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Lauren Turek To follow on Andrea L. Turpin's helpful recent post about Women & Gender presentations at the upcoming Conference on Faith and History , I would like to highlight presentations that will have some bearing on religion and international relations, broadly conceived. This includes panels or papers that touch on U.S. foreign policy, diplomacy, religious internationalism, foreign missionary work, war and society, and the like. The Conference on Faith and History will hold its 31st biennial meeting on October 4-6, 2018 in Grand Rapids, MI. The theme of the conference is “History and the Search for Meaning,” and the full conference schedule is available here . Panels and papers of particular interest to scholars of religion and internationalism include the following: Thursday, October 4 Session 2: War, the Environment and the Fallout of Violence Chair : William Katerberg, Calvin College Papers : “Environmental Impact of the Civil War in Syria," Kincaid Wurl, Southern...

Andrea L. Turpin I'm getting excited for the biennial Conference on Faith and History held this year at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI October 4-6. My anticipation is not only linked to the hope that this Texan will get to experience some Fall. It is also linked to the large number of promising papers on the program . This year marks the conference's 50th anniversary and I look forward to hearing reflections on where the field has been and where it is going. Even more so, I look forward to seeing first hand where it is going. One of the things that is so promising about the papers is how much the conference has diversified since I first began attending exactly ten years ago. Every single time slot of panel presentations contains at least one paper on women's or gender history and a couple contain entire competing panels. Notably, the presidential plenary by my Baylor colleague Beth Allison Barr will incorporate women's history. Equally encouraging is the range of t...

Alongside the AAR/SBL this year in Boston, NAASR will host its annual job market workshop from 1-3pm on Sunday, November 18. This is a great opportunity for early career scholars to receive feedback on their application materials from senior scholars with experience navigating the job market. Folks from any research area and specialty are welcome: if you're planning to apply for positions in Religious Studies, you'll fit right in. While most participants are ABDs, anyone on (or interested in) the market is welcome. This year we've split the workshop into two sessions: a workshop (for small group feedback on application materials) and a general Q&A. You are welcome to attend either session for as long as your schedule allows. For more information, please click here. . If you're interested in registering for this no-cost workshop, please e-mail me (grazmike [at] gmail [dot] com) by October 1. ** NAASR Job Market Workshop CFP This session proposes to explore the employ...

I corresponded recently with Lilian Calles Barger about her new book, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press). Lilian is a historian, author, women and gender consultant. She is currently a podcast co-host for New Books Network covering women and gender, religion, intellectual history and American Studies . Her research interests include the historical development of social, religious and feminist thought in modern America with a particular expertise in women and gender history. Visit her website ( www.lilianbarger.com) or follow her on twitter ( @lilianbarger ) Tell us about how you became interested in liberation theology I have been thinking about the history of theology in general for a long time. Women’s history and feminist theory was something I was interested in and reading in the 1990s. I found feminist theologians referring to Black and Latin American liberation theology and curious to find out more about that connection...