Truth and Moral Values | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 21, 1988 | Bernice Johnson Reagon | [Untitled] | ||
| April 10, 1989 | Eleanor Scott Meyers | The Power of Women and the Power of God | CD | |
| March 19, 1990 | Sheila Briggs | What Should Feminist Theology Be Saying About Social Class? | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 14, 1991 | Katie G. Cannon | A Womanist Interpretation of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil: Sacred Rhetoric in African-American Texts | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 26, 1992 | Rita Nakashima Brock | Religious Reflections on Sex Industries: Who Plays? Who Pays? Who Prays? | CD | |
| March 24, 1993 | Sharon D. Welch | Dancing with Chaos: Reconfigurations of Order, Truth and Goodness in the Quest for Social Justice | CD | |
| March 24, 1994 | Mary Ann Tolbert | Reconstituting the World: Feminism, Power, and the Bible | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 23, 1995 | Elizabeth A. Johnson | Women, Earth, and the Glory of God [manuscript] | Manuscript | |
| March 21, 1996 | Elizabeth A. Clark | The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of Feminist Historians in the Age of “Theory” | CD | |
| February 20, 1997 | Jacquelyn Grant | Servanthood: Womanist Inquiry | Audiocassette, CD | |
| March 19, 1998 | Letty M. Russell | Practicing Hospitality in a Time of Backlash | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 18, 1999 | Diana L. Eck | Feminism and Pluralism: Time for a Reformation | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 16, 2000 | Renita J. Weems | Huldah the “Lady Prophet” in 2 Kings 22.14: Writing a Woman’s Life | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 15, 2001 | Kwok Pui-lan | Engendering Christ | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 14, 2002 | Susan B Thistlethwaite | Adam, Eve, and the Genome: Feminist Theology Looks at the Human Genome Project | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 13, 2003 | Mary C. Churchill | Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Native American Women and the Question of a Non-Christian Theology | Audiocassette, CD, Videocassette | |
| March 24, 2004 | Emilie M Townes | Mounting the High Side of Misery | CD | |
| March 17, 2005 | Stephanie A. Paulsell | Scriptio Divina: Women, Writing and God | ||
| March 16, 2006 | Laurel Schneider | When Hell Freezes Over: Feminism, Ontology and Multiplicity | ||
| March 15, 2007 | Karen Baker-Fletcher | Celebrating Holy Boldness: Women in Ministry, Then and Now | ||
| March 27, 2008 | Amina Wadud | Islam, Gender and Change | DVD | |
| March 26, 2009 | Traci C. West | Lying On Women: Religion, Race and Intimate Violence in the African Diaspora | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 25, 2010 | Judith Plaskow | Texts We Love to Hate: Dealing with the Hard Places in Tradition | DVD | |
| March 24, 2011 | Catherine Keller | And Truth – so Manifold!: Transfeminist Entanglements | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 22, 2012 | Amy Hollywood | Love Abyss: Preaching Desire in the Thirteenth and Twenty-First Centuries | DVD | |
| March 21, 2013 | Monica Coleman | Iyanla Vanzant, Black Women’s Spirituality and the Oprah Effect: Straddling and Merging Religious Difference | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 20, 2014 | Ellen T. Armour | Crisis in the Anglican Communion: Christian Biodiscipline (and Beyond?) | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 26, 2015 | Bonnie Miller-McLemore | Mothers, Children and Theological Knowledge | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 31, 2016 | Amy-Jill Levine | The Carpenter, Gender, and Sexuality: The Use and Abuse of the Gospels in Politics and Piety | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 23, 2017 | Eboni Marshall Turman | Facing Pecola: Toward a Womanist Soteriologic of Black Girl Disrespectability | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 22, 2018 | Thelathia “Nikki” Young | LECTURE CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER | ||
| 2019 | THERE WAS NO LECTURE IN 2019 | |||
| September 10, 2020 | Kelly Brown Douglas | White Supremacy and the Legacy of Faith (The lecture was originally scheduled for March 12, 2020, and was postponed due to COVID-19.) |
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| April 11, 2022 | Loida I. Martell | The God Who Is | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 20, 2023 | Traci C. West | Misogynist Stench in Christian White Supremacy | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| March 4, 2024 | Grace Y. Kao | Can Surrogacy Be Feminist? How About Christian? | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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| April 14, 2025 | Nichole M. Flores | Natal Christology and the Practice of Democracy | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
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