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WECSOR Program 2002 WECSOR The Western Commission for the Study of Religion Annual Meeting Program Information G American Academy of Religion/Western Region G Society of Biblical Literature/Pacific Coast Region G Western Jewish Studies Association Saint Mary’s College of California Moraga, California March 23rd — 26th 2002 General Info General InformationGeneral Info This Booklet From Oakland/San Francisco The Western Commission on the Study of Religion is responsible for coordinating the Traveling East on the 24 Freeway exit at the Moraga/Orinda Exit. At the end of the ramp, annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Western Region, the Society for turn right. Within a couple of blocks that road will become Moraga Way. Go straight Biblical Literature, Pacific Coast Region, and the Western Jewish Studies Association, until you get to the Town of Moraga where you will see shopping centers on both sides academic research organizations dedicated to the study of religion and the Bible. Papers of the road. (Watch for the signs all along that indicate the direction to Saint Mary's presented by the AAR/WR are listed with an A in front of them and the number of the College.) At the main intersection, you will turn left onto Moraga Road. Go about a quar- paper; papers presented by the SBL/PCR are listed with an S in front of them and the ter of a mile and turn right onto Saint Mary's Road. Not far up that road, you will see number of the paper; and papers presented by the WJSA are listed with an W in front of Saint Mary's College on your right. Turn right to enter the Saint Mary's College. If you them and the number of the paper. need directions on campus, go to the information booth at the end of the entryway. Registration and Information Desk NOTE: If you are coming from the San Jose area, it is better to take the 680 Freeway Everyone attending any portion of the program is required to register ($35 for full and North to Walnut Creek and then follow the directions from Walnut Creek to Saint associate professor; $25 for assistant professors and lecturers; $20 for students; $25–$100 Mary's College, than to go through Oakland. for Independent Scholars and Benefactors). Lodging The Registration and Information desk will be set up in the Soda Center. Signs will There are two excellent hotels in the area: abound to guide you in the right direction. The section meetings will be held in the The Lafayette Park Hotel and Spa provides luxury rooms at convention rates of; Deluxe Dante and Garaventa classrooms. rooms $147, Premium $157, Executive Fireplace $167 single or double occupancy. Please call Publishers Book Exhibit Dryden Hall the Lafayette at 925-283-3700 and request the WECSOR convention rate for your room. We have invited the usual group of publishing houses to present their books in a special The Walnut Creek Marriott is the other hotel with all rooms available single or dou- room set aside for them in Dryden Hall. ble occupancy for $89 per room. Please call the Marriott at 925-927-1107 and ask for Transportation Vanessa. She is keeping the records for the WECSOR conference rate. Air The Oakland Airport is the most convenient airport. Upon arrival, go to the Bay Contact Persons Porter desk and take their shuttle bus to either hotel. Alternatively, take a bus to BART from the airport. Take the train going north towards Richmond or San Francisco. Transfer WECSOR Richard Keady 408-924-4312 [email protected] to the Bay Point train in Oakland and get off at the stop just 3 blocks from the Marriott AAR/WR Marilyn Gottschall 562-907-4200 [email protected] Hotel in Walnut Creek. Pick up the white courtesy phone or call the courtesy desk at 925- SBL/PCR Jonathan Reed 909-593-3511 #4366 [email protected] 283-3700 at the Lafayette Park Hotel and Spa for a pick-up from the Lafayette BART station. WJSA Car From Walnut Creek Laurie Baron [email protected] Traveling West on the 24 Fwy. Exit at the Central Lafayette Exit. You will come to a traf- fic light; this is Deer Hill Road. Turn right. Then, make the first right turn at First Street, Special thanks are extended to the following which will take you under the Fwy overpass. Get into the right lane. First Street ends at individuals and institutions: Mount Diablo Road (the second traffic light). Make a right on Mount Diablo Road, but get St. Mary's College of California immediately into the far left lane. Make the next possible left turn (at the traffic light), Barbara McGraw, President, AAR/WR which puts you on Moraga Road. Turn left onto Saint Mary's Road about 4 miles later. Marilyn Gottschall, Vice President/Program Chair, AAR/WR (Watch for the signs all along that indicate the direction to Saint Mary's College.) You Marvin Sweeney, President SBL/PCR will come to a fork in the road at a stop sign, bear right, staying on Saint Mary's Road. From there it is three miles to Saint Mary's College. You will go through three more stop Jonathan Reed, Regional Coordinator SBL/PCR signs. Turn left to enter the Saint Mary's College campus. If you need directions on cam- Lawrence Baron, President, WJSA pus, go to the information booth at the end of the entryway. Michal Merraro, Assistant to the AAR/WR Program Chair 2 3 ARR Synopsis of Events ARR Synopsis of Events 3:00—4:50 pm Session 2 10:30—12:00 pm Session 4 Room 8:00 pm Saturday March 23rd 2002 A6 EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS Sichel 101 S9 SBL Plenary WJSA Plenary Kyran 1:30–5:30 pm Room * A7 NINETEENTH CENTURY Sichel 102 EXCAVATING JESUS: BENEATH THE STONES, * Dance Performance Lafayette AAR/WR Board FOUNDERS A8 PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL BEHIND THE TEXTS Moraga * th SCIENCES II Garaventa 140 12—1:30 pm Tuesday March 26 2002 Sunday March 24th 2002 A9 RELIGIONS OF ASIA I Dante 113 7:30—8:30 am Women’s Caucus Lunch Lafayette 9:30 am A10 ECOLOGY AND RELIGION II Dante 114 * S3 JUDAISM IN THE GRECO-ROMAN * WJSA Shofar Editorial Board Founders * AAR/WR Section Chairs Lafayette * Women’s Caucus Preconference with ERA I Dante 115 1:30—3:20 pm Session 5 * SBL Section Chairs Founders Grad Students Kyran S4 NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES AND 8:30—10:20 am Session 7 A16 INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS Sichel 101 10:00 am APOCALYPSE I Dante 116 A17 A26 RELIGIONS OF ASIA III Sichel 101 S5 PENTATEUCH Dante 117 RELIGION AND THE ARTS I Sichel 102 WJSA Executive Board Founders A18 A27 PERSON, CULTURE, AND RELIGION II Sichel 102 * W5 JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF AAR/WR Executive Committee Faculty-Staff * LITERATURE Dante 118 RELIGION I Garaventa 140 A28 WOMEN AND RELIGION II Garaventa 140 SBL Executive Committee Orinda A19 * W6 MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT Dante 120 LGBTQ STUDIES AND RELIGION Dante 113 A29 ISLAMIC STUDIES PANEL Dante 113 A20 11:30–12:50 pm ISLAMIC STUDIES TEACHING A30 RELIGION IN AMERICA I Dante 114 5:00—6:00 pm WORKSHOP Dante 114 W14JEWISH SPIRITUALITY IN COMPARATIVE WECSOR Board Founders * * AAR/WR Plenary Moraga S10 HEBREW BIBLE II: WRANGLING PERSPECTIVE Dante 118 11:30–1:00 pm Early Session WITH WRITINGS Dante 115 W15HERMENEUTICS AND CLASSICAL JEWISH 6:00—7:00 pm S11 NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES AND TEXTS Dante 120 w1 THE USES AND ABUSES OF THE W7 APOCALYPSE II Dante 116 WJSA DIRECTORS OF JEWISH STUDIES Kyran 10:30—12:20 am Session 8 HOLOCAUST IN FEATURE FILMS Sichel 101 W10MORMONISM AND JUDIASM Dante 118 6:15—7:30 pm w2 SINISTER STEREOTYPES: VILIFYING THE “ENEMY” W11 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY A31 PERSON, CULTURE, AND TH IN THE PRESS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 Sichel 102 * AAR/SBL Plenary Claeys Lounge IN THE 19TH CENTURY Dante 120 RELIGION I Sichel 101 A32 THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF 1—2:50 pm Session 1 7:30 pm 3:30—5:20 pm Session 6 RELIGION III Sichel 102 A1 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY II Sichel 101 LGBTQ Reception Orinda A21 JUDAISM Sichel 101 A33 LGBTQ II Garaventa 140 A2 * BUDDHISM Sichel 102 A22 RELIGION AND THE ARTS II Sichel 102 A34 RELIGION AND THE ARTS III Dante 113 A3 th PSYCHOLOGY AND Monday March 25 2002 A23 ETHICS II Garaventa 140 A35 RELIGION IN AMERICA II Dante 114 THE SOCIAL SCIENCES I Garaventa 140 7—8:15 am A24 LATINA/O RELIGIONS II Dante 113 A4 RELIGION AND LITERATURE Dante 113 12:30 pm A25 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY I Dante 114 A5 ECOLOGY AND RELIGION I Dante 114 WJSA CSU Jewish Studies Consortium Kyran * S12 JUDAISM IN THE GRECO-ROMAN AAR/WR Lunch Lafayette S1 * NEW TESTAMENT TEXTS 8:30—10:20 am Session 3 ERA II Dante 115 AND TRADITIONS I Dante 115 S13 NEW TESTAMENT TEXTS AND A11 RELIGIONS OF ASIA II Dante 116 S2 HEBREW BIBLE I: GRAPPLING TRADITIONS III Dante 116 WITH GENISIS Dante 116 A12 WOMEN AND RELIGION I Sichel 102 W12 JEWISH RESPONSES TO W3 REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST A13 THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY Dante 118 IN CONTEMPORARY ART Dante 118 RELIGION II Garaventa 140 W13JEWISH RELIGIOSITY IN LATE W4 AMERICAN JEWRY AND JUDAISM IN A14 LATINA/O RELIGIONS I Dante 113 ANTIQUITY Dante 120 IN THE 20TH CENTURY Dante 120 A15 ETHICS I Dante 114 S6 BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY Dante 115 5:30—6:30 pm S7 NEW TESTAMENT TEXTS AND * AAR/WR President’s Address Claeys Lounge TRADITIONS II Sichel 101 SBL President’s Address Orinda S8 GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS Dante 117 * 6:30—8:00 pm W8 CALIFORNIA JEWS: FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Dante 118 * AAR/SBL/WJSA Banquet Moraga W9 KABALAH Dante 120 4 5 Special Meetings Special Meetings Saturday, March 23rd Monday, March 25th 1:30—5:30 PM Founders 7—8:15 AM Kyran AAR/WR Board WJSA CSU Jewish Studies Consortium Sunday, March 24th 10:30—12:00 NOON Moraga SBL Plenary 9:30 AM Kyran Women’s Caucus Pre-Conference with Grad 12—1:30 PM Lafayette Students Women’s Caucus Lunch 10—11:00 AM Founders 12—1:30 PM Founders WJSA Executive
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