by joelabrown | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
“How Could Their Food Not Be Impure?” Jewish Food and the Definition of Christianity by David M. Freidenreich (Colby College) With invited responses by: Anna Sapir Abulafia (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge); Alexandra Cuffel (Käte Hamburger...
by joelabrown | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Voices of Despair and Gestures of Grief in Rituals of Mourning and Italian Marian Laments in the late Middle Ages by Emanuela Zanotti Carney (University of Illinois—Chicago) With invited responses by: Gail Holst-Warhaft (Cornell University, Comparative Literature);...
by joelabrown | Jan 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Drought: Confronting Vulnerability Jonathan Wyn Schofer (Harvard Divinity School, Comparative Ethics) With invited responses by: Julia Watts Belser (Missouri State University; Harvard Divinity School, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies); Diana Cates (University of...
by joelabrown | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
December 2011 Whose Lion Is It, Anyway? Rescuing the Chronicles of Narnia from the Christian Academy by Emanuelle Burton (University of Chicago; Martin Marty Center Dissertation Fellow) With invited responses by: Robert Boenig (Texas A&M University, English);...
by joelabrown | Jan 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
December 2010 The Spirit of David: Negotiating Faith and Masculinity in Black Gospel Performance by Melvin Butler (University of Chicago) With invited responses by E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern University) and Kyle Wagner (University of Chicago). ...
by joelabrown | Jan 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
December 2009 ‘Something Deeper than Reason’: Violence and Nonviolence in the Plowshares Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Kristen J. Tobey (University of Chicago) With invited responses by Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico), Jon...