Past Conferences
- Changing Minds
A Border Crossing Conference
September 25, 2009
- Fifth Annual Ministry Conference:
From the Ends of the Earth: Christianity and the 21st Century
May 1-2, 2009
- Culturing Theologies, Theologizing Cultures: Exploring the Worlds of Religion
April 22–23, 2009
- Resisting Mission: Redefining Engagement
A Border Crossing Event
January 23, 2009
- Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology: A Transatlantic Dialogue
The Divinity School, University of Chicago
(Wednesday October 29 to Friday October 31)
The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
(Saturday November 1 to Monday November 3)
- Authority and Intimacy: Forming Whole Persons for the Classroom and the Congregation
A Border Crossing Event
Friday, September 26, 2008
- Fourth Annual Divinity School Ministry Conference: From Dust to Steel: Human Being as Creature and Creator
April 18, 2008
- Conference in Honor of Professor David Tracy
May 4-6, 2008 (save the date)
More info to come.
- Border Crossing event: Music in American Religious Experience
Friday, January 25, 2008, Swift Lecture Hall
- Conference in Honor of Professor Martin E. Marty
Feb. 5-6, 2008 (save the date)
- Mourning and Religion
Oct. 26-27, Swift Lecture Hall
- Border Crossing event: Advocacy in the Pulpit and in the Classroom
Sept. 19, Swift Lecture Hall
- Through a Glass Darkly: The Church and Popular Culture in the Media Age
May 4, 2007
- Modernity's Other: Studies on Jewish Women
February 12-13, 2007
- The Self
January 26-27, 2007
- Physics, Philosophy, Physiology: Three Paths, One Spirited Product
January 26, 2007
- Hermeneutics in History: Mircea Eliade, Joachim Wach, and the Science of Religions
November 3�November 4, 2006
- Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology
October 14-15, 2005 (closed working group)
October 26-28, 2006 (public conference)
- India: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy
November 11�November 13, 2005
- Black Theology and Womanist Theology in Dialogue: Which Way Forward for the Church and the Academy?
October 31�November 4, 2005
- Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context
May 22-24, 2005
- Religion and the Democratic Prospect
May 12-13, 2005
- 2005 Ethics Club Lecture Series — Politics, Virtue, and Theology: Limits and Horizons
April 14, 2005 (and subsequent Thursdays)
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Contemporary Reflections on the Body
April 8, 2005, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Swift Hall
- Religion and the Democratic Prospect Book Discussion
February 10 and 11, 2005
- Religion and the Democratic Prospect
May 6-7, 2004
- The Poetic Imagination and Mysticism: The Poetry and Scholarship of Gershom Scholem
February 1-2, 2004
- Religion and the Democratic Prospect
November 6-7, 2003
- Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics
The 2003 D. R. Sharpe Lectures on Social Ethics
October 21-23, 2003
- Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past
October 8-10, 2003
- Pew Forum Conference on Theology, Morality, and Public Life
February 26-27, 2003
- Doing Justice to Mercy: Contemporary Problems and Prospects for Criminal Justice
April 12-13, 2002
- Ethics in a Time of Turmoil
April 5-6, 2002
- A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty
January 25, 2002
- Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life
October 26-27, 2000
- The Sacred and the Sovereign: Human Rights, the Use of Force, and Religious Pluralism at Century's Dawn
October 20, 2000