Harvard Divinity Faculty Present at 2023 AAR, SBL Annual Meetings

San Antonio, Texas, will host the 2021 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.
The American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings is the largest event of the year in the fields of religious studies and theology.

Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members and fellows were in San Antonio, Texas, in late November to present during the 2023 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.

The conference, which took place November 18-21, 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 hosted the Harvard University reception during this year’s conference. Faculty, students, staff, alumni, colleagues, and friends were invited to attend the reception, which took place at The Espee.

Below is a list of HDS faculty members and fellows who presented at the Annual Meetings. For details on the many other Harvard University students, faculty, and affiliates who presented, search the online event planner.

Giovanni Bazzana

  • Book Panel Presider: “Showcasing Contributions to the Forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Q"

Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

  • Panel Respondent: “Christianity Through Hindu Categories”
  • Panel Respondent: “Catholicism in South Asia”

Mohsen Goudarzi

  • Paper: “Alliance, Murder, and Retaliation: Intertextuality between al-Māʾidah and the Constitution of Medina”
  • Paper: “Twilight of the Cults: Ancient Worship, Its Discontents, and Religious Polemic in the Qur’anic Milieu”

Janet Gyatso

  • Panelist: “Practices for Transforming the Real: Language, Imagination, and Scholarly Modes of Engagement”  

Charles Hallisey

  • Panelist: “Practices for Transforming the Real: Language, Imagination, and Scholarly Modes of Engagement”

Teddy Hickman-Maynard

  • Panel Presider: “Theology and Ethnography Workshop: The Work of Our Hands”

Kimberley C. Patton

  • Roundtable: “The Depths of Divine Reflexivity: Kimberley C. Patton’s Contributions to the Study of Comparative Religion”
  • Panelist: “A Roundtable on Birthing the Maternal Turn in Religious Studies: Experiences in Studying, Teaching, Researching, and Publishing”

Annette Yoshiko Reed

  • Book Panel: “Twenty Year Retrospective on The Ways that Never Parted (ed. Annette Yoshiko Reed and Adam Becker)"
  • Panelist: “Tribute to E.P. Sanders: E.P. Sanders and His Scholarship”

*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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