Friday, March 28, 2014

12:00 - 1:00 PM: Registration, Mead Hall

1:00 - 5:00 PM: Graduate Student Panel, Mead Hall

Karen Bray, “Becoming Feces: New Materialism and the Matter of Race, Gender, and Animality”

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, “Queer(y)ing Bodily Materiality: Toward an “intra-active” ontology of becoming”

Elizabeth Freese, “Enslaved by ‘Freedom’: Exploring the Sexed, Political-Economic Ontology of Exodus and its Implications for American Justice”

Terra Rowe, “The Possibility of Grace and Intra-action”

Wade Mitchell, “Nothing but the Blood: Redemptive Images in Neurotheology”

Kwang Yu Lee, “A Theoretical Introduction to Ecophsychology”

Beatrice Marovich, “Commonalities: Theology, Evolutionary Theory & Creaturely Bodies”

Bo Eberle, “Beyond Epistemic Pluralism and Representationist Religion: An Agential Realist Critique”

Jacob Erickson, “Theophanic Materiality”

Respondents:  Lily Oster, Hyun Hui Kim, Matt Riley

5:00 - 5:30 PM: Registration continues, Mead Hall

5:00 - 7:00 PM: Welcome Reception, Mead Hall

7:00 - 9:00 PM: Light Dinner for TTC Presenters and Respondents, including Graduate Student Presenters and Respondents, Seminary Hall Atrium

 

Saturday, March 29, 2014

8:30 - 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast and Registration, Seminary Hall

9:00 - 9:45 AM: Introductions and Welcome, Seminary Hall

9:45 - 11:00 AM: Panel 1, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Karen Barad, “Deep Calls Unto Deep: Queer Inhumanism and Matters of Justice-to-Come”
Respondents:  Mayra Rivera-Rivera, Clayton Crockett

11:00 - 11:15 AM: Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM: Panel 2, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Mary Jane Rubenstein, “On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters: The Matter with Pantheism”
Respondent: Dan Miller

12:15 - 1:30 PM:  Lunch (box lunches available for purchase)

1:30 - 2:30 PM: Panel 3, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Manuel A. Vasquez, “Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and the Cosmopolitics of Religion”
Respondent: Allan Dawson

2:30 - 3:30 PM: Panel 4, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall     

Carol Wayne White, “Stubborn Materiality: African-American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity”
Respondent: Krista Hughes

3:30 - 3:45 PM: Break

3:45 - 4:45 PM: Panel 5, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall              

Loriliai Biernacki, "The Subtle Body: Entangled Subject-Objects in Abhinavagupta’s 11th Century Tantric Philosophy"
Respondent: John Thatamanil

4:45 - 5:45 PM: Panel 6, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall            

Elias Ortega-Aponte, “Resonance Through the Door: An Africana Reading of Complexity and Quantum Entanglement”
Respondent: Jeffrey W. Robbins

6:30 PM: Dinner for invited Speakers & Respondents

 

Sunday, March 30, 2014

8:30 - 9:15 AM: Continental Breakfast and Alumni Breakfast

9:15 - 10:30 AM: Panel 7, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall          

Jane Bennett, “Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy”
Respondents: Josh Ramey, Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, and Brianne Donaldson

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 - 11:45 AM: Panel 8, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall       

Theodore Walker, Jr., “Astro-Theology and Other Interdisciplinary Connections to Liberation Ethics”
Respondent: Robert Corrington

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: Lunch (box lunches available for purchase)

1:00 - 2:00 PM: Panel 9, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall          

Catherine Keller, “Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology”
Respondent: Whitney Bauman

2:00 - 3:00 PM: Panel 10, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall     

Philip Clayton, “Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Reconceiving Biology/Philosophy/Theology/Ethics If It’s Agents All the Way Down”
Respondent: Luke Higgins

3:00 - 4:00 PM: Wrap Up