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The 2015 AAR Western Region Annual Conference will be held at Sanat Clara, March 20-22,  San Jose, CA

2014 Conference Program
Loyola Marymount University is located in Westchester at 1 LMU Drive, approximately four miles north of the Los Angeles International Airport.

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  • Online registration for the 2014 Conference is now closed.  Onsite registration will open Friday, March 7th.

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Be sure to take advantage of pre-conference events, including sessions by the Queer Caucus and the Women's Caucus.  

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2014 Plenary Speaker: Rosemary Radford Ruether

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Rosemary Radford Ruether, Ph.D. is Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology.  She is also the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. Rosemary has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology.  

Ruether is the author of multiple articles and books including Sexism and God-Talk, Gaia and God, Women Healing Earth and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Her most recent books include Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism(2008), Many Forms of Madness: A Family’s Struggle with Mental Illness(2010), and Women and Redemption: A Theological History, 2nd ed.(2011).