We have now placed video recordings of all of the plenary speakers from last November’s meeting online. We will highlight each speaker in a news post here, and we encourage you to share the videos and use them in teaching. In the opening plenary of the 2015 meeting Emilie Townes focused on the challenges of imagination […]
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Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment,” due by May 15, 2016. This volume will explore the intersection between transgender studies and ecology, with contributions from an international group of scholars representing a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to such
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Bert Roebben, our incoming annual meeting program chair, has posted a paper which further lays out some of his ideas for the upcoming meeting. Here’s the abstract: This contribution is situated in the European discourse on the role of the teacher of religious/worldview education in schools. Based on the assumption that every child and youngster
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The National Society for Experiential Education announces the call for papers for its September 2016 conference, “Experiential Education: Institutional Impact, Diversity, and Student Success.” A variety of formats will be considered, more details are available online. The deadline is January 29, 2016.
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The steering committee of the REA Board of Directors has issued a public statement on the paralyzing effects of disimagination in this year of hostile public discourse.
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Theopoetics: a transdisciplinary conference with workshops and dialogue is scheduled for March 18 and 19, 2016 at Boston University. This conference will be a gathering for those whose interests live at — or near — the intersection of theology with imagination, aesthetics, embodiment, and literature. The interplay of these areas with one another has come to
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SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR DEPARTURES IN CRITICAL QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths: Exploring the Theory, Praxis, and Creativity of Black Girlhood Studies Guest Editors: Chamara Jewel Kwakye, University of Kentucky; Dominique C. Hill, Miami University; Durell M. Callier, University of Illinois; and Hill L. Waters Created by scholar, artist, and activist Ruth
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Nazareth College, Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue is accepting abstracts for its 3rd international conference on Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Nature and Environment in the Sacred Texts of World Religions to be held at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York on May 23-25, 2016 in collaboration with Department of Religious Studies at Hobart William-Smith Colleges,
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Nostra Aetate is a document from the Roman Catholic church that was promulgated as part of Vatican II. This year it is 50 years old, and there have been some wonderful conferences and other events marking that anniversary. Why? Because the document was a key turning point in not only the Catholic church’s but other Christian
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Re-imagining Confirmation – Three Hopeful Shifts Webinar by Lisa Kimball, Virginia Seminary, and Terri Elton, Luther Seminary Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 11:00 am EST What is the meaning and purpose of confirmation as church affiliation in North America declines? What does confirmation offer to meet the spiritual hunger of contemporary teenagers? What can be learned
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