Conference Schedule

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All sessions will be held in the Werkmeister Reading Room of Dodd Hall unless otherwise noted.

Friday, March 23rd

5:00-6:00	Literary Portrayals of Israel Chair: Jason Leto Respondent: David Levenson Brooke Sherrard, Florida State University (Religion) “Violence in the Left Behind Series” Eric LaForest, Boston College (History) “Amos Oz and 1948: Religion, Memory, and Literature in Modern Israel”
6:30-8:00	Keynote Address William O'Neill, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley "The Violent Bear It Away": Religion, Rights and Reconciliation
8:00	Reception and Announcement of Best Paper Award

Saturday, March 24th

9:00-10:30	American Religious History Chair: Kathleen Hladky Respondent: Amanda Porterfield Jessica Carr, Florida State University (Religion) “‘The Exodus is not yet accomplished…’: Reform Jewish Arguments for the Civil-Rights Movement in the Race Relations Sabbath Messages, 1954-1970” Jason Leto, Florida State University (Religion) "The Political Implications of Outsider Identity among 18th Century Moravians” Brandi Denison, UNC Chapel Hill Religious Studies Department "Josephine and the Utes: Religion, Violence, and Identity on the Western Frontier"
10:45-11:45	Phenomenologies of Excess: Conceptions of Good and Evil Chair: Kate Temoney Respondent: Martin Kavka Christy Flanagan, Florida State University (Religion) “Feuerbach’s Religious Subjectivity: A Paradigm of Reciprocity” Carlos Manrique, University of Chicago Divinity School The Ambivalence and Violence of the ‘Calm Sunshine of the Mind’ (A Reading of Hume’s treatise The Natural History of Religion)”
11:45-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Religion and Media Chair: Brooke Sherrard Respondent: Curtis Evans Monica Fouché, Florida State University (History) “Under the Catholic Banner: Religion and Resistance in Spanish Newspapers in the Summer of 1808” Kathleen Hladky, Florida State University (Religion) “‘Modern Day Heroes of Faith’: Trinity Broadcasting Network as a Television Church” Shaun Horton, Florida State University Religion Department "A Brief History of Violence in Christian Video Games (From Noah's Ark to the Streets of New York)"
2:45-4:30	Asian Religion Chair: Jessica Carr Respondent: Kathleen Erndl Jessica Marion, Temple University (Religion) "Images of Islam in Hindi Film" Caleb Simmons, Florida State University (Religion) "Gender Conceptions within Hindutva" Diane Lillesand, University of Florida (Religion) “Gender Violence and the Law in Hindu India: The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity, and Some Proposed Solutions” Christopher Bell, University of Virginia (Religious Studies) “Demonic Gods and Bloodthirsty Warriors: The Vicious Defenders of Tibetan Buddhism”
4:45-5:45	Healing in Christian Antiquity Chair: Kevin Vaccarella Respondent: Nicole Kelley Mike Fisher, Florida State University (Religion) “The Athenian Temple of Ascleipius: Life, Death & Rebirth of a Cosmopolitan Healing Site” Brandon Wason, Emory University (Candler School of Theology) “Healing a Schism: The Samaritans in Luke-Acts”
8:00	Film Showing Showing of the film Jesus Camp
9:30	Reception

Sunday, March 25th

9:00-10:30

Religion and Healing Chair: Caleb Simmons Respondent: John Corrigan Monica Reed, Florida State University (Religion) "The Early Twentieth Century Medical Community's Response to Christian Science" William LeMaire, Villanova University (Theology & Religious Studies) “Forgiveness in the Polis: Seeking Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Spencer Dew, University of Chicago Divinity School “Realism, Reading, Revolution: Kathy Acker’s Goya”

10:45-12:30

Religion and War Chair: Tamara Marks Respondent: Aline Kalbian Robert Britt-Mills, Florida State University (Religion) “Stanley Hauerwas’s Christian Pacifism Versus the American Evangelical Justification of War” Shawntel Ensminger, Florida State University (Religion) “‘No Peace Other than the Dreadful Peace of Death’: Disarmament in Catholic Social Thought” Kevin Carnahan, Southern Methodist University (Religious Studies) “Why the Just War Tradition needs Reinhold Niebuhr” Kristen Tobey, University of Chicago Divinity School “‘Blood was already there’: Peace that Ruptures and Blood that Heals in the Plowshares Movement”

 

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