Schedule

This year the Religions in America Workshop will meet on Thursdays from 12:30 – 1:50 p.m. in Swift 200. Lunch is usually served.

The schedule below is subject to change, so please check our main page for details the week before each event, or email hozmun@uchicago.edu with questions.

 

Winter 2022

27 January

Derek Buyan, PhD candidate, University of Chicago

“The Meaning of Our Creed: Dignity, Democracy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Christian Personalism,” Pre-circulated paper.

17 February

Joel Brown, PhD candidate, University of Chicago

“Homes for the ‘Least of These’: The Christian Social Activism of African American Women’s Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago,” Pre-circulated paper.

21 February

Pub night in Ida Noyes!

3 March

Erin Simmonds, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

“Religion, Sex, and the Law in American History,” Pre-circluated syllabus.

10 March

Dr. Daniel Vaca, Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities, Brown University

“Gospels of Efficiency in Gilded Ages,” Pre-circulated paper.

 

Autumn 2017

5 October

 Pub Night! (University Pub, 6-7pm) No paper, just conversation

12 October

Karl Kuehner (MA Student, U. of Chicago)

“Modern Warriors: Jerry Falwell, The New Christian Right, and the Experience of Modernity” Pre-circulated paper

26 October (*12:30 – 1:30pm)

Russell Johnson (PhD Candidate, U. of Chicago), “The Struggle is Real: Understanding the American ‘Culture War’” Pre-circulated paper

10 November (2-4pm, Third Floor, Swift Hall)

David Hall (Harvard University), “Thinking across (Protestant) Reformations: Scotland, England, and New England, 1550-1640” (Co-sponsored with the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture) Panel Respondents: W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology, and Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature No pre-circulated paper

16 November

Erin Simmonds (PhD Student, U. of Chicago)

“Battling ‘The Other’: Atheism’s Dual Role in the Evolution Debates of the 1920s” Pre-circulated paper

30 November

Kit Shields (PhD Candidate, U. of Chicago), “‘Written on Their Hearts’: Body, Imagination, and Slave Literacy” Pre-circulated paper