Schedule
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Keynote Address
The Saint in the Garden: New Considerations on Representation
Friday Afternoon, 3:00 p.m.
Gasson Hall, Room 305
Patricia Appelbaum, Author of St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint
Session #1
Friday Afternoon, 4:15-5:45 p.m.
Location: Third Floor of Gasson Hall
Panel A: Religious Reform (Mis)Represented
Anna Akasoy, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, City University of New York
“Martin Luther’s New Religion: Muslim Representations of the Reformation”
Alexander Baltovski, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Jeremy Taylor and Religious Identity in Early Modern Ireland”
Katrina Wheeler, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Misrepresenations of Huguenots in History and Modern Scholarship”
Chair: Owen Stanwood, Boston College
Panel B: Women, Racism, and Religious Insanity
Alexandra Prince, University at Buffalo
“Religious Insanity in Post-Emancipation Jamaica and the Politics of Historical Memory”
Kathy Cooke, University of South Alabama
“Representing Conversion: Ecstasy, Agency, and Race Betterment in Nineteenth Century America”
Courtney Lacy, Southern Methodist University
“Wearing Insanity: A Study in the Spectacle of Religiously Insane Women of the Nineteenth Century”
Chair: Martin Summers, Boston College
Panel C: Faith on Canvas
Geoffrey Pollick, Sweet Briar College
“Visualizing the ‘Poetry of Life’: Reconfiguring Religion through the Ashcan School of American Painters in the Pages of The Masses”
Caroline M. Culp, Stanford University
“Copley’s Magicked Canvases: Portraits and Power in Early America”
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
“Beyond Meaning: Christ and Crucifixion in the Art of William Congdon”
Chair: Judith Bookbinder, Boston College
Reception and Dinner
Friday Evening, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Walsh Function Room
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Continental Breakfast
Saturday Morning, 8:00 a.m.
Location: Third Floor of Gasson Hall
Session #2
Saturday Morning, 8:45 – 10:15 a.m.
Location: Third Floor of Gasson Hall
Panel D: Violence, War, and Redemption
David Babaian, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Notes of an African Muslim, Enslaved in North Carolina, on the Possibility of Christians Entering Heaven”
Renée Lafferty-Salhany, Brock University
“‘The Account We Must Render to God’: Luck, Prayer, and Providence in the Winning and Losing of the War of 1812”
Lauren Jannette, George Washington University
“The Church v. Romain Rolland: Pacifist Interpretations of Religious Texts in post-WWI France”
Chair: Michael McLean, Boston College
Panel E: Religion Before the Public
Joshua Leach, Independent Scholar, and Isaac Barnes May, University of Virginia
“Born-again Heroes versus Angsty Insiders: Comparing Protagonists in Contemporary Evangelical and Mormon Films”
Eden Consenstein, Princeton University
“‘A Book in Magazine Form’: Life Magazine’s 1955 Special Issue on Christianity”
Chair: Joanna Kelly, Boston College
Panel F: Varieties of Religious Space
Andrew S. Bethke, University of Minnesota
“Gothic Architecture, High Anglicanism, and the Representation of Banality in Late Nineteenth Century British India”
Patrick Lacroix, Phillips Exeter Academy
“American Perdition: French-Canadian Clergy and the Fate of Catholics in the United States"
Chair: John Morton, Boston College
Session #3
Saturday Morning, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel G: Race, Gender, and Christian Imperialism in American Protestant Missions, 1840-1945
Jessica M. Parr, Simmons College
“‘Land of Promise’: The Respectability Politics in Alexander Crummell’s Liberia
Laura R. Prieto, Harvard Divinity School
“‘Our Nurses are Such Christians’: Filipina Women and the Work of Evangelism at a Methodist Mission Hospital, 1906-1946”
Chair: Lisa Poirer, DePaul University
Panel H: Discovering Marsh Chapel
Panelists
Brother Lawrence A. Whitney, Boston University
Laura Nooney, Boston University
Charlie Guerrero, Boston University
David Bergeron-Keefe, Boston University
Panel I: Representing Judaism in American Literature and Culture
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College
“‘The Searchlight of Progress’: Reform Judaism in the Fiction of Emma Wolf
Rachel Gordan, University of Florida
“Herman Wouk and the Midcentury, Middlebrow Presentation of American Judaism”
Eli Bromberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Black Jewish Secularity in Fran Ross’s Oreo”
Chair: Ben Birnbaum, Boston College
Lunch and Film Panel
Saturday Afternoon, 12:00 – 2:30 p.m.
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story--Featuring a discussion with historian and film producer Andrew Finstuen
Location: Third Floor of Gasson Hall