The snow has forced some changes to the Religious Freedom conference. Please see the updated schedule below.
MARCH 22
UNIVERSITY CENTER, COLONNADE
10:00AM-10:30AM OPENING REMARKS
10:30AM-12:30PM SPEAKER PANEL
12:30PM-2:00PM LUNCH
2:00PM-4:30PM SPEAKER PANEL
4:30PM-4:45PM CLOSING REMARKS
SPECIAL EVENT: MONROE HALL 116
7:00PM-8:30PM ROUNDTABLE
MARCH 23
UNIVERSITY CENTER, COLONNADE
9:30AM-12:00PM SPEAKER PANEL
12:00PM-1:30PM LUNCH
1:30PM-2:30PM ESSAY WINNERS
2:30PM-4:00PM REFLECTION
4:00PM-4:15PM CLOSING REMARKS
Speaker Panels Breakdown with titles
March 22nd
Panel 1: ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Monica Miller (Lehigh University): “The Struggle of (Black) Gods Today: A.L.L.A.H and the Rhetoric of Divine Subjectivity”
Benjamin Marcus (Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute): “Who Is the Expert?: Authority and Knowledge in Religious Literacy Education”
Panel 2: Persecution complex
MARY BETH MATHEWS (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON): “Fearing for Christ’s Safety in the Lynching South: African American Evangelicals, Race, and Violence”
KELLY J. BAKER (FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR OF WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION): “Persecuted and Persecutors: The 1920s Klan and the Alt-right’s Narratives of American Decline”
DOROTHY KIM (VASSAR COLLEGE): “IMITATIO YIANNOPOULOS”
March 23rd
Morning Panel: Religious Violence
Emily Filler (Earlham College): “AGAINST COERCION AND RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE: SURPRISING RESOURCES FROM THE JEWISH TRADITION”
Mehdi Aminrazavi (University of Mary Washington): ISLAM IN AMERICA: WHEN VICTIMS ARE SEEN AS VICTIMIZERS
Diane Fruchtman (Rutgers University): “Living Martyrs and the Violence of Ideology: The Legacies of Martyrdom Without Death in Contemporary American Political Discourse”