All sessions will be in the Trone Student Union at Furman University. All regular sessions will occur in the Burgiss Theater. Plenary Sessions will be in the Watkins Room.
On-site registration and check-in will be in the lobby of the Trone Student Union beginning at 11:30 AM, Thursday the 23rd.
Lodging and transportation information is available here.
Thursday, March 23
First shuttle from Downtown Greenville Westin Poinsett hotel: 11:15 AM
Second & last shuttle from Downtown Greenville Westin Poinsett hotel: 11:45 AM
11:30 AM (Trone Student Union lobby): Registration begins
12:30 – 12:45 PM (Watkins Room): General Welcome & Information
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Kevin Schilbrack (Appalachian State University), “Religious Affordances”
1:45-2:30 PM: Brock Bahler (University of Pittsburgh), “Phenomenology of Embodied Cognition”
2:30-2:45 PM: Break
2:45-3:30 PM: Vita Emery (Fordham University), “Mystical Experience: Revelation in and of the Body”
3:30-4:15 PM: Neal DeRoo (The King’s University), “Toward a Material Spirituality: Religion and Phenomenological Expression”
4:15-4:30 PM: Break
4:30-5:15 PM (Burgiss Theater): Ronald L. Mercer, Jr. (Chapman Seminary), “Awaiting Your Reply: Why the Church Needs the Blues”
5:15-5:30 PM: Break
5:30-6:45 PM (Watkins Room): Wendy Farley (San Francisco Theological Seminary), “Divine Emptiness and Dark Times: Marguerite Porete and the Death of Reason”
6:45-7:30 PM (Watkins Lobby): Reception
7:30-9:00 PM – Dinner & drinks at the Tupelo Honey Café (downstairs in Trone Student Union)
9:00 PM: Shuttle return to Westin Poinsett Hotel
Friday, March 24
7:15 AM: First shuttle from Westin Poinsett
7:45 AM: Second & last shuttle from Westin Poinsett
7:45-8:30 (Burgiss lobby): Coffee & pastries
8:30-9:15 AM: Kate Finley (University of Notre Dame), “Embodied Cognition and Religious Experience”
9:15-10:00 AM: Daniel Jesse (Grand Rapids Community College), “An Invitation to Sorrow: Saturating our Liturgy with Sadness”
10:00-10:45 AM: Sharon L. Putt (Messiah College), “Improvising ‘Compassionate Action’: Taking Farley and Benson to Bethany”
10:45-11:00 AM: Break
11:00-11:45 AM: Joseph Rivera (Dublin City University), “Reconciling Metaphysics and Sacramental Experience: Reflections on the Eucharist”
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Michelle Panchuk (University of Notre Dame), “Toward a Liturgy of Protest”
12:30-1:45 PM: Lunch in Furman Dining Hall or Food Court
1:45-2:30 PM: Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University), “Naked Before God: Kierkegaard’s Liturgical Self”
2:30-3:15 PM: Jacob Given (Villanova University), “Reflecting on the Way Along the Way: Formal Indication as Theological Method”
3:15-3:30 PM: Break
3:30-4:15 PM: Clayton Shoppa (Saint Francis College), “Liturgy and Contemplation”
4:15-5:00 PM: Brian Harding (Texas Woman’s University), “Liturgies of Life and Death (or Matadors, Philosophers, and God)”
5:30-6:45 PM (Watkins Room): Bruce Ellis Benson (Loyola Marymount University), “The Liturgical Basis of Religion”
7:00-9:00 PM (Hartness Pavilion): Banquet
9:00 PM: Shuttle back to Westin Poinsett Hotel
If you have any questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to contact the conference organizer, J. Aaron Simmons at: aaron.simmons@furman.edu or 864-294-3526
Sponsors:
Ayers Lecture in Philosophy and Religion
Furman University Philosophy Department