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Div School at AAR/SBL 2025
November 18, 2025
Friday, November 21st:
| Start Time: | Speaker: | Title: | Location: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am | North American Paul Tillich Society | "Tillich and Nature" | Sheraton, Hampton (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Randall Reed, PhD'05, Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State University | Panelist "THATCamp" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 9:30 am | William Underwood, AM'17, PhD'24, Assistant Professor of Religion, Oberlin College & Conservatory | Panelist "Resituating Religious Studies" | Hilton Back Bay, Belvidere A (Second Floor) |
| 9:30 am | Aristotle Papanikolaou, PhD'98, Professor of Theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, Co-founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University | Keynote "Seeing, Embodying, and Performing Christ: Luther and Mystical Theology II" | Sheraton, Clarendon (Third Floor) |
| 11:00 am | Justin Henry, PhD'17, Bhagwan Padma Prabhu Endowed Assistant Professor, University of South Florida | "Echoes of Sri Lanka's Lion Rock: The Monks, Nuns, and Divine Damsels of the Sigiri Graffiti" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick A (Second Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Matthew Vaughan, MDiv'19, Associate Director of Instructional Design & Operations, Columbia University | Presiding "Closed Committee Meeting" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 1:00 pm | Davíd Carrasco, AM'72, PhD'77, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School | "The Legacy of Charles H. Long" | Tozzer Room #203, 21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| 1:00 pm | Philip P. Arnold, PhD'92, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Syracuse University | Panelist "Arts of Interpretation" | Tozzer Room #203, 21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| 1:00 pm | Emilie M. Townes, AB'77, AM'79, DMN'82, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion & Black Studies, Boston University School of Theology | Panelist "Arts of Interpretation" | Tozzer Room #203, 21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| 5:30 pm | Francis X. Clooney, PhD'84 Arts and Humanities, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School | Panelist "Session 4: Annual DANAM Book Award and Keynote Address" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick A (Second Floor) |
Saturday, November 22nd:
| Start Time: | Speaker: | Title: | Location: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Francis X. Clooney, PhD'84 Arts and Humanities, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School | Presider "Roundtable on God at Play: Lila in Hindu and Christian Traditions edited by Daniel Soars" | Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom C |
| 9:00 am | Aleksandar Uskokov, AM'13,PhD'18 Arts and Humanities, Senior Lector in Sanskrit and Director of Undergraduate Studies, South Asian Studies; Coordinator, Buddhist Studies Initiative, South Asian Studies Council, Buddhist Studies Initiative, Yale University | Panelist "Session 5: DANAM Annual Book Review Panel: Theodor, Ithamar, The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, Cambridge University Press, 2025" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick A (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Graham M. Schweig, AM'77, Professor, Director of Studies in Religion, Christopher Newport University | Panelist "Session 5: DANAM Annual Book Review Panel: Theodor, Ithamar, The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, Cambridge University Press, 2025" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick A (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Emilie M. Townes, AB'77, AM'79, DMN'82, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion & Black Studies, Boston University School of Theology | Panelist "Author Meets Respondents Session on Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology with Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones" | Hynes Convention Center, 207 |
| 9:00 am | Sally M. Promey, PhD'88 Humanities, Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture American Studies, Religious Studies, Divinity (Institute of Sacred Music), Director, Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR), Faculty Affiliate, History of Art, Yale University | Respondent "Book Panel: Sally Promey, Religion in Plain View" | Marriott Copley Place, Vermont (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Andrew Kunze, AM'14, PhD'21 | Panelist "Educating Hindus" | Sheraton, Dalton (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Elizabeth Block, PhD'13, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Theological Studies, Saint Louis University | "From Non-Interference to Provision of Necessary Resources and Just Conditions: Freedom, Responsibility, and Humility in the work of Dorothy Roberts and M. Shawn Copeland" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Todd D. Whitmore, PhD'90, Associate Professor, Concurrent Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame | "The Woman Caught in Addiction: Freedom, Responsibility, and Substance Use in a Regime of Gendered Torture" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Russell Johnson, AM'15, PhD'19, Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Director, Undergraduate Religious Studies Program and Core Sequence, University of Chicago | Presiding "Ethics Unit Business Meeting" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | William Underwood, AM'17, PhD'24, Assistant Professor of Religion, Oberlin College & Conservatory | "The Hallowed Realm of the Self-Possessed": Christian Conversions of Slavery and Freedom | Sheraton, Republic A (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Maharshi Vyas, AM'16, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | "Sacrifice Becomes “Violence?”: Changing Attitudes Towards Animal Life among Indigenous Communities of India" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 9:00 am | Jeremy Posadas, AB'03, Hal S. Marchman Chair of Civic and Social Responsibility; Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Gender Studies, Stetson University | "Imagining the Material Conditions of Liberation: The Abolition of Compulsory Waged Labor" | Marriott Copley Place, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Spencer Dew, AM'01, PhD'09, Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ohio State University | Respondent "Limits of “Religious Freedom” in Comparative Perspective" | Marriott Copley Place, Tufts (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Jonathan Gold, AM'95, PhD'03, Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Culture, Society and Religion, Princeton University | Panelist "Making Sense of Bill Waldron's Making Sense of Mind Only" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Karin Meyers, AM'00, PhD'10, Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University | Panelist "Making Sense of Bill Waldron's Making Sense of Mind Only" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Kartik Maini, Doctoral Researcher, Division of the Arts & Humanities, University of Chicago | "For the Muslims of Hindustān: Unsettling the Indic in Early Modern South Asia" | Hynes Convention Center, 308 |
| 9:00 am | Carolina Glauster, MDiv'14 | Presiding "Prophetic and Shamanic Women from a Global Perspective" | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Alex Matthews, AM'15, PhD'23 | Presiding "Technologies of Governance in Tibet and the Himalayas" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 9:00 am | Seth Auster-Rosen, Current PhD Student | "Can Madhyamaka Ground a Political Theory?: Tsongkhapa, Mikyö Dorje, and the Political Stakes of Buddhist Omniscience" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 9:00 am | Jetsun Deleplanque, PhD'22, 2024-2026 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, UC Berkley | "Theocracy in the Greater Tibetan Region: The Case of Bhutan" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 9:00 am | Charles Mathewes, AM'92, PhD'97, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Virginia | Panelist "The Current State and Present Prospects of Comparative Religious Ethics" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Irene Oh, AM'99, Associate Professor, Chairperson of the Department of World Religions, Core Faculty, George Washington University | Panelist "The Current State and Present Prospects of Comparative Religious Ethics" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Steven Bouma-Prediger, PhD'92, Professor of Religion, Hope College | Panelist "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 9:00 am | Rupa Pillai, MA'07 Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania | Panelist "The Rise of South Asian Conservatisms in the US" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 9:00 am | Heath Carter, AM'05, Associate Professor of American Christianity, Director of PhD Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary | Panelist "Roundtable Discussion on Niebuhr, Nations, and Nationalism" | Marriott Copley Place, Arlington (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Amy Carr, PhD'04, Professor of Religious Studies, Western Illinois University | Presiding "Book Panel on Risto Saarinen's Philosophical Justice and Reformation Righteousness: The Latin Aristotle to Luther and Melanchthon" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick B (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Tyler Harris, Current PhD Student | "Yahweh’s Mnestic Impairment and the First ʾôt as Narrative Prosthesis in the Priestly Source’s Flood Story" | Hynes Convention Center, 304 |
| 9:00 am | Lee Hoffer, AM'14, PhD'22, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago | Presiding "Rhetoric and Early Christianity Section" | Sheraton, Newbury (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Davíd Carrasco, AM'72, PhD'77, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School | Respondent "Authors Meet Critic- Religion in the Américas" | Sheraton, Fairfax A (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Kathryn Lofton, AB'00, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Yale University | Presiding "Book Panel on Mona Oraby's Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (2024)" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Andrea C. White, PhD'09, Associate Professor of Theology & Culture, Union Theological Seminary | Presiding "Creaturely Freedom: Human and Non-Human" | Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom C (Third Level) |
| 12:30 pm | Noah Salomon, AM'01, PhD'10, Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Virginia | Panelist "Book Panel on Mona Oraby's Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (2024)" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Karen Pechilis, AM'86, PhD'93, Professor & Chair, Drew University | "Devotion, Freedom, and Identity: An Early Female Saint" | Sheraton, Republic A (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Janna Gonwa, AM'13, Assistant Professor, Program Director, Theology, Gannon University | Presiding "Friendship, Freedom, and Divine Vulnerability: Jürgen Moltmann’s Relational Theology" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 | Joy McDougall, PhD'98, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Emory University | "Open Friendship: Jürgen Moltmann's Overture to Feminist Theology Today" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Matthew Harris, Assistant Professor of Religions in the Americas, University of Chicago | Panelist "Moral Re-Imagination and Grassroots Practices of Re-Worlding: The Work of Religious Rebinding in the Age of 'Post-Secular' Capitalism" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 12:30 pm | M. Emin Gulecyuz, PhD'25, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Loyola University Chicago | "Molla Fenari's Quranic Hermeneutics Between Legal Theory and Sufism" | Hynes Convention Center, 312 |
| 12:30 pm | Kelsey Cooper, AM'20 | "Pathways to Freedom: Afro-Brazilian Religion in Queer and Trans Activism" | Sheraton, Back Bay B (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Russell Johnson, AM'15, PhD'19, Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Director, Undergraduate Religious Studies Program and Core Sequence, University of Chicago | "Liberation and Reconciliation: J. Deotis Roberts, Mohandas Gandhi, and Śāntideva in Dialogue" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Melissa Borja, MA'06 History, Associate Professor; Director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Panelist "Panel Review of Yii-Jan Lin's Immigration and Apocalypse (Oxford: 2024)" | Hynes Convention Center, 210 |
| 1:00 pm | Sarah Yardney, AM'09, PhD'17 | "Reopening the Question of Greek Samuel and Greek Chronicles: Some Initial Observations" | Sheraton, Boylston (Third Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Nathan Hardy, AM'14, PhD'22, Assistant Dean of Students, University of Chicago | "Martyrdom of Longinus the Centurion (ECCA 730)" and Panelist "he Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes, Part 1" | Sheraton, Back Bay A (Second Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Kelly Holob, AM'16, PhD'25 | "Martyrdom of Longinus the Centurion (ECCA 730)" | Sheraton, Back Bay A (Second Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Emily Thomassen, Current PhD Student | "Like the Mother Who Gave Birth to You…Most Warlike among the Gods: Ištar’s Influence in the Levant and the Interpretation of Judahite Figurines" | Marriott Copley Place, Tremont (First Floor) |
| 1:30 pm | Karen DeVries, AM'99, Associate Teaching Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs | Panelist "Contextualizing Crisis without Universalism" | Hilton Back Bay, Belvidere A (Second Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Robert Saler, AM'03, Associate Dean for Evaluation and Assessment, Associate Professor of Theology and Culture, Christian Theological Seminary | Presiding "Beyond Labels: Exploring Critical Mixed-Race Ethics and Generational Trauma through Kendrick Lamar's Rhythmic Hermeneutic" | Marriott Copley Place, Vineyard (Fourth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Daniel Bannoura, AM'13, Teaching Scholar, Theology, University of Notre Dame | Presiding "Book Review Panel Discussion of Munther Isaac's Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Winnifred Sullivan, JD'76, PhD'93, Provost Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies Affiliate Professor, Law, Maurer School of Law Director, Center for Religion and the Human, Indiana University Bloomington | Respondent "Catholicism and State-Building: Protest, Piety, and Control" | Marriott Copley Place, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Eliza Kent, AM'93, PhD'99, Professor, Skidmore College | Presiding "Religious Conversions Unit Business Meeting" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 3:00 pm | Kathleen M. Self, AM'97, PhD'05, Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University | Presiding "Religious Conversions Unit Business Meeting" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 3:00 pm | Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia, University of Chicago | Panelist "In Search of Freedom: A Roundtable on Afsar Mohammad's "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad"" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 3:00 pm | Matthew Robinson, MDiv'09, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Bonn | Presiding "Is there such a thing as a Christian Nation? Cultural Christianity and Historical Progress" | Hynes Convention Center, 308 |
| 3:00 pm | Seth Perry, AM'04, PhD'13, Associate Professor of Religion, Princeton University | "Informal Canonization and the Revelations of John Taylor" | Sheraton, Gardner (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Dhruv Nagar, PhD'23, Bhagawan Arnath Postdoctoral Fellow in Jain Studies, Candler School of Theology | "What is an epic about?: Nīlakaṇṭha’s Bhāratabhāvadīpa and the Meta-Epic as Mode of Writing and Reflection" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Catherine Hartmann, AM'13, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming | "Hungry Ghosts No More: Buddhist Addiction Recovery Movements in the United States" | Hynes Convention Center, 207 |
| 3:00 pm | Matthew Vaughan, MDiv'19, Associate Director of Instructional Design & Operations, Columbia University | Presiding "Regions Forum" | Hynes Convention Center, 310 |
| 3:00 pm | Laura Ammon, AM'99, Appalachian State University | Presiding "Religion's Future in Space: Priests, Pastors, and Missionaries on the Final Frontier" | Marriott Copley Place, Suffolk (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Yiren Zheng, PhD'21 Arts and Humanities, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College | "Dream-Generated Poetry and Virtuality in Seventeenth-Century China" | Sheraton, Stuart (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Kristóf Oltvai, Current PhD Student | "Sapience or sovereignty? Divine power, papal authority, and the “chain of being” in dispute in 13th-century Paris" | Sheraton, Olmstead (Fifth Floor) |
| 3:30 pm | Jeffrey J. Kripal, AM'87, PhD'93, J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University | "The Sacred/Secular Binary: Challenging the Divide in University Culture and Democratic Societies, by Rory McEntee" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick B (Second Floor) |
| 3:30 pm | Jeffery Long, AM'93, PhD'00, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religious Studies, Elizabethtown College | "Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, by Jerry L. Martin" | Hilton Back Bay, Maverick B (Second Floor) |
| 4:00 pm | Jershua Neal, AB'94, Associate Professor of Homiletics, Duke Divinity School | "Review Panel of Sarah Jobe, No Godforsaken Place: Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prison (T&T Clark, 2025)" | Sheraton, Republic A (Second Floor) |
| 4:00 pm | Jeffrey Stackert, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago | Presiding "he Dangers of Deuteronomy: Reception and Legacy" | Sheraton, Fairfax B (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Sarah Imhoff, AM'05, PhD'10, Chair, Professor, Religious Studies Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington | Presiding "Business Meeting: Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit" | Marriott Copley Place, Fairfield (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Sonam Kachru, PhD'15, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University | Panelist "Foucauldian responses to /The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other/" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Adam Stern, AM'10, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison | Panelist "Foucauldian responses to /The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other/" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Daniel Wyche, AM'10, PhD'20, Senior Scholar with the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University | Respondent "Foucauldian responses to /The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other/" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Raul Zegarra, PhD'21, Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School | Panelist "La Comunidad Book Panel" | Marriott Copley Place, Vermont (Fifth Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Feryal Salem, AM'03, PhD'13 Humanities, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College | Respondent: "New books on contemporary France: Islam, Pluralism, and Religious Difference" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | William Wood, AM'00, PhD'07, Clifford Potter Fellow and Tutor in Theology, Oriel College, University of Oxford | Presiding "Normative and Descriptive Modes of Inquiry: Can they Relate?" | Sheraton, Back Bay B (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Charles Mathewes, AM'92, PhD'97, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Virginia | Panelist "Normative and Descriptive Modes of Inquiry: Can they Relate?" | Sheraton, Back Bay B (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Constance Furey, AM'93, PhD'00, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington | Respondent "Normative and Descriptive Modes of Inquiry: Can they Relate?" | Sheraton, Back Bay B (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Eric Bain-Selbo, PhD'97, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Southeast Missouri State University | Respondent "Religion, Sport, and PLAY" | Marriott Copley Place, Provincetown (Fourth Floor) |
Sunday, November 23rd:
| Start Time: | Speaker: | Title: | Location: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia, University of Chicago | Panelist "New Books in Hindu Studies" | Hynes Convention Center, 110 |
| 9:00 am | Shankar Ramaswami, AM'98, PhD'12 Social Sciences Division, Professor and Executive Director-Centre for Justice Studies, Jindal Global Law School | Panelist "New Books in Hindu Studies" | Hynes Convention Center, 110 |
| 9:00 am | Elsa Marty, MDiv'11, PhD'23, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hofstra University | "Caste and Tribe: Rethinking the Margins in Hindu-Christian Ethics" | Marriott Copley Place, Provincetown (Fourth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Jonathan Gold, AM'95, PhD'03, Professor of Religion, Director of the Center for Culture, Society and Religion, Princeton University | Panelist "Author-Meets-Critics: Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation (New York University Press, 2022)" | Marriott Copley Place, Boylston (First Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Andrea C. White, PhD'09, Associate Professor of Theology & Culture, Union Theological Seminary | Panelist "Book Panel: Natalie Carnes, Attunement: The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology" | Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom C (Third Level) |
| 9:00 am | Lawrence McCrea, PhD'98 Humanities, Professor, Cornell University | Panelist " Debating Yogic Perception: A Philosophical Roundtable" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Courtney Wilder, AM'00, PhD'08, Professor of Religion, Midland University | Panelist "Exploring Disability Eschatology: A Constructive Conversation with Maja Whitaker" | Hynes Convention Center, 201 |
| 9:00 am | Vivek Shah, AM'21 | Panelist "Exploring Disability Eschatology: A Constructive Conversation with Maja Whitaker" | Hynes Convention Center, 201 |
| 9:00 am | Jeffrey J. Kripal, AM'87, PhD'93, J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University | Respondent "How to Teach “Impossibly”: Thinking about Comparison With, Against, and Through Jeff Kripal's Work" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Mayanthi Fernando, AM'02, PhD'06 Social Sciences Division, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz | Respondent "Muslim/Freedom" | Sheraton, Stuart (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Feryal Salem, AM'03, PhD'13 Humanities, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College | Presiding "Nostra Aetate at 60" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 9:00 am | David Newheiser, PhD'12, Associate Professor of Religion, Florida State University | Presiding "Political Theology as Performance: A Panel on Staging Sovereignty by Arthur Bradley" | Sheraton, Back Bay D (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Seth Auster-Rosen, Current PhD Student | Presiding "Tales of the (Im)possible in Tibetan Buddhism and Speculative Fiction" | Hynes Convention Center, 308 |
| 9:00 am | Catherine Hartmann, AM'13, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming | "Zombie Ethics: Narratives of Liberation and Entrapment in Tibetan Zombie Tales and George Saunders' "Liberation Day"" | Hynes Convention Center, 308 |
| 9:00 am | Natasha Mikles, AM'10, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University | "Teaching Buddhism in 2025" | Marriott Copley Place, Vineyard (Fourth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Marshall Cunningham, PhD'20, Assistant Instructional Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East, University of Chicago | "Haggai 1: Judean Loyalty and Divine Sovereignty in the Persian Period" | Hynes Convention Center, 109 |
| 9:30 am | Russell Johnson, AM'15, PhD'19, Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Director, Undergraduate Religious Studies Program and Core Sequence, University of Chicago | "Every Hero Needs a Villain: Conflict as Dramatic and Mimetic" | Marriott Copley Place, Grand Ballroom B (Fourth Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Stephan Licha, Assistant Professor of Japenese Buddhism, University of Chicago | "Making Dōgen: Hagiographical Strategies of Legitimization in Medieval Sōtō Zen Buddhism" | Sheraton, Republic B (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Bruce Winkelman, PhD'23, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, DePauw University | "Controversy as Hagiography: The Disputed Life of Shinran in Early-Modern Shin Buddhism" | Sheraton, Republic B (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Eliza Kent, AM'93, PhD'99, Professor, Skidmore College | Presiding "Bollywood, Hindutva, and Pedagogy" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 12:30 pm | Francesca Chubb-Confer, AM'13, PhD'20, Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College | Panelist "Bollywood, Hindutva, and Pedagogy" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 12:30 pm | Dhruv Nagar, PhD'23, Bhagawan Arnath Postdoctoral Fellow in Jain Studies, Candler School of Theology | "Knowing or Contemplating as 'Attending to': The Body and its Immaterial Other in Sāṃkhya, Advaita and Trika" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Colin Weaver, PhD'24, Divinity School Teaching Fellow in the College, University of Chicago | "Mercy Killing and Self-Sacrificing Deer: Projections of Animal Desire and Autonomy in Evangelical Hunting Devotionals" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 12:30 pm | Katharine Mershon, AM'09, PhD'18, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University | Presiding "Animals and Religion Unit Business Meeting" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 12:30 pm | Danica Cao, Current PhD Student | Presiding "How to Pay Attention: The Early European Sciences and Aesthetics of Attention" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 12:30 pm | Rebekah Rosenfeld, Current PhD Student | "Ethical Attention, Scientific Explanation: Wonder in the Epistemologies of Descartes and Spinoza" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 12:30 pm | Ella Wilhelm, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Faculty; German; Graduate Faculty, University of Michigan | "Cosmic Absorption: On the Aesthetics of Schleiermacher's Romantic Religion" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 12:30 pm | Ryan Coyne, AM'02, PhD'08, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, University of Chicago | Respondent "How to Pay Attention: The Early European Sciences and Aesthetics of Attention" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 12:30 pm | Michael Puett, AM'87, PhD'94 Social Sciences Division, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Professor, Director, Asia Center, Harvard University | Panelist "Music and Joy: Lessons on the Good Life (Daniel Chua)" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago | Panelist "Noteworthy Trends and Developments in English-language Scholarship on Korean Religions in the Past Twenty-Five Years" | Marriott Copley Place, Suffolk (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Anna Schultz, Professor of Music and the Humanities; Performance Studies Chair; Department Chair, University of Chicago | "A Mother’s Longing: Performances of Sarah in the Bene Israel Akedah" | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Elaine Fisher, AB'05, AM'07, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University | Presiding "Tantric Objects and Tantric Subjects: Exploring Materiality, Presence, and Power in Tantric Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions" | Hynes Convention Center, 308 |
| 12:30 pm | Anita Houck, AM'90, PhD'00, Professor, Saint Mary's College | "Freedom from Oppression, Freedom for Joy: Humor as a Liberative Spiritual Practice" | Hynes Convention Center, 110 |
| 1:00 pm | Erin Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago | "Portrait of Holiness: The Rich Man and Lazarus between Narsai and Jacob of Serugh" | Marriott Copley Place, Yarmouth (Fourth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Karin Krause, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Religious Culture, University of Chicago | Presiding "Catholic Studies’ Haunted History: Methodological Approaches to Medieval Pasts" | Sheraton, Dalton (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Randall Reed, PhD'05, Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State University | Presiding "Coded Beliefs: AI's Impact on Traditions, Moral Agency, and Workplaces" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 3:00 pm | Whittney Barth, JD'19, Executive Director, Charlotte McDaniel Scholar, Associate Teaching Professor, Emory University | "Assessing New Frontiers for When AI Meets Religion in the Workplace" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 3:00 pm | Paride Stortini, PhD'22, FWO research fellow, Ghent University | Presiding "East Asian Self-Cultivation Practices in Transnational and Diasporic Perspective" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 3:00 pm | Myriam Renaud, MDiv'05, PhD'18, Affiliated Faculty in Bioethics, DePaul University | Panelist "Evangelicals and Labor" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Jeremy Posadas, AB'03, Hal S. Marchman Chair of Civic and Social Responsibility; Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Gender Studies, Stetson University | Panelist "Evangelicals and Labor" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Matthew Peterson, AM'16, PhD'24, Postdoctoral Scholar, Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California | "The Unconscious of History: Religion and Fascism between the World Wars and Today" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 3:00 pm | William Underwood, AM'17, PhD'24, Assistant Professor of Religion, Oberlin College & Conservatory | Respondent "Fascist Genealogies and the "Beyond" of Reason" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 3:00 pm | Feryal Salem, AM'03, PhD'13 Humanities, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College | Presiding "Interactive Workshop" | Hynes Convention Center, 312 |
| 3:00 pm | Benjamin Sax, PhD'08, Head of Scholarship, Jewish Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore | Presiding "Interactive Workshop" | Hynes Convention Center, 312 |
| 3:00 pm | Aleksandar Uskokov, AM'13,PhD'18 Arts and Humanities, Senior Lector in Sanskrit and Director of Undergraduate Studies, South Asian Studies; Coordinator, Buddhist Studies Initiative, South Asian Studies Council, Buddhist Studies Initiative, Yale University | Presiding "Liberation as Sovereignty, Space, and Mindlessness (Emerging Scholars in Hindu Philosophy)" | Marriott Copley Place, Boylston (First Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Vivek Shah, AM'21 | "Līlā’s Adventures in the Pavillion: Freedom and the Space of Consciousness in the Mokṣopāya" | Marriott Copley Place, Boylston (First Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Amy M. Hollywood, AM'86, PhD'91, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard University | Panelist "Love, Risk, and an Uncertain Future: Fannie Bialek’s Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 3:00 pm | Samuel Brody, PhD'13, Associate Professor, University of Kansas | "The Tribe, the Text, and the Land: Judaism, Pragmatism, and Native American Thought" | Marriott Copley Place, Simmons (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Hector Varela Rios, AM'15, PhD'21, Raquel and Alfonso Martínez-Fonts Endowed Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies, Villanova University | Panelist "Saints and (Alternative) Embodiment" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Emilie Amar-Zifkin, AM'15, Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, McGill University | "Faithful Retellings: The Literary Afterlives of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 3:00 pm | Ranana Dine, PhD'25 | "Jewish Memorial Wallpaper: Synagogue Yahrzeit Plaques as Material Memory and Communal Concern" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 3:00 pm | Heath Carter, AM'05, Associate Professor of American Christianity, Director of PhD Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary | Panelist "The Classroom as a Site of Healing: Pedagogies of Care and Justice" | Westin Copley Place, Great Republic (Seventh Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Michael Hogue, AM'00, PhD'05, Professor of Theology, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Meadville Lombard Theological School | Panelist "The Classroom as a Site of Healing: Pedagogies of Care and Justice" | Westin Copley Place, Great Republic (Seventh Floor) |
| 4:00 pm | Marshall Cunningham, PhD'20, Assistant Instructional Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East, University of Chicago | Presiding "Book of Ezekiel Section and Literature and History of the Persian Period Section" | Marriott Copley Place, Hyannis (Fourth Floor) |
| 4:00 pm | Simeon Chavel, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago | "The Impact of Ezekiel (560s BCE) on Isa 40–48 (530s BCE)" | Marriott Copley Place, Hyannis (Fourth Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Theodore Vial, AM'87, PhD'94, Harvey Potthoff Professor of Theology and Modern Western Religious Thought, Iliff School of Theology | Presiding "AI Experiments: Balancing Innovation, Bias, and Agency in AI-Driven Religious Studies" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 5:00 pm | Randall Reed, PhD'05, Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State University | "The Thoughts of AI" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 5:00 pm | Karin Krause, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Religious Culture, University of Chicago | "Ideas of Peace in an Illuminated Manuscript from Byzantium" | Marriott Copley Place, Simmons (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Willemien Otten, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity, University of Chicago | Panelist "Augustine the African: A Roundtable Discussion" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 5:00 pm | Yousef Casewit, Associate Professor of Qur'anic Studies, University of Chicago | Respondent "Envisioning the Future of Constructive Muslim Work" | Sheraton, Back Bay D (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Aaron Hollander, PhD'18, Executive Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute | Presiding "Fictional Saints" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Joel Swanson, AM'18, PhD'24, Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College | Panelist "Fictional Saints" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Benjamin Sax, PhD'08, Head of Scholarship, Jewish Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore | Presiding "Oct. 7th and the Question of Genocide in Gaza: A Panel Discussion with Omer Bartov" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Natasha Mikles, AM'10, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University | Presiding "Privilege and Positionality in Tibetan and Himalayan Fieldwork Settings" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 5:00 pm | Nisheeta Jagtiani, AM'16 | Panelist "Privilege and Positionality in Tibetan and Himalayan Fieldwork Settings" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 5:00 pm | Hugh B. Urban, AM'92, PhD'98, Professor and Department Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University | "The Church of Ambrosia: Religion, Law, and the Role of the Scholar in a Contemporary Psychedelic Church" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 5:00 pm | Mayanthi Fernando, AM'02, PhD'06 Social Sciences Division, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz | Respondent "Psychedelics, Religion, and the Law" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 5:00 pm | Alda Balthrop-Lewis, MDiv'11, Associate Professor of Religion, Florida State University | Panelist "Religion and Ethics in the Wake of the Anthropocene" | Sheraton, Fairfax A (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Samah Choudhury, University of Chicago | Panelist "Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Towards Awareness and Accountability – A Conversation" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 5:30 pm | Timothy S. Lee, AM'86, PhD'96, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Brite Divinity School | Presiding "Korean North American Theology: Book Review" | Westin Copley Place, North Star (Seventh Floor) |
| 9:00 pm | University of Chicago Divinity School Reception | Join the alumni, professors, students, and friends of the University of Chicago Divinity School for conversation and refreshments, and hear from Dean Robinson about the School's exciting upcoming events and opportunities. | Sheraton, Grand Ballroom (Second Floor) |
Monday, November 24th:
| Start Time: | Speaker: | Title: | Location: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Chase Viscuse, Current MA Student | "Serpents, Social Norms, and Good Ole Southern Communitas: A Theoretical Approach to Appalachian Serpent Handling" | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Elsa Marty, MDiv'11, PhD'23, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hofstra University | "Bitcoin is Freedom: Rituals in Bitcoin Maximalism" | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Kartik Maini, Doctoral Researcher, Division of the Arts & Humanities, University of Chicago | Panelist "Homes, Histories, and Political Commitments in Ethnographies of Hinduism" | Sheraton, Back Bay B (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Kari Martin, Current PhD Student | "How To Speak With a Tree: Erazim Kohak's Ecological Personalism and the Ecopoetics of Environmental Disaster" | Hynes Convention Center, 110 |
| 9:00 am | Sally M. Promey, PhD'88 Humanities, Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture American Studies, Religious Studies, Divinity (Institute of Sacred Music), Director, Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR), Faculty Affiliate, History of Art, Yale University | Respondent "(Mis)Remembering America: Religion and Forgetting in the United States" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Spencer Dew, AM'01, PhD'09, Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ohio State University | Presiding "Drawing Religion: Approaches to Comics and Graphic Novels in Research, Reviewing, and Scholarship" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |
| 9:00 am | Nicholas Collins, AM'10 | "Karmayogin: The Practical Mysticism of Sri Aurobindo in the Struggle Against Fascism and Colonialism" | Sheraton, Gardner (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Francis X. Clooney, PhD'84 Arts and Humanities, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School | Panelist "Poetics of Comparison. A Roundtable in Honor of Francis Clooney" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Constance Furey, AM'93, PhD'00, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington | Panelist "Political Poetics of Singularity: Theopolitical Entanglements" | Sheraton, Back Bay D (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Adam Stern, AM'10, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison | Panelist "Political Poetics of Singularity: Theopolitical Entanglements" | Sheraton, Back Bay D (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Jue Liang, AM'13, Assistant Professor, Severance Chair, History of Religion, Case Western Reserve University | "A Liberatory Complementarianism?: Contemporary Tibetan Nuns Theorize Motherhood and Womanhood" | Sheraton, Dalton (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Justin Henry, PhD'17, Bhagwan Padma Prabhu Endowed Assistant Professor, University of South Florida | "Capitalism and the Cultivation of Virtue from Jain Perspective" | Marriott Copley Place, Simmons (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago | Presiding "Religion, Resistance, and Reform: Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea's 2024 Martial Law Decree" | Sheraton, Stuart (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Thomas Borchert, AM'97, PhD'06, Chair, Professor, University of Vermont | Presiding "Religious Labor in the Making of Buddhist Worlds" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Winnifred Sullivan, JD'76, PhD'93, Provost Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies Affiliate Professor, Law, Maurer School of Law Director, Center for Religion and the Human, Indiana University Bloomington | Respondent "Stating and Unstating: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan’s Contributions to the Study of Law and Religion" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Robert A. Yelle, PhD'02, Chair of Religious Studies, LMU Munich | Panelist "Stating and Unstating: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan’s Contributions to the Study of Law and Religion" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Margaret Mitchell, AM'82, PhD'89, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago | Panelist "Origen’s New Homilies on the Psalms (Codex Monacensis Graecus 314)" | Hynes Convention Center, 304 |
| 9:00 am | Jeffrey Stackert, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Chicago | "The Place of Deuteronomy 27 in the Deuteronomic Work" | Hynes Convention Center, 200 |
| 12:30 pm | Kathryn Lofton, AB'00, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Yale University | Presiding "Archives and Abuse: Boston’s Bishop Accountability as a Case Study in Digital Public Access" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Brian Clites, AM'07, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II; Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University | Panelist "Archives and Abuse: Boston’s Bishop Accountability as a Case Study in Digital Public Access" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Amanda Lucia, AM'04, PhD'10, Professor of Religion, University of California, Riverside | Panelist "Archives and Abuse: Boston’s Bishop Accountability as a Case Study in Digital Public Access" | Sheraton, Independence East (Second Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Sarah Imhoff, AM'05, PhD'10, Chair, Professor, Religious Studies Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington | Panelist "Author-Meets-Critics: M. Wolff's Body Problems" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 12:30 pm | David Aftandilian, AM'95, PhD'07 Social Sciences Division, Associate Professor of Anthropology & Director of the Human-Animal Relationships Minor, Texas Christian University | Panelist "Beyond Personhood: New Ways to Imagine Our Solidarity with Animals" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 12:30 pm | Katharine Mershon, AM'09, PhD'18, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University | Panelist "Beyond Personhood: New Ways to Imagine Our Solidarity with Animals" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 12:30 pm | Benjamin Sax, PhD'08, Head of Scholarship, Jewish Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore | Presiding "Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit Business Meeting" | Marriott Copley Place, Simmons (Third Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Philip P. Arnold, PhD'92, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Syracuse University | Panelist "Doctrine of Discovery and Environmental Devastation" | Hynes Convention Center, 310 |
| 12:30 pm | Ranana Dine, PhD'25 | "An Ethics of Erasure: The Jewish Moral Response to the Dead Body" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth |
| 12:30 pm | Sarah Zager, AM'15, Assistant Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College | "The Law of Those We Hope For: Abstraction, Infertility, and Obligation In Feminist Jewish Ethics" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth |
| 12:30 pm | Abimbola Adelakun, Associate Professor of Global Christianity, University of Chicago | "Everything Christianity Represents is being Destroyed on the Internet!: Pentecostalism and Platformization in Nigeria" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Satoko Fujiwara, PhD'01, Professor, University of Tokyo | "Games set you free: The Ideologization of Gaming by “spiritual intellectuals” in Japan" | Marriott Copley Place, Boylston (First Floor) |
| 12:30 pm | Anthony Petro, AM'04 Social Sciences Division, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame | Respondent "Thinking with Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars (OUP, 2025)" | Hynes Convention Center, 203 |
| 12:30 pm | Samuel Catlin, AM'17, PhD'22 Arts and Humanities, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Trinity College | Panelist "Thinking with Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars (OUP, 2025)" | Hynes Convention Center, 203 |
| 12:30 pm | Kris Trujillo, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Arts and Humanities and the Divinity School, University of Chicago | Panelist "Thinking with Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars (OUP, 2025)" | Hynes Convention Center, 203 |
| 1:00 pm | Paride Stortini, PhD'22, FWO research fellow, Ghent University | "Modern Displays of Buddhism or Displaying Buddhist Modernity? Multiple Temporalities at Two Recent Exhibitions in Japan and Belgium" | Westin Copley Place, Empire (Seventh Floor) |
| 1:00 pm | Lane Valley, Current MA Student | "The Racist Practice of Curricular Omission" | Hynes Convention Center, 204 |
| 1:00 pm | Margaret Mitchell, AM'82, PhD'89, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago | Panelist "Hugh Houghton’s New Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament" and "Reflections on the New Textual Commentary" | Hynes Convention Center, 202 |
| 1:00 pm | Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies, University of Chicago | Panelist "he Monster, the Outsider, and the Weirdo in Northwest Semitic Literatures" | Sheraton, Fairfax B (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Dawne Moon, AB'91, AM'94, PhD'00 Social Sciences Division, Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexualities Studies, Marquette University | Respondent "Book Panel on Choosing Love: What LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us All About Relationships, Inclusion, and Justice" | Sheraton, Gardner (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Alexander Rocklin, AM'07, PhD'14, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Kenyon College | "Slippery Devils and Resource Curses: Moral Panics, Obeah, and Popular Constructions of Esotericism in Colonial Trinidad" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Karin Meyers, AM'00, PhD'10, Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University | Presiding "Freedom and Bondage in and around Buddhism" | Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom C (Third Level) |
| 3:00 pm | Peter Yuanxi Chen, AM'20 | "Thinking Dialectically with Zhang Taiyan" | Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom C (Third Level) |
| 3:00 pm | Guillermo Flores Borda, LLM'13, AM'24 | "Contemporary Religious Political Parties in Latin America" | Sheraton, Liberty A (Second Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Constance Furey, AM'93, PhD'00, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington | Presiding "Mysticism, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Debating Simon Critchley's Mysticism (2024)" | Marriott Copley Place, Tufts (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Amy M. Hollywood, AM'86, PhD'91, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard University | Panelist "Mysticism, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Debating Simon Critchley's Mysticism (2024)" | Marriott Copley Place, Tufts (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Amanda Lucia, AM'04, PhD'10, Professor of Religion, University of California, Riverside | Panelist "On Beauty: Text and Context" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 3:00 pm | Kirsten Collins, AM'17, PhD'25, Alma Wilson Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago | "Brothers In Misfortune: Blackness, Jewishness, and the Fetish in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks" | Marriott Copley Place, Dartmouth (Third Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Kathleen M. Self, AM'97, PhD'05, Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University | Presiding "Religious Trauma and Deconversion: Gender, Sexuality, Faith and Formation" | Hynes Convention Center, 203 |
| 3:00 pm | Andrea C. White, PhD'09, Associate Professor of Theology & Culture, Union Theological Seminary | Respondent "The Politics of Redemption: A Conversation with M. Shawn Copeland" | Hynes Convention Center, 108 |
| 3:00 pm | Braxton Shelley, MDiv'17, Professor of Music, Sacred Music, and Divinity, Yale Institute of Sacred Music | Panelist "Theomusicology for Today" | Sheraton, Back Bay D (Second Floor) |
| 3:00 pm | Feryal Salem, AM'03, PhD'13 Humanities, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College | Presiding "Weaponization of Religious Freedom" | Marriott Copley Place, Simmons (Third Floor) |
| 4:00 pm | Allison Evatt, AM'24 | "Gendered Labor in Luke's Narrative of Jesus's Anointing" | Hynes Convention Center, 313 |
| 5:00 pm | Samah Choudhury, University of Chicago | Panelist "Author Meets Readers Session: Reflections on Kecia Ali's The Woman Question" | Hynes Convention Center, 209 |
| 5:00 pm | William Schultz, Assistant Professor of American Religion, University of Chicago | Presiding "Is Christian Nationalism White?" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Guillermo Flores Borda, LLM'13, AM'24 | Panelist "Is Christian Nationalism White?" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Marielle Harrison, AM'16, PhD'25, University of Chicago | "Smelling Caste in Mahāyāna Sūtras" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Daniel Bannoura, AM'13, Teaching Scholar, Theology, University of Notre Dame | Panelist "Religion, Scholasticide, and Campus Repression" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 5:00 pm | Jorunn J. Buckley, PhD'78, Professor of Religion Emerita, Bowdoin College | Respondent "Review and Discussion of Recent Books about Mandaeism" | Marriott Copley Place, Suffolk (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Seth Perry, AM'04, PhD'13, Associate Professor of Religion, Princeton University | Panelist "Revisiting Classic Books in Mormon Studies" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 5:00 pm | Patrick Lambelet, AM'16, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Maitripa College | Presiding "Ritual Education in Buddhist Monasticism: Tradition, Transmission, and Adaptation" | Sheraton, Fairfax A (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Emily King, MDiv'23 | "Platonist Writing and Divine Vision: The Phaedrus and the Notebooks of Simone Weil" | Sheraton, Stuart (Third Floor) |
| 5:00 pm | Katrina Myers, Current PhD Student | "Solace without Salvation: Schopenhauerian Ethics and Hopelessness" | Sheraton, Liberty C (Second Floor) |
| 5:40 pm | William Brown, MA'18 | "Crafting and Writing the Stone Tablets of Exodus as Foundation Deposits" | Hynes Convention Center, 309 |
| 7:00 pm | Jue Liang, AM'13, Assistant Professor, Severance Chair, History of Religion, Case Western Reserve University | Presiding "Memorial Session for Michael Ium" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 7:00 pm | Catherine Hartmann, AM'13, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming | Panelist "Memorial Session for Michael Ium" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 7:00 pm | Patrick Lambelet, AM'16, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Maitripa College | Panelist "Memorial Session for Michael Ium" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 7:00 pm | Natasha Mikles, AM'10, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University | Panelist "Memorial Session for Michael Ium" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
Tuesday, November 25th:
| Start Time: | Speaker: | Title: | Location: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | M. Cooper Harriss, AM'98, PhD'11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, | Presiding "Arts, Literature, and Religion at the Centennial of 1925" | Sheraton, Republic A (Second Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Jawad Qureshi, PhD'19, Associate Professor, Zaytuna College | Panelist "Author Meets Critics: Revisiting Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination after 20 Years" | Sheraton, Berkeley (Third Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Matthew Harris, Assistant Professor of Religions in the Americas | Panelist "Author-Meets-Respondents on Barbara Sostaita's Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert" | Hynes Convention Center, 206 |
| 9:00 am | Kristi Del Vecchio, PhD'25, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Bucknell University | "Environmental Conditions for the Possibility of Reproductive Freedom" | Hynes Convention Center, 105 |
| 9:00 am | Ronghu Zhu, AM'21, Current PhD Student | "Coming to terms with Chastity: Strategic Uses of Religion for Women Sexuality in Medieval China" | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Linden Smith, AM'21 | "Philosophy as a Way out of Life: Wittgenstein’s Mystical Ethics" | Hynes Convention Center, 101 |
| 9:00 am | Zachary Taylor, Current PhD Student | "Between Icon and Idol: Augustine in Film and the Problem of the Christian Hero" | Sheraton, The Fens (Fifth Floor) |
| 9:00 am | Melissa Borja, MA'06 History, Associate Professor; Director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Presiding "What’s in a Name? Contextual Approaches to “Evangelical” in Scholarship and Practice" | Hynes Convention Center, 103 |