Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members will be in San Diego, California in late November to present during the 2019 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.
The conference, which takes place November 23-26, brings thousands of professors and students, authors and publishers, religious leaders and interested laypersons together each year. It is the largest event of the year in the fields of religious studies and theology. Some 10,000 people are expected for the 2019 Annual Meetings, where more than 1,000 academic sessions and additional meetings will be offered.
HDS is hosting, along with the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University's AAR/SBL reception. The reception will be held November 23, from 9 to 11 pm, at Petco Park.
Below is a list of HDS faculty members who will be presenting at the Annual Meetings. For details on the many other Harvard University students, faculty, and affiliates presenting, search the online conference programs.
Giovanni Bazzana
- Panelist: “The Links between Jerusalem and Caesarea Maritima”; Paper: “Tales of Two Cities”; November 25, 9-11:30 am, Hilton Bayfront - Sapphire I
- Book Review Panelist: “Recent Q Scholarship”; November 25, 4-6:30 pm, Hilton Bayfront - Indigo D
Davíd Carrasco
- Panel Respondent: “Remembering and Moving with the Work of Luís D. León: A Commemorative Conversation”; November 23, 9-11:30 am, Convention Center-3
- Paper: “Cosmovision as an Epistemological Hermeneutic for an Ecological and Social Meaning of Religion”; November 23, noon-2:30 pm, Marriott Marquis-Pacific 14
Francis X. Clooney
- Panel Respondent: “Intersection of Hindu-Christian Comparative Theology and Religious Pluralism”; November 24, 9-11:30 am, Convention Center-11A
- Panelist: “Teaching Religion in Translation: Take Hinduism, for Example”; November 24, 1-3 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502A
- Panelist: “Beyond Reductionism: Applying and Adjusting Robert Orsi’s Metric of Presence Across Religions”; November 24, 5:30-7 pm, Convention Center-15A
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
- Panel Presider: Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network; November 22, 4-6 pm, Convention Center-28A
- Panelist: Review of Susanne Scholz, The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2017); November 23, 1-3:30 pm, Convention Center - 25B
- Book Panel Presider: “Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, by Kathleen Gallagher Elkins”; November 24, 9-11:30 am, Marriott Marquis - Pacific Ballroom 17
Janet Gyatso
- Book Review Panelist: “At the Intersection of Buddhist and Animal Studies: Reiko Ohnuma’s Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017)”; November 23, 5:30-7 pm, Convention Center-26B
Charles Hallisey
- Panelist: In Memoriam: Anne Monius; November 24, 7:30-9 pm, Convention Center-4
Amy M. Hollywood
- Panel Presider: “Bataille, Blackness, and the Tumultuous Sacred”; November 23, 1-3 pm, Convention Center-4
- Panel Respondent: “Locating Contemplation Beyond Traditions: Engagements with Art and Literature”; November 24, 1-3 pm, Convention Center-24B
- Panelist: History and Theology Roundtable; November 26, 8:30-10 am, Convention Center-24A
Karen King
- Panel Respondent: “Honoring the Scholarship of Karen L. King”; November 24, 9-11:30 am, Convention Center - 33A
Diane L. Moore
- Panel Presider: “Religious Literacy College-Wide Guidelines Project”; November 22, 5-7 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 500
Daniel McKanan
- Panelist for Book Round Table including his Eco-Alchemy (UC Press 2017); November 22, 7-8:30 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A
Stephanie Paulsell
- Book Panel Respondent: “Welcoming Religion around Virginia Woolf (Penn State University Press, 2019) by Stephanie Paulsell”; November 24, 3:30-5 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314
Matthew Potts
- Paper: “Christ, Identity, and Empire in Shusaku Endo’s Silence”; November 25, 3:30-5 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A
- Panel Presider: “Religion, War, and the Empire in Arts and Literature II: Europe and the U.S.”; November 25, 5:30-7 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A
Mayra Rivera
- Book Panel Respondent: “Migrants, Refugees, Metics, and Migratory Networks in Acts”; November 25, 9-11:30 am, Convention Center - 8
Michelle Sanchez
- Paper: “‘Worldview’ Christianity as Reoccupied Secularism: The Modern Legacy of Reformed Reactionaries”; November 25, 3:30-5 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400B
Todne Thomas
- Paper: “Black Evangelicalism and Racialized”; November 23, 3:30-5 pm, Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B
In Memoriam: Anne Monius; November 24, 7:30–9 pm, Convention Center-4
- This session is dedicated to the memory of Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Panelists will speak to different facets of Anne’s life and celebrate her impact as a friend, colleague, and teacher at both the University of Virginia and Harvard University. The session will also include an opportunity for members of the audience to share their memories of Anne.
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Panelists: Rebecca Manring, Indiana University; Gregory Clines, Trinity University; John Nemec, University of Virginia; Sophia Nasti, Harvard University; Elizabeth Mary Rohlman, University of Calgary; Charles Hallisey, Harvard University