Transfiguring Passions: Theologies and Theories of Eros
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SATURDAY, October 30
Founders Room, Mead Hall

Time Presentation
9am-9:45 Opening
9:45am-10:45 Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About (Platonic) Love: The Symposium and Christian Erotics
Respondent: Dale Martin, Yale University
10:45 am-11:45 Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow
Passion. Binding. Passion.
Respondent: Danna Fewell, Drew University
11:45-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University
Lyrical Theology: The Song of Songs and the Advantage of Poetry
Respondent: Cheryl Anderson, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
2:30-3:30 pm Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester
Thantos and the Passion for Transformation
Respondent: Catherine Keller, Drew University
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:00 pm Robert Corrington, Drew University
American Transcendentalism's Erotic Aqua-tecture
Respondent: Elliot Wolfson, New York University
5:00-6:00 pm Richard Kearney, Boston College
Divine Eros - Ascending and Descending
Respondent: Chris Boesel, Drew University

 
SUNDAY, October 31
Founders Room, Mead Hall

Time Presentation
9am-10:00am Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
Carthage Didn't Burn Hot Enough: St. Augustine's Divine Seduction
Respondent: Mark Jordan, Emory University
10:00am-11:00 am Virginia Burrus, Drew University
Praying is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius of Pontus's Chapters On Prayer
Respondent: John Hoffmeyer, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
11:00am-12:00 Amy Hollywood, University of Chicago
Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or Queering the Beguines
Respondent: Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh
Kissing Evita's Shoes: Feetishism -- The Scent of a Latin American Body Theology
Respondent: Otto Maduro, Drew University
2:30-3:30 pm Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
Digital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh
Respondent: Terry Todd, Drew University
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:00 pm Diana Swancutt, Yale Divinity School
Making Sex Work: A Queer Proposal for a Christian Ethics of Sexual Service
Respondent: Stephen Moore, Drew University

 
MONDAY, November 1 – STUDENT SESSION
Mead Hall, Wendel Room

Time Presentation
10am-11:00 Opening
11:00am-12:00pm Mario Costa, "For the Love of God: the Death of Desire and the Gift of Love."
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm Anna Mercedes, "Kenotic Desire, Becoming Self"
2:45-3:45 pm Mayra Rivera Rivera, "Memory of the Flesh: Divine Transcendence and Human Otherness"
4:00-5:00 pm Richard Patrick Whaite, "Desiring Anthropology: the Soul and Materiality"