UT Religious Studies faculty and graduate students will be presenting at the AAR and SBL conferences in Denver, CO from November 19-22, 2022.
Check out our lineup below!
American Academy of Religion
Grad students – Religions in the Americas
Aixin Aydin – Gender-based violence as religious persecution in the US asylum system
Women and Religion Unit – A20-433
Theme: Reflection on Radical Praxis
Sunday, Nov 20 – 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Convention Center-111 (Street Level)
Drake Konow- Listen to the Sound of the Cherokee”: Religion, Land, and Performative Sovereignty in Dolly Parton’s Sha-Kon-O-Hey
Secularism and Secularity Unit – A21-232
Theme: Properties of the Secular: Occupied, Zoned, Surveilled, Meta
Monday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Hyatt Regency-Mineral F (Third Level)
Grad students – Religions in History
Harsha Gautam- To Discuss, Defend and Dissent: Locating the Agency of the Students in the Saṅgha
South Asian Religions Unit- A22-134
Theme: The Monastery in South Asia
Tuesday, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Convention Center-301 (Street Level)
Faculty:
Dr. Ashley Coleman Taylor- The Body as Contested Sites in Legacies of Puerto Rican Resistance
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit, Liberation Theologies Unit, and Women and Religion Unit- A20-122
Theme: Catástrofe, Esperanza, y Lucha: Puerto Rico a Cinco Años de María y el Plan Promesa (Catastrophe, Hope, and Struggle: Puerto Rico after Five Years Since Hurricane María and the Promesa Legislation)
Sunday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Convention Center-111 (Street Level)
Dr. Mallory Matsumoto- Baptismal Naming and (Re-)Building Indigenous Community in Early Colonial Guatemala
World Christianity Unit- A21-237
Theme: Gender and Social Reconstitution in World Christianity
Monday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Convention Center-Mile High 4F (Lower Level)
Dr. Oliver Freiberger (panelist) – Theme: Comparative Methods in Undergraduate Pedagogy: Transforming Teaching in Trying Times
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Saturday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Convention Center-Mile High 4D (Lower Level)
Dr. Chad Seales (responding)- Theme: Finding American Religion in Unexpected Places
North American Religions Unit- A21-126
Monday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Convention Center-Mile High 1B (Lower Level)
Dr. Jonathan Schofer (Presiding) – Theme: Reconsidering Genre in Religious Ethics
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit – A20-425
Sunday, Nov 20, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Hyatt Regency – Mineral B (Third Level)
Society of Biblical Literature
Grad students – Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean
Franz Gilbert Biantan – Rhetorical Limitations of Mockery and Slander in Irenaeus’ Against Heresies
Rhetoric and Early Christianity Section – S20-145
Sunday, Nov 20, 9:00am – 11:00am
Convention Centre – 703 (Street Level)
Caroline Crews – Messy, Maternal Martyrs: Contested Ideals in the Perpetua and Felicity Tradition
Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, Martyrs Section – S19-229
Saturday, Nov 19, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Convention Centre – 709 (Street Level)
Adeline Harrington and Jaimie Gunderson – Shaping Memory and Religious Authority at Tainaron’s ’Gateway to Hell’
Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World Section – S19-108
Saturday, Nov 19, 9:00am – 11:30am
Hyatt Regency – Agate B (Third Level)
Rikki Liu – The First and the Last: Scholarly and Popular Reception of the Thunder, Perfect Mind
Christian Apocrypha Section – S20-113
Sunday, Nov 20, 9:00am – 11:30am
Convention Centre – Mile High 3A (Lower Level)
Daniel Smith – A Palm Grove in Smyrna and the Roman Subjugation of ’Wild’ Judea
Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World Section – S19-108
Saturday, Nov 19, 9:00am – 11:30am
Hyatt Regency – Agate B (Third Level)
Daniel Smith – Bar-Jesus, Blindness, and Strategies for Legitimation in Acts 13:6-12
Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World Section – S20-123
Sunday, Nov 20, 9:00am-11:45am
Convention Centre – 404 (Street Level)
Dan Smith – (Respondent)
Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Section: Blindness – S21-301
Monday, Nov 21, 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Hyatt Regency – Capitol 7 (Fourth Level)
Nathan Leach – Ascetic Meal Practices and Discourses in Revelation
Meals in the Greco-Roman World Seminar: Meals in Matthew and in John’s Revelation – S19-317
Saturday, Nov 19, 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Convention Centre – 707 (Street Level)
Faculty:
Dr. Anthony Keddie (Presiding)
Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament Section – S22-136
Tuesday, Nov 22, 9:00am – 11:30am
Convention Centre – 103 (Street Level)
Dr. Anthony Keddie (Presiding)
Hellenistic Judaism: Slavery and Hellenistic Judaism – S20-219
Sunday, Nov 20, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Convention Centre – Mile High 1C (Lower Level)
Dr. Jonathan Schofer – Eating and Drinking, the World to Come, and the Righteous in This World: Food and Means in Seder Eliyahu Rabbah, Chapters 3-5
Midrash Section: Meals, Food, Drink, and Other Topics in Midrash – S20-135
Sunday, Nov 20, 9:00am – 10:45am
Convention Centre – 702 (Street Level)
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan (Respondent)
Utopian Studies Section: The Kingdom of God as Utopia – S19-333
Saturday, Nov 19, 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Hyatt Regency – Agate B (Third Level)
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan – The Book of Jonah, Non-Israelites, and the Limits of the Covenant
Book of the Twelve Prophets Section: Formation and Theology – S20-214
Sunday, Nov 20, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Convention Centre – 709 (Street Level)
