4th Annual Graduate Conference in Religion
Wednesday, May 9 – YRL Presentation Room 11348
4:00-6:00 pm
Introductory Remarks
Carol Bakhos
Keynote Presentations
Claudia Setzer, Manhattan College
Christopher Hays, Fuller Theological Seminary
Matthew Suriano, University of Maryland
Q & A Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 10 – Royce 306
10:00 – 11:00 am Beyond Burial
“Faustina’s Masks: Constructions of Jewish-Roman Identity on a Fragmented Sarcophagus”
Megan Remington, University of California, Los Angeles
“From Behind the Curtain: Rabbinic Conceptions of the Afterlife”
Sheila Tuller Keiter, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00 – 11:30 am Break for Refreshments
11:30 -12:30 pm Bodies in Process
“Tibetan Buddhist Bodies and Meditative Tukdam Deaths”
Donagh Coleman, University of California, Berkeley
“’It’s Immortality, It’s Continuation, It’s Life. Even Though It’s Death:’ Photographic Ruminations on the Afterlife in Jacqueline Hayden’s Celestial Bodies”
Maggie Dethloff, University of California, Irvine
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30– 3:00 pm Interventions from Below the Earth
“Celestial Palace and Chthonic Prison: Afterlife Depictions on Religious Stone Stelae in Northern Wei China (CE 386-535)”
Junfu Wong, University of London
“Between Vindication and Resurrection: The Intermediate State of the Soul in the Afterlife of Tertullian.”
Aaron Samuels, University of California, Los Angeles
“Experiencing the Prophet: Love, Embodiment, and Religiosity among the Traditional Mappila Muslims of Kerala, South India”
Mohammed Roshan.CK, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
3:00 pm Concluding Remarks
Disclaimer: This schedule is subject to change.