Culturing Theologies, Theologizing Cultures:
Exploring the Worlds of Religion
The 2009 D.R. Sharpe Lectures at the Divinity School
Additional cosponsors include the The William Henry Hoover Lectures at the Disciples Divinity House, the Divinity Students Association and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
April 22-23, 2009
Swift Hall, 1025 E 58th Street
Conference Overview
Program
April 22, 2009 (Wednesday)
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room
9:00am-9:15am: Welcome by Dean Richard A. Rosengarten, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and Dean of the Divinity School, University of Chicago
9:15am-10:30am: opening general lecture to the conference by Prof. Kathryn E. Tanner, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology in the Divinity School, University of Chicago
10:30am-11:45am: lecture by Prof. Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago, "Uncool Passion: When Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals"
12:00pm-2:00pm: Swift Hall, 1st Floor Common Room: Luncheon Panel Presentations -
Chaired by Kevin Boyd, Director of Field Education and Church Relations, University of Chicago Divinity School
Alain Epp Weaver "Returning to Kafr Bir'im: Palestinian Theological Cartography and the Arboreal Imagination"
Kristin Bloomer "Embodied Local Theologies: Maataa, Mary, and Other Subversive Spirits in South India"
Garry Sparks "Theologia Indorum: K'iche' Maya, Theological Ethnology, and the Americas' First Theology"
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room
2:30pm-3:45pm: lecture by Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr., President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
4:00pm-5:30pm: keynote lecture by Prof. Webb Keane, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: "Life with Others in Three Ethical Modalities"
5:30pm-8:00pm: Swift Hall, 1st Floor Common Room, Reception
April 23, 2009 (Thursday)
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room
9:00am-9:15am: Welcome by Prof. William Schweiker, Director of the Martin Marty Center of the Divinity School and Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago
9:15am-10:30am: lecture by Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy, Columbia University
10:30am-11:45am: lecture by Prof. Robin A. Shoaps, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
12:00pm-2:00pm: Swift Hall, 1st Floor Common Room: Luncheon Panel Presentations:
Chaired by the Rev. Dr. Eugene Winkler, Retired Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, the Chicago Temple, Chicago, Illinois
Santiago Piñón "Legal Rhetoric and Shaping the New World: Vitoria, Empire, and Theological Critique"
Kristel Clayville "Leviticus, the Personified Land, and the Prospects of a Biblical Theological Ecology"
B. Chris Dorsey "Reading Bodies: Theological Etiology and the Traditional Medicine Hospital in Senegal"
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room
2:30pm-3:45pm: lecture by Prof. Larry Bouchard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: "Tony Kushner's 'Homebody/Kabul': Kenosis Resisting Innocence"
4:00pm-5:30pm: closing general lecture by Prof. William Schweiker (U. Chicago)
5:30pm-8:00pm: closing reception in Swift Hall, 1st Floor Common Room
