Oct. 22nd—Conference on The Feminine Genius at Work in the World.

7:30 pm-Keynote by Mary Beth Bonacci, author, speaker and syndicated columnist, "The Feminine Genius at Work in the World" at the O'Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium, St. Paul Campus

Hosted by the Siena Symposium:  an interdisciplinary faculty group interested in developing the new feminism called for by John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae. 

Sponsors: Archdiocesan Office for Marriage, Family and Life. Murphy Institute for Law and Public Policy. Center for Catholic Studies.

Oct. 23rd—Conference on Mulieris Dignitatem and the Church's Social Vision: The Feminine Genius in the Pursuit of the Common Good

9:00 am-Keynote by Pia Francesca de Solenni (Awarded the 2001 Pontifical Prize of the Academies by Pope John Paul II) " Aquinas and the Feminine Genius" at the McNeely Hall Great Room, St. Paul Campus

4:00 pm-Anne Maloney, College of St. Catherine, "John Paul II and the Feminine Genius" at the McNeely Hall Great Room, St. Paul Campus

7:30 pm-Public Forum: Panel Discussion "Girl Genius: Educating for the Feminine Genius" 

Hosted by the Siena Symposium.

Sponsors: Murphy Institute for Law and Public Policy, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Center for Catholic Studies, John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, College of Arts and Sciences, Departments of Philosophy and Theology.

Oct. 24th—Conference on Visions of Women's Leadership at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis Campus

8:30 am-Keynote by Mary Pawlenty, First Lady of the State of Minnesota and former Minnesota State Judge at School of Law Schultze Room

10:45 am-Women in Law Panel: Judge Diana Murphy, Mary Cullen Yeager, Sonia Miller-Van Ort, Julie Oseid

12:30 pm-Keynote by Jill Wine-Banks, Chief Officer for Education to Careers in the Chicago Public Schools at School of Law Great Room

Sponsors: Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership, St. Thomas School of Law

Detailed conference schedule