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Seminar: Faith, Film, and Philosophy Seminar
Gonzaga University’s Faith and Reason Institute is pleased to announce the annual Seminar on Faith, Film and Philosophy, entitled “Of Love & Friendship: The Films of Whit Stillman.” The expatriot director will be our special guest. He will give a public talk on Thursday evening (12 October 2017) and participate in a Q&A after a…
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CFP: AAR-SW Regional Conference 2018 (SWCRS)
CALL FOR PAPERS Interested participants should submit a paper proposal of no more than 500 words to the session chair of the unit for which they wish to present. Paper Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2017 Proposal Acceptance/Rejection Notifications: November 7, 2017 All accepted participants must register for the regional conference via the SWCRS website by…
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CFP: Tradition and Innovation in Bible Translation Conference
AAR-SW Friends, The International Linguistics Center and SIL International and the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics are pleased to announce this year’s Bible Translation conference in Dallas, TX. The CFP deadline is May 5, 2017, and the conference will be held on October 13-17, 2017. Please see the full CFP below for instructions of submitting…
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CFP: Religion and Politics in Early America
Call For Papers – Religion and Politics in Early America (Beginnings to 1820) St. Louis, March 1-4, 2018 Sponsored by: The Danforth Center on Religion and Politics The Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy The Society of Early Americanists St. Louis University Washington University in St. Louis Seeking Panel and Paper Proposals We seek proposals for…
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Cistercian and Monastic Studies Conference
AAR-SW Friends, Just a reminder that Western Michigan University will be hosting the Conference on Cistercian and Monastic Studies on May 11-14, 2017. The conference will be held concurrently with the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). All regional scholars are invited to attend. For registration information, please visit the conference website at: https://cistercianscholarship.wordpress.com/
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CFP: “Social Activism in American Religious Literature”
AAR-SW Friends, Dr. Andrew Ball has issued a Call For Panelists to join him on an MLA panel on Social Activism in American Religious Literature. Below is the full CFP. The American Religion and Literature Society invites proposals for our panel at the 2017 Midwest Modern Language Association convention, November 9-12, 2017 in Cincinnati, OH. Session title: “Social Activism…
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SWCRS Recap: TAK Student Papers
The 2017 Theta Alpha Kappa session SWCRS featured three excellent undergraduate presentations this year. An engaged audience heard Jaclyn T. Barber’s paper, “Towards a Universal Theocentrism: A Critical Analysis of Gordon Kaufman’s Theology” (TCU); Mary Kathryn Cook’s “Ezekiel Through a Native American Lens” (SEU); and Christopher Walker’s “Sarah and Abraham in Gerar: Revisiting the Moral…
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Conference: 17th Africa Conference (UT Austin)
AAR-SW Friends, The University of Texas at Austin would like to invite regional scholars to attend this year’s annual Africa Conference. Among the invited topics for presentation they have listed a number of religion themes and subjects. The theme of this years conference is “Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the African…
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2017 Colloquium: “Calvin and the early Reformation”
AAR-SW Friends, The Calvin Studies Society has just announced that their 2017 annual meeting will be held at Baylor University in Waco, TX. CSS and BU would like to invite regional scholars interested in Calvin and the Reformation to attend. There is also a CFP for graduate students. See below for the conference details. Conference…
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Newsflash: Pre-SWCRS message from the AAR-SW Regional Coordinator
Greetings, Southwest Region, from Dallas, where today it is a lovely sunny and 70s-degree day! We are in the last weeks of preparation for SWCRS and so I’m writing to encourage you, if you haven’t yet, to register for the March 10–13 meeting at the Marriott DFW where the overarching theme will be “Religion Matters.”…
