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First name, Last name, “[Paper title],” conference paper at “Let Me Hear Your Voice”: Women, The Song of Songs, and Public Discourse, The University of Chicago, 3–5 June 2019, published online 16 October 2019 at https://voices.uchicago.edu/songofsongs/presentations.
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MONDAY, JUNE 3
5:00–6:45pm Session 1
Elaine James, Greetings – PROFILE | VIDEO
Simeon Chavel, “The Speaker of The Song of Songs” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Elaine James, “Sexism, Misogyny, and the Usefulness of Terms: Reading The Song of Songs after #MeToo” – ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Nyasha Junior, response – PROFILE</> | PDF | VIDEO
TUESDAY, JUNE 4
9:00–10:30am Session 2
Deborah Green, moderator
Kelli Gardner, “The Female Body as Landscape in The Song of Songs: Constructing Wholeness and Identity” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Martti Nissinen, “The Female Voice in Akkadian Love Poetry” – PROFILE |ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Sarah Zhang, “Speaking of the Other: Emotional Competencies in Song 5:2-8” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
10:30–11:00am Break
11:00am–12:00pm Session 2 continued
Jennifer Andruska, response – PROFILE | PDF | VIDEO
Chloe Blackshear, response – PROFILE | PDF | VIDEO
12:00–1:30pm Break
1:30–3:15pm Session 3
Nyasha Junior, moderator
Deborah Green, “Recovering Women from the Scholars (Even from Me)” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Karl Shuve, “Hildegard of Bingen: The Song’s First Female Interpreter” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO | Powerpoint Slides
Erin Galgay Walsh, response – PROFILE | PDF | VIDEO
3:15–3:45pm Break
3:45–5:30 Session 4
Karl Shuve, moderator
Anna Marsh, “Women’s Voices and the Cost of Going Public: The Song of Songs, Canonization, and Safe Spaces” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Rhiannon Graybill, “But Where is the Tweaking, Thwacking, Thumping, Sliming, and Rubbing You Might Have Expected–or Dreaded–in a Paper on Sex?’ Sex in Public in The Song of Songs” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | PDF | VIDEO
Aslan Cohen Mizrahi, response
WEDNESDAY JUNE 5
9:00–10:30am Session 5
Kelli Gardner, moderator
Karen Guth, “How to Read the Work of ‘Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things’: Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship and the #MeToo Debate on Cultural Texts of Terror” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT | VIDEO
Yvonne Sherwood, “The Hybrid Song between Religious Communities and ‘Secular’ States” – PROFILE | ABSTRACT| VIDEO
Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, response – PROFILE | PDF | VIDEO
10:30–11:00am Break
11:00–11:55am Session 6
Elaine James moderator
Jeffrey Stackert, synthesis – PROFILE | PDF | VIDEO (20 mins)
Fiona Black, synthesis (20 mins) – VIDEO | PDF
Open discussion (15 mins)
Concluded