How can experts in the study of science and religion translate insights from their research in inviting, accessible, and accurate ways in order to invite wider conversations about the field among scholars, students, and the public? What are some of the best strategies for identifying and capturing broader interest in science and religion and where are some key locations for this work? These questions are the basis of this roundtable conversation featuring scholars dialoguing with museum professionals. Together, they will discuss strategies for engagement and current projects designed to expand and enhance dialogue about science and religion in classrooms and museums. This roundtable will highlight multiple audiences and paths for expanding conversations about science and religion: 1) in classrooms; 2) with other scholars; 3) among the wider public, especially in museum settings.
In-person November Annual Meeting 2025 Program Book
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The Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism will host an informal gathering to share memories and reflect on the career of Peter Gregory (1945- 2025), the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion and East Asian Studies at Smith College and eminent scholar of medieval Chinese Buddhism. A few designated speakers will be followed by “open microphone” for all wishing to pay tribute to Peter.
The Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) is a nationwide campus-supported network to increase the capacity of independent colleges and universities to support undergraduate students as they explore and discern their many callings in life, and as they reflect on questions of meaning, purpose, and identity. Since its launch in 2009, NetVUE has grown rapidly to include nearly 350 institutions. All SBL and AAR participants are invited to join us for this reception, whether or not their institutions are members of the network.
Stop by for a chance to learn more about NetVUE (including faculty development and grant opportunities), to connect with friends and colleagues with similar interests, and to enjoy one another’s company. NetVUE is administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) with support from member dues and the generosity of Lilly Endowment Inc.
Award-winning American composer Delvyn Case conducts the Deus Ex Musica Ensemble in a live performance of his dramatic new solo cantata based on Genesis 22. Daring to imagine alternative ending to this provacative story, this 25-minute piece explores the complex theological, narrative, and interpretive challenges of this infamous passage by highlighting how the thread of sacrificial violence tragically binds together Elohim, Abraham, and Isaac–and, through its historical legacy–all of us as well. Sponsored by the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, the performance will be followed by a panel discussion featuring an interfaith collection of scholars and clergy: Charisse Barron (Harvard University), Delvyn Case (Wheaton College, Massachusetts), Ruth Langer (Boston College), and Tzemah Yoreh (City Congregation in New York City). Additional information may be found at: https://www.delvyncase.com/binding
Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St (across from Boston Public Library)
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We welcome all our friends and colleagues attending this year's annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature to join us for a festive reception Saturday night!
The FTE Annual Alumni Reception is a gathering where alumni and current participants of FTE programs come together to celebrate, connect, and engage with one another.
Join the Theological Education between the Times project for a reception celebrating the 10 years of the grant's work and its participants and fellows! This reception will honor the project's previous book successes and celebrate the culminating edited volume, 'At This Time: Dialogues in Theological Education.' We will hear a few short reflections - and a special musical performance - from senior fellows. Friends and supporters of TEBT are invited to a free-flowing time with music, conviviality, and good food.
Please join the Boston College Theology Department and the Clough School of Theology and Ministry for a cocktail reception.
A year after my call last November to the AAR community to explore conditions of freedom and unfreedom in new ways, we are confronted with a deepening climate of erosion and erasure. From military dictatorships to university administrations that mow down departments and programs, an atmosphere of repercussion, inhumanity, and inscrutability prevails. The fragility and fickleness of these arrangements of life press us to keep asking what each of us can do, and to keep searching for possibilities. I turn to poets and storytellers, activists and political visionaries, who have discerned a practice of vigilance more sovereign and sustaining than the brute vigilantism of the state and other oppressive structures. What does it mean to be alert not only to threat but also to possibility—to be vigilant for justice, vigilant for the smallest acts of dignity, vigilant for freedom in the ordinary and the everyday? What kind of agency and orientation does an ethics of vigilance reveal, what hope does it trace, what does it offer us and what does it demand of us?