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Emanuel Fiano, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of theology, presented a paper, “The Sententiae Syriacae (The Laws of the Christian and Just Kings) in Their Imperial Legal Context,” in the Religious World of Late Antiquity session Back from the Dead: Lost Texts, Ideas, Things at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, presented a paper, “The Price and Pain of Memory: Institutional Reckoning with White Supremacy,” in the session The Costs of Memory and Ethical Economies of (Un)Just Remembrance in the Religion and Economy Unit and Religion and Memory Unit at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
She also served as a panelist for the session Christian Imaginations of the Other: The Impact of Religionization and Racialization on (Inter)Religious Studies in the Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit.
Karina Martin Hogan, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of biblical studies and ancient Judaism, presented a paper titled “Deborah in L.A.B.: Mother in Israel and Prophet like Moses” in the Pseudepigrapha/Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature session Women and Women’s Voices. She also presided over the Pseudepigrapha Open Session at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Ki-Eun Jang, Ph.D ARTS AND SCIENCES, assistant professor of Bible in global cultures, presented the paper “Historicizing Canaanites: Ancient Historiography, Archeological Labels, and ‘Double Subjectivity'” in the Historiography and the Hebrew Bible session at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Stephanie Huezo-Jefferson, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, assistant professor of history, won the Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars and the Mellon Foundation for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Kathryn Kueny, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, presented a paper, “Skin-to-Skin Violence and Intimacy: Animal Skins and Human/Animal relations in Premodern Islamic Rhetoric, Law, and Practice,” in the session Animals at/as the Margin Between Violence and Non-Violence in the Animals and Religion Unit at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology and the Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, participated in a panel“Internal Debates Among Contemporary Churches About Religious Freedom and Human Rights” at Georgetown University on Oct. 22. The event was part of the conference Religion and Human Rights from the UDHR to Dignitatis Humanae.
Michael Peppard, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, presented a paper, “The Festivals of Passover and Unleavened Bread as the Seasonal Setting of 1 Corinthians,” in the Pauline Epistles session Sexual and Temporal Bodies at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Kathryn Reklis, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of theology, was a panelist on the roundtableTypologies of Violence in Contemporary Television in the Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit; the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit; and the Religion and Popular Culture Unit at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
She also presided over the Business Meeting for the session Religion, Digitality, and Ethnography in the Religion, Media, and Culture Unit.
John Seitz, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of theology, presided over the session Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians by Jeroen Dewulf as well as the Business Meeting for the Catholic Studies Unit and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
Magda Teter, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and professor of history, has an article, “Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia,” in the Dec. 5 issue of The New York Review of Books.
She also delivered the Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture, titled “On Jewish Suffering, Jewish History, and the Need to Rethink Antisemitism” on Nov. 20 at Columbia University.
Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of theology, presented a paper, “Fresh Waters, Anthropocene Futurisms, and Anti-Colonial Narrative Option,” in the session Slippage, Flow, and Aqueous Extractions in the Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in San Diego, California, held from Nov. 23 to 26.
