HDS Faculty to Showcase Expertise at 2025 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Session Information:

• Panelist: “Arts of Interpretation"
  • Friday, November 21, 1 pm to 4 pm, Tozzer Room 203 (21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138)
• Panel Respondent: “Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit”
  • Saturday, November 22, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Fairfax A Sheraton

Parkman Professor of Divinity; Professor of Comparative Theology

Session Information:

• Recipient and Keynote Speaker: “Annual DANAM Book Award and Keynote Address”
  • Friday, November 21, 5:30 pm to 7 pm, Maverick A Hilton Back Bay
• Roundtable Presider: “God at Play: Lila in Hindu and Christian Traditions edited by Daniel Soars”
  • Saturday, November 22, 9 am to 10:30 am, Ballroom C Hynes Convention Center
• Panelist: “Poetics of Comparison. A Roundtable in Honor of Francis Clooney”
  • Monday, November 24, 9 am to 11 am, Independence East Sheraton

Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies

Session Information:

• Book Panel Respondent: “Author-Meets-Respondents Session for Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (University of Chicago Press, 2025)"
  • Sunday, November 23, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 206

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

Session Information:

• Panelist: “Celebrating the 90th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”
  • Sunday, November 23, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Back Bay B Sheraton
• Paper: “Spotting Dendrel as a Way of Freedom”; Panel Presider: “Tibetan Interdependence, or Dendrel, as a Way of Freedom”
  • Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 207

Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies

Session Information

• Panelist: Love, Risk, and an Uncertain Future: Fannie Bialek’s Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry
  • Sunday, November 23, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 105
• Book Panelist: “Mysticism, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Debating Simon Critchley’s Mysticism (2024)”
  • Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Tufts-Marriott Copley Place

Assistant Professor of Religion and Ecology

Session Information

• Paper: “The Fungibility of Black Ecologies: Energy and Extraction”
  • Saturday, November 22, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Dalton-Sheraton
• Panelist: “Black Religion, Death, and the Afterlives of Memory”
  • Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 312

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies; Suzanne Young Murray Professor (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)

Session Information

• Book Panelist: “Author-Meets-Critics: Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation (New York University Press, 2022)”
  • Sunday, November 23, 9 am to 11 am, Boylston Marriott Copley Place

Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies; Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS); Director of Religion and Public Life

Session Information:

• Panelist: “Freedom and Flourishing in Fraught Times”
  • Sunday, November 23, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A

Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Session Information:

• Panelist: “Facing Threats to Democracy: Lessons from Pragmatism”
  • Saturday, November 22, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 206

Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies

Session Information:

• Book Panel Respondent: “Book Review Panel: Jon D. Levenson, Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath (Eisenbrauns 2024)”
  • Sunday, November 23, 9 am to 11:30 am, Hynes Convention Center 301
• Book Panelist: “In God’s Presence: A Jewish Theology for Jews and Christians”
  • Sunday, November 23, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Essex South, Westin Copley Place

Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies; Professor of African Religious Traditions; Chair, African and African American Studies (FAS)

Session Information:

• Roundtable Panelist: “Augustine the African: A Roundtable Discussion”
  • Sunday, November 23, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 209
• Panel Respondent: “Indigenous Hermeneutics in the Work of Prof. Jacob K. Olupona and Beyond”
  • Monday, November 24, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Republic A-Sheraton

Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion

Session Information:

• Panel Respondent: “The Depths of Divine Reflexivity: Kimberley C. Patton’s Contributions to the Study of Comparative Religion”
  • Monday, November 24, 9 am to 11 am, Hynes Convention Center 206

Professor of Theology

Session Information:

• Panel Respondent: “Political Freedom from a Reformed Perspective”
  • Saturday, November 22, 9 am to 11 am, Liberty C-Sheraton
• Panelist: “Normative and Descriptive Modes of Inquiry: Can they Relate?”
  • Saturday, November 22, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Back Bay B-Sheraton

Professor of Early Christian Thought; Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions

Session Information:

• Panel Presider: “Experiments with Form and Genre”
  • Monday, November 24, 4 pm to 6:30 pm, Independence West-Sheraton

Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies

Session Information:

• Book Panelist: “Christopher D. Tirres, Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas (Fordham University Press, 2025)”
  • Saturday, November 22, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Vermont-Marriott Copley Place