Spring Workshop Schedule

You are cordially invited to attend the Religions in America (RAME) workshop this quarter. All events (unless otherwise noted) are held on Thursdays from 12-1:15 pm in the Marty Center Seminar Room or Library (Second Floor, Swift Hall). Lunch is usually served. We hope to see you there!

12 April

Diane Picio (PhD Student, Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture), “Representing the Family” (dissertation proposal)

Location TBD

Pre-circulated paper

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3 May

Michele Ferris (PhD Candidate, Religions in America), a chapter from her dissertation, “German Religious Periodicals as a Site for Disseminating Racial Ideology and Challenging American Norms of Citizenship in Antebellum Cincinnati”

MMC Library

Pre-circulated paper

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17 May

Brett Colasacco (PhD Candidate, Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture), “Robinson Jeffers, Philosophical Calvinist”

MMC Seminar Room

Pre-circulated paper

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24 May

When American Religion Goes Digital: Pedagogical Innovation in the Teaching of American Religion(s) [co-sponsored with Craft of Teaching] [Arts of Teaching]

12:00-1:30pm, Swift Hall Common Room

Join Monica Mercado (PhD ’14, Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University) for a conversation thinking at once about pedagogical innovations in the teaching of American religions—focusing especially on the perils and possibilities of the digital humanities for the undergraduate classroom—while also considering how graduate students approaching the academic job market can prepare to write and speak about their teaching experience. (Prof. Mercado, who recently navigated the job market successfully, will pre-circulate her teaching philosophy statement for those who plan to attend the session.) In advance of the workshop, participants are asked to review Ashley Reed’s “Digital Humanities and the study and teaching of North American religions,” in Religion Compass (2016).

Coffee and tea provided (No lunch)