2016 AAR Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
Friday, November 18th
A18-100Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee
Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Presiding
Theme: Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee Meeting
Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
A18-101
Regional Coordinators
Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Theme: Regional Coordinators Meeting
Friday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
A18-102
Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Michael Kessler, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion Business Meeting
Friday - 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
A18-103
Teaching and Learning Committee
Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis, Presiding
Theme: Committee Meeting
Friday - 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
A18-104
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Nargis Virani, New York, NY, Presiding
Theme: Committee Meeting
Friday - 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
A18-105
International Connections Committee
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, Presiding
Theme: Committee Meeting
Friday - 9:00 AM-2:30 PM
A18-106
THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp
John Crow, Florida State University; Michael Hemenway, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver; Eric Smith, Iliff School of Theology; and Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Theme: THATCampSBLAAR2016
Friday - 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
A18-107
Graduate Student Committee
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, Presiding
Theme: Graduate Student Committee Meeting
Friday - 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
A18-108
Leadership Workshop
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Regions Director, Presiding
Theme: Strategies for Successful Departmental Assessment
Friday - 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Panelists:
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Grant H. Potts, Austin Community College
Theodore Trost, University of Alabama
A18-109
Religion and Media Workshop
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston; Ann M. Burlein, Hofstra University; and M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: (Im)migration and Religion
Friday - 10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Abbas Barzegar and Clare Van Holm, Georgia State University
Applying Religious Studies to Turkish Politics and the Syrian Crisis: Digital Technology and Advanced Research in and out of the Classroom
Katherine Ewing, Columbia University
The Ambivalence of Belonging: Muslim Murders in the Media
Jeanette Jouili, University of Pittsburgh
Not British Enough? British Muslim Artists and the Performance of National and Global Belongings
Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University
"From Every People, Race, Tribe, and Tongue": Pentecostal Music in Xenophobic Times
Leah Sarat, Arizona State University
From Fragmentation to Wholeness: Envisioning Immigrant Detention in the United States
Luis Leon, University of Denver
The Mediated Figure of the Migrant: Religion and Immigration in the Age of Trump
A18-110
Regional Coordinators
Theme: How Might the Regions Become a Stronger and More Meaningful Presence in the Scholarly and Professional Lives of Their Members?
Friday - 12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Panelists:
Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University
Katherine Downey, Dallas, TX, Southwest Region
Jack A. Hill, Texas Christian University
B. J. Parker, Baylor University, Southwest Region
Deborah Minor, American Academy of Religion
Marc DiPaolo, Oklahoma City University
Rachel Toombs, Baylor University
A18-200
Tours
Theme: San Antonio City Tour
Friday - 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
A18-201
Ethnography and Theology Workshop
Theme: The Use of Ethnography for Theological Research
Friday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Panelists:
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University
Jeffrey Guhin, University of California, Los Angeles
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa
Valentina Napolitano, University of Toronto
Nichole Phillips, Emory University
Peter Ward, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Emmanuel College
A18-202
Rethinking Islamic Studies Workshop
Danielle Widmann Abraham, James Madison University, Presiding
Theme: Scholars in Dialogue: Engaging the Public in Conversations about Islam
Friday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
A18-203
Teaching Religion and Disability Studies Workshop
Theme: An Interactive Workshop on Curriculum and Pedagogy
Friday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Panelists:
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Deborah Creamer, Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, PA
Darla Schumm, Hollins University
Kirk VanGilder, Gallaudet University
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
A18-204
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College and Marcelle Williams, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding
Theme: Blurring Boundaries: Women’s Caucus Gathering and Workshop on the Transformation of Feminist Scholarship
Friday - 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Panelists:
Kathryn Common, Boston University
A18-300
Receptions/Breakfasts
Theme: Department Chairs' and Program Coordinators' Reception
Friday - 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
A18-400
Films
Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, Presiding
Theme: Purple Rain and Lazarus
Friday - 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
A18-401
Films
Theme: Timbuktu
Friday - 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Panelists:
Chérif Keïta, Carleton College
Dianna Bell, Vanderbilt University
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University
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Saturday, November 19th
A19-1Tours
Theme: Yoga Class
Saturday - 7:00 AM-8:00 AM
A19-2
Receptions/Breakfasts
Ardy Bass, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Theme: Regional Officers' Breakfast
Saturday - 7:30 AM-8:45 AM
A19-3
Receptions/Breakfasts
Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, Presiding
Theme: AAR New Members' Breakfast
Saturday - 7:30 AM-8:45 AM
A19-100
Public Understanding of Religion Committee and Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee and Religion and Politics Section
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable on Religion, Race, and the 2016 Elections
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Panelists:
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Michael Eric Dyson, University of Pennsylvania
Joy-Ann Reid, MSNBC
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
E.J. Dionne, Brookings Institute, Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
Responding:
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary
A19-101
North American Religions Section
Laura S. Levitt, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: Moving, Playing, Telling, Healing: Fresh Approaches to the Study of North American Religions
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Hillary Kaell, Concordia University, Montreal
Materiality and Transcendence: What Holy Land Pilgrimage Tells Us about the Study of Religion
Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College
Curanderismo and Religious Exchange in the United States
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University
Abrahamic Bargains: Reflections on Memory and Religion in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary
Telling Secrets: Evangelical Women, Sports Ministry, and the Ethics of Anthropological Representation
Responding:
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
A19-102
Hinduism Group
Karen Pechilis, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: On and Beyond the Surface: Temple Walls as Text, Object, and Experience
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Leah Comeau, University of the Sciences
Saturated Space, Signs of Devotion in South Indian Temples
Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Montreal
Biographies of South Indian Temple Inscriptions
Sucharita Adluri, Cleveland State University
Local and Trans-Local Religious Expressions: The Early Life of Some Andhra Inscriptions
Anna Seastrand, University of Chciago
Reading the Temple
Responding:
Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
A18-138
World Christianity Group
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Theme: Global Catholicisms
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Joseph Flipper, Bellarmine University
What “World” Means
P.J. Johnston, University of Iowa
Beyond Interreligious Dialogue: The World Religions, Communalism, and Catholic Identity in Contemporary South India
Jakob Egeris Thorsen, Aarhus University
Orthodox Christianity as a Maya Strategy of Modernization and Inculturation in Highland Guatemala
Michael Amoruso, University of Texas
Spiritual Transit: Rethinking Hybridity and Affiliation via São Paulo’s Devotion to Souls
Responding:
An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College
Business Meeting:
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University
Corey Williams, Leiden University
A19-103
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee
Richard McCarty, Mercyhurst University, Presiding
Theme: Expendable Bodies, Knowledge, and Positionality
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Panelists:
Heather White, University of Puget Sound
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Mark Larrimore, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University
A19-104
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Encouraging Student Engagement with Assigned Readings
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Panelists:
Joshua Canzona, Georgetown University
A19-105
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Agitating Boundaries: Intersectionality and Political Action
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, University of Cape Town
Postcolonial Imaginations of a Feminist Liberation Methodology
Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
Busting and Blurring Boundaries: Coagulation of Bodies at the Site of Struggle
Maha Marouan, Pennsylvania State University and Julia Berger, University of Kent
Faith-Based and Feminist NGOs: Forging a Common Agenda
A19-106
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding
Theme: Mystery, Memory, and Time
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Margaret Elwell, Princeton Theological Seminary
Buried Violence and the Theological Power of Memory
Jill Petersen Adams, Emory University
Crossing Worlds, Creating Worlds: Flâneuring with Mockett, Murakami, and Japanese Religion
Samuel Kessler, University of North Carolina
City of the Popes: Archetype, Storytelling, and the Mystical Power of Time in the Novels of Lawrence Durrell
Matthew Potts, Harvard University
The Sight of Memory: Rankine, Morrison, Certeau
Business Meeting:
Cláudio Carvalhaes, McCormick Theological Seminary
Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary
A19-107
Buddhism Section
Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Panelists:
Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia
Richard Nance, Indiana University
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
Bernard Faure, Columbia University
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Lori Meeks, University of Southern California
Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago
A19-108
Christian Systematic Theology Section and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group
Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: The Spirit from the Great Awakenings through Azusa: Pentecostal Receptions of Edwards’ Pneumatology
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Lisa Stephenson, Lee University
Pneumatological Ecclesiology: Jonathan Edwards and Pentecostal Theology in Dialogue
Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University
Portion of God or Principle of Action? Edwardsean-Pentecostal Reflections on the Holy Spirit as Divine Presence and Dispositional Agent
Steven Studebaker, McMaster Divinity College
Edwards’ Progressive and Proto-Pentecostal Pneumatology
Andrew Gabriel, Horizon College and Seminary
Jonathan Edwards’ Pneumatology as a Resource for Pentecostal Theology and Contemporary Theologies of the Spirit
Responding:
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
A19-109
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College, Presiding
Theme: On the Possibility of Magic
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Kenny Smith, Louisiana State University
The Contemporary American Magical Landscape
Theresa Smith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Piskey Led/ Bush Blind: The Transformative Relational Magic of Genii Loci
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Emory University
Beyond the Western Intellectual Landscapes of Bad Religion: African Mystical Technologies and the Politics of Translation
Alexis S. Wells, Vanderbilt University
Of Hags and Witches: The Limits and Possibilities of Magic in the Study of Enslaved Religiosity in the Lower South
Responding:
Dianne Stewart, Emory University
A19-110
Philosophy of Religion Section and Science, Technology, and Religion Group
Brad J. Kallenberg, University of Dayton, Presiding
Theme: Engaging the Philosophical Theology of Nancey Murphy
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Robert Russell, Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, Berkeley, CA
Assessing Nancey Murphy's Deployment of Lakatos for Theology and Science
Warren Brown, Fuller Theological Seminary
Spirituality Beyond the Self: Externalism and Worship
Ryan Newson, Campbell University
About Schmitt: Politics Beyond Divine Intervention or Process
Christian E. Early, Eastern Mennonite University
Evaluating Nancey Murphy’s Contribution to Philosophy of Religion
Responding:
Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary
A19-111
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, Presiding
Theme: Latino Protestant Congregations in America: Ethnographic Insights on Gender, Power, and Ethnic Identity
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Aida I. Ramos, University of Texas, San Antonio
Latino Protestant Megachurches in the Borderlands
Jonathan Calvillo, University of California, Irvine
Latino Evangelical Moral Identities: Remaining Ethnic while Reconceptualizing the Past
Ricardo Franco, Boston University School Theology
Women and the Distribution of Power in a Latino Pentecostal Church
Mark T, Mulder, Calvin College
“God is a God of Order”: Spontaneity and Constraint in Latino Pentecostal Worship
A19-112
Religion in South Asia Section
Steven Vose, Florida International University, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in the Study of Religion in South Asia: Translation, Mediation, and Authenticity
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Chloe Martinez, Claremont McKenna College
Against Authenticity: What Fake Autobiography Can Tell Us about Real Religion in South Asia
Gregory Clines, Harvard University
Plagiarized Purāṇas? Jain Textual Composition in Early Modernity
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida
The Making of Scripture in 19th-century Gujarat: An Analysis of the Oral and Textual Lives of the Svāmīnī Vāto
Genoveva Castro, University of Washington
Wajid Ali Shah's Adaptation of a Vaishnava Story: A Hindu-Muslim Encounter
Responding:
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury
A19-113
Teaching Religion Section and Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Group
Gabriella Lettini, Starr King School for the Ministry, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Challenging Subjects: The Role of Pedagogies of Moral Injury
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran and Darlene Fozard Weaver, Duquesne University
Moral Injury and Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching about Social Justice
Karen Vernice Guth, St. Catherine University
Moral Injury and the Ethics of Teaching Tainted Legacies
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Teaching Cultural Imagination as a Response to Moral Injury
Responding:
David Carrasco, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University
Rita Brock, Brite Divinity School
A19-114
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Mara Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
Theme: Religious Aesthetics, Theology, and the Humanities
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Robert Davis, Fordham University
Historicizing Religious Experience in the Human Sciences
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University
The Aesthetic Education of Theology: Theology and the Humanities in the 20th Century
Mark S. Cladis, Brown University
Radical Aesthetics and Poetics of Religion in Romanticism
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Public Religious Aesthetics: Theorizing the Affect and Import of Interreligious Aesthetics
Responding: