For Further Information and a Registration Form Contact Fiona Reid ( ) Or Ursula Mason

West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network Regional Conference

‘Women, Faith and Spirituality’ Sat 25 June 2005 J Block, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, South Wales

Plenary Speaker Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London): 'Women and religion in an age of Western domination'

Other Speakers Ronald Morgan, Female spirituality and Jesuit self-concept: The life of Mariano de Jesús of Quito Linda Wilson, Women and their Saviour: Marianne Farningham and C19 evangelical spirituality Sarah Glover, ‘Picturing penance’: The construction of penitential models in Mary de Bohun’s Psalter-Hours Barbara Walsh, Driven by faith alone? Lifting the veil on the empowerment of middle class women in C19 and c20 UK Roman Catholic convents Julia Pitman, First in congregationalism: the ordination of women in international perspective Lucinda Matthews-Jones, The Josephine Butler Case. Uyilawa Usuanlele, ‘Baptism not for Benin princesses’: An African women’s struggle to become catholic in colonial Nigeria Laurence Lux-Sterrit, The spirituality of active congregations in C17 Europe: conventual practices at the heart of the apostolate Dinah Roe, ‘ A courteous tilt in the strong- minded woman lists’: Rossetti, God and the Question of women. Nancy Cho, ‘Dora Greenwell’: Victorian prophetess Anita Higgie, Maternity and Spirituality: the writings of Margery Kempe

For further information and a registration form contact Fiona Reid ([email protected]) or Ursula Mason ([email protected] or write to them at University of Glamorgan, School of Humanities and Social Acience, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL