Stanford University Press Theme: New Directions in Protestant Social Ethics Saturday - 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Hilton-Grand Salon D (Level 2) Saturday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM A21-200 Student Lounge Roundtable Theme: Conquering Qualifying Exams Saturday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Hyatt-Hanover A (Exhibit Level) Panelists: Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM M21-200 Theology Without Walls Group Theme: Sources and Resources for Transreligious Theology Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Sheraton-Georgia 3 (Level 1) Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM A21-201 Academic Relations Committee and Contingent Faculty Task Force
Hilton-201 (Level 2) Panelists: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Pacific School of Religion Jacob Lau, University of California, Los Angeles Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona Justin Tanis, Graduate Theological Union Erin Swenson, Atlanta, GA A21-307 Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Elaine Padilla, New York Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Race, Ferguson, and the Future of American Democracy Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM National Center for Civil and Human Rights, 100 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW Panelists: Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University Daisy L. Machado, Union Theological Seminary Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Omid Safi, Duke University Santiago H. Slabodsky, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont School of Theology A21-308 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Richard M. Carp, St. Mary's College of California, Presiding Theme: Binding Practices: Relational Connection in Visual and Performing Art Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM Hilton-310 (Level 3) Cia Sautter, College of St. Scholastica Smart Girls Are Beautiful: The Researcher as Performer Christina Carnes Ananias, Charleston Southern University Picasso’s Visual Irony: The Nude and African Primitivism as Theological Critique in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Anne-Marie Korte, Utrecht University
Reframing Authority: Buddhist Blogging and the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute Lara K. Schubert, Claremont Graduate University Restraint Over Freedom: Empowerment of Cambodian Buddhist Donji (Nuns) and Female Christian Pastors David Brian Esch, Florida International Univerity The World's First Transgender Mosque: Javanese, Gendered, and Religious Embodiments A22-211 African Diaspora Religions Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Native Traditions in the Americas Group Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College, Presiding Theme: Decolonization through Therapeutic and Culinary Practices Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference Level) Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University of California, Santa Barbara Healing as Liberation: Native American and Tibetan Decolonization Andrea Smith, University of California, Irvine Indigenity, Gender, and Anti-Blackness: Decolonizing Decolonization through Spiritual Healing and Transformation Scott Alves Barton, New York University Race, Faith, and Cake: Foodways and a Festa de Divino Espírito Santo Responding: Kathleen J. Martin, California Polytechnic State University A22-212 African Religions Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Dianna Bell, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Violence against Women in Africa: Politics, War, and Religion Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Marriott-A705 (Atrium Level) Laura Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute
A22-224 Japanese Religions Group Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University, Presiding Theme: Selling Spirituality, Buying Buddhism, Commercializing Kami, Marketing Merit, Delivering Doctrine: Economic Aspects of Religious Traditions in Japan Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Marriott-International 6 (International Level) Elisheva Perelman, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Pawns of Immortality: The Consequences of Soteriological Care in Japan’s Modern Tuberculosis Epidemic Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College Selling Doctrine: Buddhist Women's Associations and the Production of Religious Literature for Women (Fujin Kyōke) in Modern Japan Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara Creative Religiosity: Religious Performances and Religious Marketing in Edo Period Popular Religion Matthew Mitchell, Duke University Skewering Fortune: Temple Fundraising Lotteries in Early Modern Japan, with a Focus on Zenkōji’s Daihongan Convent Responding: Stephen G. Covell, Western Michigan University A22-225 Middle Eastern Christianity Group Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Middle Eastern Christianity and Islam: Areas for Dialogue? Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Hilton-Grand Salon B (Level 2) Melanie Trexler, Valparaiso University Educating the Americaines: Arab Baptist–Muslim Dialogue in Lebanon Joshua Mugler, Georgetown University How the Churches of Classical Baghdad Were Built Andrew M. Sharp, University of Virginia