Finding Co-Panelists for the 2016 CFH Meeting
The 30th biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith & History is set to take place from October 19-22 at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The meeting will include plenary speakers Kate Bowler, Thomas Kidd, and Verónica Gutiérrez. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2016, for the General Conference (October 20-22) and April 15, 2016, for the undergraduate Student Research Conference (October 19-20). The conference theme will be “Christian Historians and the Challenges of Race, Gender, and Identity,” but papers on any topic will be considered.
Proposals for general conference sessions, individual papers, or panel discussions can be sent to Beth Allison Barr (Beth_Barr@baylor.edu) or Josh McMullen (jmcmullen@regent.edu). Please include 300-500 word paper proposals (with titles) and contact information. Sessions will be 90 minutes each, which should allow for three papers and questions. Roundtable proposals are also encouraged. If you have an idea for a panel or paper topic, please feel free to share it in the comments section of this post. If someone else has a paper topic that fits with yours, they can then reply in the comments.
To get the creative juices flowing, here is a non-exhaustive list of ideas you may want to consider for paper and panel sessions:
Christian Historians’ Responsibility to the Church concerning Gender Roles
How Christian Intellectuals Have Engaged Race and/or Gender
Engaging Issues of Race, Gender, and/or Christian Identity in Global history
Christian Historians’ Response to Issues of Race and/or Gender within the Academia
How Race and/or Gender Impact Religious History
The Role of Public Historians in Addressing the Challenges of Race, Gender, and/or Identity
How Theology Shapes Understandings of Race and/or Gender
Christian Historians’ Response to the Treatment of Women and/or the Challenges of Diversity in the Professional Academy
Teaching Women’s History and its Significance as Christian Historians
Teaching about Race as Christian Historians
Writing Gender History
Engaging Race and/or Gender in Survey Courses
Christian Historians and Engagement with Political Debates on Race, Gender, and Identity
I’d love to be part of a panel or roundtable discussion on something along the lines of: “Teaching Women’s History” or “Engaging Race and/or Gender in Survey Courses.” Is anyone else interested in doing something like that together?
I am an Associate Professor of History at Point Loma Nazarene University. I teach U.S. History surveys, U.S. Women’s History, and World Civilizations II. I am also on the board of our Women’s Studies Center, and the Women’s History course I teach counts toward the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies minor.
I’d like to be part of a panel on women in medieval Europe, particularly Britain.
I’m a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at Baylor University.
I am working on a topic about youth movements in late-19th/early 20th-century Germany (primarily young men)–intellectuals, working class, and anti-establishment–particularly as they expressed themselves through music and singing. But this would work well with any topic about young men and expressions of “unity”.
Brendan, I will be happy to join with you on a Women in Medieval Europe panel. Let’s see if we can get one more person and a chair.
Brendan and Beth, I have a paper in mind on Anna Komnene. If you would be willing to include a Byzantine paper, I’d love to join you all!
I would be interested in doing a panel on women and the professionalization of evangelical institutions/ ministries during the Progressive Era. In his recent book, Timothy Gloege argues that as institutions like MBI became more “professional” they became more “male-dominated” in leadership (126). I’m curious if anyone has research that supports or revises this thesis as it applies to evangelical circles. My paper would be on Billy Sunday and female leadership in big-tent urban revivalism.
I am putting a panel together which looks at various aspects of Calvin’s reception of the medieval era (an intentionally broad topic). I have two papers already, one on Calvin’s transformation of penance and the other on his qualified view of astrology. Please email me your paper title, abstract/proposal, and a short intro blurb (if sending your CV is easier please feel free to do that).
One of my colleagues and I are looking for a third presenter to join us on a panel about how historians interpret the history of race in parachurch organizations and in Christian universities. As the historian for The Navigators, I will be covering the complex history of ethnicity at The Navs and talking about how I deal with this topic as a public/corporate historian. Dr Coats from Lee University will be looking at the integration of Lee. We’re looking for a third presenter to present something on either ethnicity/race or other outsider groups. Public history topics are especially welcome!
If you have any research along those lines, let’s talk!
I am working on a project dealing with nostalgia, memory, and identity in early American history. The paper I am considering engages largely with the Great Awakening, but any additions regarding religion in American history or concepts of memory & identity would help to make a solid panel.
Susan, if you’re still looking for a third panelist, I could present something on the changing ways Billy Sunday dealt with race and the prophetic possibilities and limitations of revivalism in the early twentieth century. If you’re interested, just email me directly at jennifer.wiard@gmail.com.