DRTS Students Presenting at the upcoming AAR/SBL Annual Meeting 2011

November 10th, 2011

American Academy of Religion
Saturday – Nov. 19th

Session A19-119, Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group (9:00 am-11:30 am), Room: IC-Stockton

Connor Wood (Religion and Medicine):
“Dancing with the Dark: Social Hierarchy and Models of Health in Korean Shamanism”

Session A19-123, African Diaspora Religions Group (9:00 am-11:30 am), Room: MM-Nob Hill A

Karyna Do Monte (Religion and Society):
“Brazilian Candomblé Meets Ecology: A Samba Plot in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival”

Session A19-217, Platonism and Neoplatonism Group (1:00 pm-3:30 pm), Room: IC-Potrero Hill

Derek Michaud (Theology):
“Saint Bonaventure on Divine Unity and the Inner Life of the One”


Society of Biblical Literature

Saturday, Nov. 19th

Session S19-306, Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World, (4:00 pm- 6:30 pm), Room: 2018 – Convention Center

Christopher Stroup (Ancient Christianity):
“Provincializing Rome: Aphrodisias and the Negotiation of Civic Identity”

American Academy of Religion
Sunday, Nov. 20th

Session A20-126, Childhood Studies and Religion Group, (9:00 am-11:30 am), Room: IC-Nob Hill

Kevin M. Taylor (Religion and Society):
“Parenting, Religion, and American Culture: A Comparative Look at Visions of the Good Life for Children among Hindu and Mainline Protestant Communities”

Session A20-276, Mysticism Group, (3:00 pm-4:30 pm), Room: MM-Yerba Buena 14

Regina Walton (Religion and Literature):
“Sighs, Groans, and the Mystical Paradox of Wordless Speech in the Poetry of George Herber”


Society of Biblical Literature

Sunday, Nov. 20th

Session S20-337, Rhetoric and the New Testament, (5:00 pm), Room: Nob Hill D – Marriott Marquis

Courtney Wilson VanVeller (Ancient Christianity):
“Chrysostom’s Analysis of Paul’s Gentle Rhetoric about Jews and Judaism”
American Academy of Religion
Monday, Nov. 21st

Session A21-325, Mysticism Group and Music and Religion Group, (4:00 pm-6:30 pm), Room: MM-Sierra J

Paul Cassell (Science, Philosophy, Religion): 
“What the ‘Strange Trip’ of the Deadhead Community Can Teach Us About Religion”

Session A19-119, Special Topics Forum, (6:00 pm-8:00 pm), *Offsite (California Institute for Integral Studies, Room 207)

Connor Wood (Religion and Medicine):
“Social Defeat and Korean Shamanism”