3rd Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture
From
Philip Goff, an announcement about the upcoming 3rd Biennial Conference on
Religion and American Culture at IUPUI, June 6-9, 2013.
Third
Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture
Center
for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI
Indianapolis,
Indiana
June
6-9, 2013
We
are pleased to announce the Third Biennial Conference on Religion and American
Culture, to be held at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre Hotel, June 6
through June 9. The overarching themes of this third biennial conference
will be “thinking again about old topics” and “new developments.” Scholars
from multiple perspectives will serve on multidisciplinary panels. The
conference schedule is given below.
Like
the conferences in 2009 and 2011, the room will be set up in a circle with
audience members on risers around the central round table. This set-up promotes
more participation from the audience and deeper conversation among the
panelists and those surrounding them. The hotel is again conveniently located
in downtown Indianapolis among restaurants, museums, and public parks – all
very conducive to continuing over coffee and meals those conversations begun in
sessions.
Thanks
to a grant from Lilly Endowment, we have reserved a block of rooms at the Sheraton
Indianapolis City Centre Hotel at the special rate of $79 per night. Once those
rooms have sold out, rooms will be available at the going room rate, so please
be sure to reserve your room right away. The Sheraton is offering a special
self-parking rate of $10 per night, easily the best deal in town.
Early
registration rates are available until May 5. These early rates are $90 for
professionals and $50 for students. Registration after May 5 will be at the
onsite rate of $120 for professionals and $70 for students.
To
register for the conference and reserve your room, please go
to www.raac.iupui.edu. (Note: the special hotel rate of $79 will not
appear on the screen or on the automated response but will be confirmed by a
second email from the hotel.) That website also contains longer descriptions of
each session.
CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
Thursday,
June 6
6:00-8:00pm
Arrival and Registration
Opening Reception
Friday,
June 7
8:30-10:00 Fifty
Years of Non-Sectarian Study of Religion: Goals, Limitations, Expectations
Panelists:
Jon Butler (Yale University)
Patricia Killen (Gonzaga University)
John Schmalzbauer (Missouri State University)
10:30-12:00 Space
and Place
Panelists:
John
Corrigan (Florida State University)
Bret Carroll (California State University, Stanislaus)
Tracy Leavelle (Creighton University)
Elaine Pena (George Washington University)
2:00-4:00 Belonging
and Participation (Special Venue: Indiana War Memorial Auditorium)
Panelists:
Korie Edwards (Ohio State University)
Kathleen Garces-Foley (Marymount University, Virginia)
Marie Griffith (Washington University, St. Louis)
Edward Linenthal (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Saturday,
June 8
8:30-10:00 Religion
and Changing Technologies
Panelists:
Matthew
Hedstrom (University of Virginia)
William Romanowski (Calvin College)
Jonathan Walton (Harvard Divinity School)
10:30-12:00 Religion
in Social Media
Panelists:
Verity Jones
(Christian Theological Seminary)
Kathryn Reklis (Fordham University)
Scott Thumma (Hartford Seminary)
Jonathan Van Antwerpen (Social Science Research Council and The Immanent
Frame)
1:30-3:00 The
Bible in American Life: Preliminary Discussions of Analysis of the General
Social Survey
Panelists:
Art Farnsley
(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
Sylvester Johnson (Northwestern University)
Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame)
Valarie Ziegler (DePauw University)
3:30-5:15 The
Future of the Study of American Religion
Panelists:
Nancy
Ammerman (Boston University)
Kathryn Lofton (Yale University)
John McGreevy (University of Notre Dame)
David Yoo (University of California, Los Angeles)
5:30-8:00
Concluding reception
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