In the early 1970s, theological education saw an influx of women students, and Vanderbilt Divinity School was no exception. The Divinity School established a Women’s Task Force, which sponsored the first Antoinette Brown Lecture in 1974 and created the Office of Women’s Concerns. Named for Antoinette Brown, the first woman ordained to the ministry in the US, the Lectures were funded originally by benefactor Sylvia Sanders Kelley of Atlanta, GA, who received her BA from Vanderbilt in 1954. Over the past 50 years, the Office of Women’s Concerns, and later the Dean of the Divinity School, brought to campus theologians, Biblical scholars, church historians, ethicists, church leaders, and civil rights champions to speak on some aspect of religion as it relates to women. Join us for a tour of the lectures, both written and oral, and experience the passion and creativity of the lecturers. Visit https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/brown-lecture-series/ for more information.
Vanderbilt Divinity School Celebrates 50 Years of Antoinette Blackwell Brown Lectures
