Harvard Divinity Faculty Presenting at 2022 AAR, SBL Annual Meetings

AAR and SBL annual meetings logo with photo of Denver skyline
Denver, Colorado, will host the 2022 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.

Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members and fellows will be in Denver, Colorado, in late November to present during the 2022 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.

The conference, which takes place November 19-22, 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.

Harvard Divinity School will host the Harvard University reception during this year’s conference. Faculty, students, staff, alumni, colleagues, and friends are invited to attend the reception, which will take place at Denver Union Station, on November 19, at 9 pm MT.

Also this year, as president of AAR, Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at HDS, will give the presidential address, “What Is the Role of the Study of Religion in Times of Catastrophe?”

Below is a list of HDS faculty members and fellows who will be presenting at the Annual Meetings (all times are Mountain Time Zone). For details on the many other Harvard University students, faculty, and affiliates presenting, and for the most current information on timing, location, and format of sessions, search the online event planner.

Giovanni Bazzana

  • Paper: “Paul among the Other Possessed: What Can We Say about Ancient Mediterranean Possession and the Case of the Pauline Groups?”; November 21, 9-11:30 am; Convention Center (CC) - 405

Ann D. Braude

  • Paper: “Spiritual Paths and Artistic Innovation”; November 21, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - 507

Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

  • Panelist: “Raimon Panikkar Symposium”; November 18, 3-7 pm; Hyatt Regency-Granite A

  • Panelist: “The Concept of Home in Comparative Theology and Theology Without Walls”; November 20,  9-11 am; Convention Center - Mile High 4D

  • Panel Respondent: “God’s Body: Hindu-Christian Comparative Theology”; November 21, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - 301

Benjamin Dunning

  • Book Review Panelist: “Review Panel of Jimmy Hoke’s Book, Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God?”; November 20, 4-6:30 pm; Hyatt Regency - Capitol 6

  • Book Review Panelist: “Review Panel of Meghan R. Henning, Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature (Yale University Press, 2021)”; November 21, 4-5:15 pm; Convention Center - 404

Ahmad Greene-Hayes

  • Panelist: “15th Anniversary Book Panel on Dr. Anthea Butler’s Women in the Church of God in Christ (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)”; November 20, 9-11 am; Convention Center - Mile High 4A

Janet Gyatso

  • Panel Respondent: “First session of ‘Rethinking the Conceptual Toolkit”; November 19, 3- 4:30 pm; Convention Center - 304

  • Panel Respondent: “Dreams in Tibetan Buddhism”; November 21, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Mile High 4E

Charles Hallisey

  • Panel Respondent: “Reconsidering Empathy in the Comparative Study of Religions”; November 19, 3-4:30 pm; Convention Center - 505

  • Panel Respondent: “Second session of ‘Rethinking the Conceptual Toolkit”; November 19, 5-6:30 pm; Convention Center - 304

Teddy Hickman-Maynard

  • Book Review Panel Presider: “The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research (2023)”; November 21, 9-11 am; Convention Center - Mile High 4E

Amy Hollywood

  • Book Review Respondent: “Book Panel: Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination”; University of Chicago Press, 2021; November 21, 9-11 am; Convention Center - Mile High 4B

  • Panelist: “Art Practice, Ritual Practice, and the Question of Spiritual Insight”; November 22, 8:30-10 am; Hyatt Regency - Capitol 3

Tracey Hucks

  • Panelist: “A Sorrowful Joy: Honoring and Remembering Dr. Albert J. Raboteau”; November 20, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Mile High 4B 

  • Panel Respondent: “Honoring the Scholarship, Sisterhood, and Scholastic Legacy of Dianne M. Stewart and Tracey E. Hucks”; November 21, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1

  • Panel Presider: “Making a Way Outta No Way: Celebrating Rachel E. Harding’s Scholarship and Activism”; November 21, 3-4:30 pm; Convention Center - 107

Terrence L. Johnson

  • Panel Presider: “Religion and Democracy”; November 21, 3-4:30 pm; Convention Center - Mile High 4D

Mark Jordan

  • Panel Respondent: “Celebrating and Challenging the Convulsions of, and Beyond, Queer and Trans Studies in Religion and Theology: Honoring the Work of Mark Jordan”; November 20, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Mile High 4D

Peter Machinist

  • Book Review Panelist: “Review of Dalit Rom-Shiloni’s Voices from the Ruins”; November 21, 9-11:30 am; Convention Center (CC) - Mile High 2B

Jacob K. Olupona

  • Panelist: “Roundtable on the Contribution of Afe Adogame to the Study of Religions in Africa”; November 21, 9-11 am; Embassy Suites - Crystal A

  • Panelist: “Honoring the Scholarship, Sisterhood, and Scholastic Legacy of Dianne M. Stewart and Tracey E. Hucks”; November 21, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1

Kimberley C. Patton

  • Panelist: “Moving Body as Foundational to the Proper Study of Religion: A Response to and Celebration of the Work of Sam Gill”; November 20, 12:30-2:30 pm; Convention Center - Mile High 4C

Stephanie Paulsell

  • Book Review Panelist: “Engaging The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century (Information Age Publishing, 2019)”; November 19; 12:30-2:30 pm; Hyatt Regency - Mineral B

  • Book Review Panelist: “Religion Around Walter Benjamin (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) by Brian Britt”; November 21, 5-6:30 pm; Embassy Suites - Aspen B

Annette Yoshiko Reed

  • Panel Presider: “Revisiting Late Antique Syria”; November 19, 9-11:30 am; Convention Center (CC) - 104

  • Paper Respondent: “SBL Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship”; November 19, 4-5:30 pm; Convention Center (CC)

  • Panelist: “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices”; November 21, 9-11:30 am; Embassy Suites (ES) - Cripple Creek 1

Mayra Rivera, AAR President

  • Presider for AAR Plenary Address by Valeria Luiselli: November 19, 11:15 am-12:15 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1

  • AAR Presidential Address: “What Is the Role of the Study of Religion in Times of Catastrophe?”; November 19, 7-8 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1: As the consequences of climate change become more evident around the world, the study of religion must wrestle with its implications, not just for the themes we address, but also for the approaches we use. This address is a reflection on the significance of climate change for our ways of knowing and an invitation to work together to transform our practice in response to the environmental devastation that shape our worlds.
  • Presider for AAR Plenary Address by Ramón Cruz: November 20, 11:15 am-12:15 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1
  • Presider for AAR Plenary Panel: “Environmental Justice in Times of Catastrophe”; November 21, 11:15 am-12:15 pm; Convention Center - Four Seasons 1

Michelle C. Sanchez

  • Panel Presider: “Political Theologies of Unruly Subjectivity”; November 19, 3-4:30 pm; Hyatt Regency - Mineral B

  • Panelist: “A Theology for the 21st Century?”; November 21, 5-6:30 pm; Embassy Suites - Crystal C

Teren Sevea

  • Paper: “What is (Southeast Asian) Islam?: Unlearning Peripheralization from Regional Islamic Materials”; November 19, 12:30- 2:30 pm; Hyatt Regency - Mineral C

  • Panelist: “Recent Books in the Study of Religion in Southeast Asia”; November 20, 3-4:30 pm; Convention Center - 304

Todne Thomas

  • Panelist: “Fetish and Fetishization in the Study of Religion”; November 19, 9-11:30 am; Convention Center (CC) - 102
     

*Please note the AAR/SBL Annual Meetings includes more than 1,000 academic sessions and workshops. A complete listing of all session information, including participant names, paper titles, and abstracts are available in the Online Program Book on the AAR website and on the SBL website. The keyword search feature will allow you to find the sessions you’re most interested in attending.

 

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