If you are attending this year's SBL/AAR event in Denver, please plan to visit the GTU Booth (#331) to say hello! We will be hosting two consecutive events on November 19 at the Denver Convention Center (Room 607):
Celebrating the GTU’s 60th Anniversary (6:00–7:00 pm): featuring a lightning round of short talks showcasing the range of GTU scholarship from:
Students: Hye Hyun Han and Leonard McMahon
Alums: Whitney Baumann and Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Faculty: Kate Barush and Sam Shonkoff.
GTU’s Alum Reception (7:00–9:00 pm): Our first in-person alum reception since 2019 will feature brief remarks from Uriah Kim, President; Jennifer W. Davidson, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Sephora Markson, Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Institutional Advancement; and this year's GTU Alum of the Year, David Batstone. Additionally, the 2022 Borsch-Rast Prize will be announced.
GTU Booth Event Schedule:
Dr. Christopher Hadley A Symphony of Distances Book Discussion – Sunday, November 20, 2:00-3:00 PM
Please also join us for this public anniversary celebration event:
Teaching Theology and Religion Journal: All, TTJR, M20-108 Teaching Theology & Religion Celebrates 25 Years, 25th Anniversary
Sunday, November 20, 9:00–10:30 AM; Convention Center-608 (Street Level)
Student travel grants are supporting GTU students who will be attending the 2022 SBL/AAR event in Denver, CO. The GTU is proud to share this year's travel grant recipients and their presentation information:
Hye Hyun Han: A20-108 Body and Religion Unit, Somatic Spirituality for those Traumatized by Human Objectification: Utilizing Authentic Movement as a Spiritual Practice
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 am–11:00 pm; Convention Center-301 (Street Level)
Matthew Hartman: A20-113 Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, The Rise of Climate Nationalism: Media, Migration, and New Religious Formations on the Right
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 am–12:00 pm; Hyatt Regency-Mineral B (Third Level)
Leah Macinskas-Le: S20-305 Biblical Law; Theme: Legal Terminology and Halakhah, Washing Cups and Moving Boundary Stones: Torah Observance, Sectarian Teachers, and Salvation
Sunday, Novemebr 20, 4:00–6:30 pm; Room: 708 (Street Level) - Convention Center (CC)
Emily Pothast: S19-105 Apocalypse Now: Apocalyptic Reception and Impact Throughout History; Theme: Session 1, The Poetics of Apocalyptic Violence
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:30 am; Hyatt Regency(HR)-Centennial C (Third Level)
Victoria Price: M18-103 Dharma Academy of North America(DANAM), Dharmic Digital Pedagogy: Bringing Yogic Inclusivity to Online Courses
Friday, November 18, 9:00–10:45 am; Hyatt Regency, Capitol 1 (Fourth Level)
Saturday, November 19, 3:30–4:30 PM; Sheraton Downtown-Governor’s Square 17 (Plaza Tower - Concourse Level - 1 level below Lobby)
Bohanec, Cogen: Alum, Graduate Theological Union, M19-106 Dharma Academy of North American (DANAM): Spirituality and Sustainability: Indic Responses, A Dialogical Encounter Between Christian Ecotheological Ethics and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Theology
Saturday, 11:00 AM–12:45 PM; Hyatt Regency-Capitol 5 (Fourth Level)
Bruntz, Courtney: Alum, Southeast Community College, A19-137 Space, Place and Religion Unit, Ecologies of Ritual and Trauma (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:00 AM (In person)
Cattoi, Thomas: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A19-112 Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit; Theme: 'Cosmopolitan Ontological Ecosystems': Interrogations of the Inner, Outer, and Under, Neo-Gnostics Underground: Iconographies of Inner Transformation in Damanhur's Subterranean Temples in Northern Italy
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:00 AM; Convention Center- 506 (Street Level)
Cheah, Joseph: Alum, University of Saint Joseph, A21-322 Religion, Sport, and Play Unit; Theme: Contemplating Religion: Sports, Exercise and Navigating Life, Cultural Pursuits and Religion: The Dao of Karate-do
Monday, November 21, 3:00–4:30 PM (In person)
Choi, Peter: Faculty, Graduate Theogical Union, A22-120 Evangelical Studies Unit; Theme: Evangelicals and Politics (Presiding)
Tuesday, November 22, 9:00–11:00 AM; Convention Center-502 (Street Level)
Choi, Peter: Faculty, Graduate Theogical Union, A19-115 Evangelical Studies Unit; Theme: Evangelicalism and Environmental Catastrophe, Business Meeting (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:00 AM Hyatt Regency-Granite C (Third Level)
Coogan, Jeremiah: Faculty, Jesuit School of Theology, S19-203 Ancient Eduaction: Social, Intellectual, and material Contexts; Theme: Book Review Session: Coogan, Jeremiah, Eusebius the Evangelist (Respondent)
Saturday, November 19, 1:00–2:45 PM; Room: 106(Street Level)-Convention Center(CC)
Coogan, Jeremiah: Faculty, Jesuit School of Theology, S20-204 Ancient Education: Social, Intellectual, and Material contexts; Theme: material Aspects of Religious Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 1:00–3:30 PM; Room: 103(Street Level)-Convention Center(CC)
Coogan, Jeremiah: Faculty, Jesuit School of Theology, S21-141 Redescribing Christian Origins; Theme: Redescribing Historiography: Legacies and Possibilities, Lists, Norms and Canons: Rethinking the Historiography and Lexicography of κανών
Monday, November 21, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM; Room: Mile High 3B(Lower Level)-Convention Center(CC)
Danner, Kerry: Alum, Georgetown University, A19-125 Psychology, Culture and Religion Unit; Theme: Climate Catastrophe, Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Psychological and Religious Perspectives, The Need for Resistance not Resilience: Courage, Hope &Climate Catastrophe
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:00 AM; Convention Center- 109(Street Level)
Danner, Kerry: Alum, Georgetown University, A20-400 Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee & Class, Religion, and Theology Unit; Theme: Pursuing Solidarity with Contingent Faculty Beyond the Pandemic (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 5:00–6:30 PM; Convention Center-502(Street Level)
Dhala, Mahjabeen: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, P19-201 Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: Faith, Climate and Justice (Panelist)
Saturday, 1:00–3:00 PM; Sheraton Downtown-Terrace (I.M. Pei Tower - Terrace Level - 1 level below Lobby)
Dhala, Mahjabeen: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A21-120 Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit; Theme: Advancing Interreligious Studies: An Interactive Workshop, Transformative Interfaith Engagement: Centering Minority Perspectives
Monday, November 21, 9:00–11 AM; Convention Center-601 (Street Level)
Dhala, Mahjabeen: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A21-145 Women's Caucus; Theme: Women's Caucus Business Meeting (Panelist)
Monday, November 21, 11:15–12:15 PM; Convention Center-112 (Street Level)
Erwin, Philip: Alum, Occidental College, S21-234 Paul and Politics; Theme: Open Call, Justification by Faith and the unrepetant American Political Conscience
Monday November 21, 1:00–3:30 PM; Room: Summer 26(Fourth Level)-HR
Esterson, Rebecca K: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, S19-148 Use, Influence, and Impact of the Bible; Theme: Literary Reception (Presiding)
Saturday November 19, 9:00–11:30 AM Room: Summit 26 (Fourth Level) - Hyatt Regency (HR)
Fisher, Roy: Alum, Loyola Marymount University, A20-217 History of Christianity University; Theme: Martyrdon Rhetoric in Christian History: Then and Now (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 12:30–2:30 PM (In Person)
Fisher, Roy: Alum, Loyola Marymount University, Business Meeting (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 12:30–2:30 PM (In Person)
Fisher, Roy: Alum, Loyola Marymount University, A21-418 Japanese Religions Unit and hagiography Society; Theme: Holy Death, People and Places: Reincarnation, Ressurection, Martyrdom, and the Ambiguity of Death, Holy Martyrs in 2 Maccabees and Matthew's Jesus
Monday, November 21, 6:00–6:30 PM
Flesher, LeAnn Snow: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union/Berkeley School of Theology, S20-110 Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma/Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible/Paul and Politics; Theme: The Traumatic Impact of White Supremacy (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 9:00–11:30 AM; Room: 103(Street Level)-Convention Center(CC)
Gonzalez Maldonado, Michelle: Alum, University of Scranton, A18-300 American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee; Theme: Committee Meeting (Panelist)
Friday, November 18, 3:00–5:00 PM (In Person)
Grizzell, Aaron: Student, Graduate Theological Union, A19-426 Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Black Religious Premordium
Saturday, November 19, 5:00–6:30 PM; Embassy Suites-Aspen B (Third Level)
Guerra, Lauren Frances: Alum, Loyola Marymount University, A19-118 Latina/o Religion, Culture and Religion Unit: Theme: Business Meeting (Presiding)
9:00–11:00 AM
Han, Hye Hyun: Student, Graduate Theological Union, A20-108 Body and Religion Unit, Somatic Spirituality for those Traumatized by Human Objectification: Utilizing Authentic Movement as a Spiritual Practice
Sunday, November 20, 9:00–11:00 AM; Convention Center-301 (Street Level)
Hartman, Matthew: Student, Graduate Theological Union, A20-113 Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, The Rise of Climate Nationalism: Media, Migration, and New Religious Formations on the Right
Sunday, November 20, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM; Hyatt Regency-Mineral B (Third Level)
Homrighausen, Jonathan: Alum, Duke University, A19-303 Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit; Theme: Ruins in Arts and Literature, Lettering in the Ruins: Caligraphy on Decay and Inspired by Death in the Lettering Arts of Martin Wenham, Susan Hufton, and Hazel Dolby
Saturday, November 19, 3:00–4:30 PM (In Person)
Homrighausen, Jonathan: Alum, Duke University, P21-435 Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts; Theme: Book Review Panel on Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design (SBL Press, 2021), by Amanda Dillon (Presider & Responder)
Monday, November 21, 5:00–6:30 PM
Hunt, Mary E: Alum, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, A19-145 Women's Caucus; Theme: How to Be a Good Session Chair (Panelist)
Saturday, November 19, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM (In Person)
Johnstone Largen, Kristin: Alum, Wartburg Theological Seminary, A19-427 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Region and Culture Unit; Theme: Ninetieth Anniversary of the Socialist Decision (Wipf & Stock, 2012) (Reviewer)
Saturday, November 19, 5:00–6:30 PM (In Person)
Johnstone Largen, Kristin: Alum, Wartburg Theological Seminary, A20-230 Shleiermacher Unit, Theology and Religious Reflection Unit, and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion and Culture Unit; Theme: Exploring Theological Genres (Reviewer)
Sunday, November 20, 12:30–2:30 PM (In Person)
Johnstone Largen, Kristin: Alum, Wartburg Theological Seminary, A20-330 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion and Culture Unit; Theme: Book Panel: Paul Tillich and Religious Socialism: Towards a Kingdom of Peace and Justice( Lexington Books, 2021) by Kirk R. McGregor (Reviewer)
Sunday, November 20, 3:00–4:30 PM
Kuo, Henry: Alum, Greensboro College, A22-123 Reformed Theology and History Unit; Theme: Reflecting on the Belhar Confession After 40 Years, Doing the Truth: Belhar's Next step
Tuesday, November 22, 9:00–11:00 AM Convention Center-108 (Street Level)
MacDougall, Scott: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union/CDSP, A20-333 New Program Unit: Anglican Studies Seminar; Theme: 2022 Meeting of the Anglican Studies Seminar, Part 1, Presiding
Sunday, November 20, 3:00–4:30 PM
MacDougall, Scott: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union/CDSP, A20-435 Anglican Studies Seminar; Theme: 2022 Meeting of the Anglican Studies Seminar, Part 2, Business Meeting (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 5:00–6:30 PM (In Person)
Macinskas-Le, Leah: Student, Graduate Theological Union, S20-305 Biblical Law; Theme: Legal Terminology and Halakhah, Washing Cups and Moving Boundary Stones: Torah Observance, Sectarian Teachers, and Salvation
Sunday, Novemebr 20, 4:00–6:30 PM; Room: 708 (Street Level) - Convention Center (CC)
Marchal, Joseph: Alum, Ball State University, S19-141 Pseudepigrapha/Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship; Theme: Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship (Panelist)
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:30 AM; Room: 708 (Streel Level)-Convention Center (CC)
Marchal, Joseph: Alum, Ball State University, S19-152 LGBTIQ Scholars and Scholarship Committee; Theme LGBTIQ Colleauges Creatings Connections (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM; Room 612 (Street Level)-Convention Center
Marchal, Joseph: Alum, Ball State University, S20-110 Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma/Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible/Paul and Politics; Theme: The Traumatic Impact of White Supremacy, Cut to the Phillipian Feeling: Other Apostles and Affects in the Insidous trauma of Kyriarchy
Sunday, Novemeber 20, 9:00–11:30 AM; Room: 103 (Street Level)-CC
McMahon, Leonard: Student, Graduate Theological Union, A19-210 Christian Spirituality Unit and Contemplative Studies Unit, Engaging The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century (Responding to panel)
Saturday, November 19, 12:30–2:30 PM; Hyatt Regency-Mineral B (Third Level)
Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia: Faculty, California Lutheran University, A20-130 Beyond Capitalism: Four Constructive Proposals toward Ecological, Equitable, Democratic Economic Life
Sunday, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM; Hyatt Regency-Granite B (Third Level)
Nati, James: Faculty, Jesuit School of Theology/GTU, S19-311 SBL Deuteronomistic History Section; Theme: Uses and Abuses of Stones, Tablets, and Scroll, Scripture in the Scrolls: Representation and Presentification in the Qumran Pesharim
Saturday, November 19, 4:00–6:30 PM Convention Center (CC) - 705 (Street Level)
Payne, Richard K: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A20-205 Buddhism in the West Unit and Buddhist Critical Constructive Reflection Unit; Theme: Secularizing Buddhism (Panelist)
Sunday, November 20, 12:30–2:30 PM; Hyatt Regency-Mineral A (Third Level)
Peña, Elizabeth: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, P20-340a Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS); Theme: Recent Authors on Religion & the Arts (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 4:00–6:30 PM; Sheraton Downtown (SD) - Governor’s Square 11 (Plaza Tower - Concourse Level)
Peters, Ted: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, P19-201 Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: Faith, Climate and Justice (Panelist)
Saturday, 1:00–3:00 PM; Sheraton Downtown-Terrace (I.M. Pei Tower - Terrace Level - 1 level below Lobby)
Pothast, Emily: Student, Graduate Theological Union, S19-105 Apocalypse Now: Apocalyptic Reception and Impact Throughout History; Theme: Session 1, The Poetics of Apocalyptic Violence
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:30 AM; Hyatt Regency(HR)-Centennial C (Third Level)
Price, Victoria: Student, Graduate Theological Union, M18-103 Dharma Academy of North America(DANAM), Dharmic Digital Pedagogy: Bringing Yogic Inclusivity to Online Courses
Friday, November 18, 9:00–10:45 AM; Hyatt Regency, Capitol 1 (Fourth Level)
Roland, Carla: Alum, General Theological Seminary, A20-333 New Program Unit: Anglican Studies Seminar; Theme: 2022 Meeting of the Anglican Studies Seminar, Part 1, Historical Antecents of the Anglican Church in Mexico and the Proposed Use of the Mozarabic Rite
Sunday, November 20, 3:00–4:30 PM (In Person)
Scheper Hughes, Jennifer: Alum, University of California, Riverside, A19-307 Catholic Studies Unit; Theme: Book Panel: Ekklesia of the Dead: The Theopolitics of Churchstateness in the Americas (Panelist)
Saturday, November 19, 3:00–4:30 PM (In Person)
Schiefelbein-Guerrero, Kyle: Alum, Graduate Theological Union, A19-211 Christian Systematic Theology Unit: Disability, Hope, and Justice (Presiding)
Saturday, 12:30–2:30 PM; Convention Center-401 (Street Level)
Sherma, Rita: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, M18-205 Theology Without Walls; Theme: Dualisms and Nondualisms (Presiding)
Friday, November 18, 1:00–3:30 PM; Sheraton DowntownDirector's Row E (Lobby Level)
Sherma, Rita: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, M18-301 Dharma Academy of North America(DAMAM), Seeking Epistemic Justice: The Move Towards Critical Indigenous Epistemologies
Friday, November 18, 4:00–5:45 PM; Hyatt Regency, capitol 1 (Fourth Level)
Sherma, Rita: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, M19-106 Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM); Theme: Spirituality and Sustainability: Indic Responses (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 11:00 AM–12:45 PM; Hyatt Regency-Capitol 5 (Fourth Level)
Shonkoff, Sam: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, P19-201 Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: Faith, Climate and Justice (Panelist)
Saturday, 1:00–3:00 PM; Sheraton Downtown-Terrace (I.M. Pei Tower - Terrace Level - 1 level below Lobby)
Shonkoff, Sam: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A20-131 Religion and Memory Unit and Study of Religion Unit; Theme: Yerushalmi's Zakhor(University of Washington Press, 1982) at 40: Reconsidering Jewish Memory in Theory and Practice (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 9:00–11AM; Hyatt Regency-Mineral C (Third Level)
Silverman, Emily: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A21-145 Women's Caucus; Theme: Women's Caucus Business Meeting (Panelist)
Sunday, November 20, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM; Convention Center-112 (Street Level)
Snow, Jenniffer: Alum, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, A20-435 Anglican Studies Seminar; Theme: 2022 Meeting of the Anglican Studies Seminar, Part 2 (Responder)
Sunday, November 20, 5:00–6:30 PM (In Person)
Sorgen, Jeremy: Alum, University of California, Berkeley, A20-402 Presidential Theme-Religion and Catasrophe(Public Understanding of Religion Committee); Theme: Public Scholarship on Religion and Environmental Catastrophe (Panelist)
Sunday, November 20, 5:00–6:30 PM (In Person)
Sorgen, Jeremy: Alum, University of California, Berkeley, A21-117 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit and International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture; Theme: Teaching Climate 'Crisis' in the 21st Century (Presiding)
Monday, November 21, 9:00–11:00 AM
Sorgen, Jeremy: Alum, University of California, Berkeley, A21-218 Ethics Unit; Theme: Ethnography and Religious Ethics, Lessons of the Ethnographic Turn for Religious Ethics
Monday, November 21, 12:30–2:30 PM
Stivers, Laura: Alum, Dominican University of California, A19-326 Transformative Schloarship and Pedagogy Unit, Women and Religion Unit, Woman's Caucus, Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit; Theme: Teaching in Response to Changing Laws on Abortion (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 3:00–4:30 PM (In Person)
Stivers, Laura: Alum, Dominican University of California, A20-329 Teaching Religion Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit; Theme: Business Meeting (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 3:00–4:30 PM
Stivers, Laura: Alum, Dominican University of California,A22-103 Ethics Unit; Theme: Gentrification and Religious Ethics, Freedom to Flourish: Housing as a Right Not a Commodity
Tuesday, November 22, 8:30–10:00AM (In Person)
Torgerson, Laura Jean: Faculty, Graduate Theology Union, S21-320 Latino/a and Latin American Biblical Interpretation; Theme: Critical Readings in Critical Times: The Bible, Catastrophe, and Latin(e) Americas, “Esta situación”: Relevance and Reticence in Times of Crisis
Monday, November 21, 4:00–6:30 PM; Room: Agate B (Third Level) - Hyatt Regency (HR)
Torgerson, Laura Jean: Faculty, Graduate Theology Union, S22-138 Use, Influence, and Impact of the Bible; Theme: Directions in Biblical Reception, Framing Bible Stories: Which Contexts Matter and How?
Tuesday, November 22, 9:00–11:30 AM; Room: Centennial F (Third Level) - Hyatt Regency (HR)
Vendova, Dessislava: Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, A19-318 Men, Masculinities, and Religious Unit; Theme: Divine and Human Selves: Masculine Renunciation, Attachment, and Transformation, Unequalled Manliness: Bodily Representations of the Bodhisattva Siddhartha as a Renuciant in Early Buddhist Texts and Art
Saturday, November 19, 3:00–4:30 PM; Hyatt Regency, Capitol 3 (Fourth Level)
Veninga, Jennifer: Alum, Saint Edward's University, A19-316 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit; Theme: Kierkegaard on Preferential Attachments and Love for Strangers and Enemies (Presiding)
Saturday, November 19, 3:00–4:30 PM (In Person)
Veninga, Jennifer: Alum, Saint Edward's University, A20-311 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit; Theme: Kierkegaard and the Press, Then and Now, Business Meeting (Presiding)
Sunday, November 20, 3:00–4:30 PM
Wesley, J. Wildman: Alum, Boston University, A19-109 Cognitive Science of Religion Unit; Theme: Book panel on Edward Slingerland's book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (Little, Brown & Co, 2021) (Panelist)
Saturday, November 19, 9:00–11:00 AM (In person)
Wesley, J. Wildman: Alum, Boston University, A20-114 Comparative Theology Unit and Theology Without Walls; Theme: The Concept of Home in Comparative Theology and Theology Without Walls (Panelist)
Sunday, November 20, 9:00–11:00 AM
