Annual Meeting 2024 Program Book

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Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting #1

This is the annual in-person meeting of the AAR's Committee on the Status of LGBTIQ+ Persons in the Professions. While the meeting is generally closed, AAR members wishing to bring a concern to the committee's attention should contact committee chair Melissa Wilcox at melissa.wilcox@ucr.edu.

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This meeting is for members of the Status of Women and Gender Minoritized Persons in the Professions Committee. The committee has been recommending policies and good practices to assure the full access and academic freedom of women and gender minoritized persons within the Academy and develops programs to enhance their status in the professions. For information on how to get involved with this committee or programs, including women’s mentoring lunch, organized by the committee, please reach out to committee chair, K. Christine Pae at paec@denison.edu.

"Digital technolgy and social media has not only transformed how religoius communities function, it has also changed how scholar teach about and conduct research on religion more broadly. If you are interested in how technology is changing -- or can change -- our work, then we invite you to attend THATCamp.

THATCamp is an unconference. This means learning and building occurs in hands-on workshops proposed by participants rather than in formal presentations. Topic could include artificial intelligence, new ways to analyze texts with Python, how to access and process social media posts, new examples / resources about religion, and many others. Have you found a clever use for technology? Come and share your experiences. How does digital scholarship fit into higher education? THATCamp is an open, welcoming environment for sharing and learning.

The cost of attending the unconference is $15, which includes an entire day of sessions and a coffee break."

This annual, one-day meeting brings together nationally recognized scholars and religion teachers from around North America to make contacts and hear about new developments in the study of the major religious traditions of the world. Scholars will share their latest research, and school teachers will share information about projects they are working on and classroom activities.

This roundtable will engage with questions and topics related but not limited to: subjectivity and data networks, critical access studies, waste studies, digital technologies, governmentality and global religions, indigenous studies, queer theory, trauma studies, and structures of time.

"This Editathon explores the role of Wikipedia in publicly engaged scholarship and education. It discusses the opportunities for publications in a scholarly, peer reviewed book series for biographies of women in religion. It tackles the difficulties of fostering cross-cultural partnerships with participants from around the world. And it discusses the role of new technologies, including AI, in knowledge production. The Editathon will have hands on experience using Wikipedia in both hour sessions plus time for Q&A. No experience necessary to attend. All are welcome.

This Editathon is sponsored by the Women in Religion Wiki User Group, launched in 2018 as a joint effort of the Women’s Caucus of the AAR/SBL and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. We seek to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives of cis and transgender women scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions and write women back into history, especially those who have made an impact in their faith and religious communities."