SATURDAY: 1PM- 3:30PM: “Children, Religion, and Violence.”
Hyatt-Harris (Atlanta Conference Level)
Chair: Philip Tite
Respondent: Sarah Iles Johnston
- Joel LeMon, Emory University
“Violence Against Children and Girls in the Reception History of Psalm 137”
- Diane Fruchtman, Washington and Lee University
“Instructive Violence: Educated Children as Victims and Aggressors in Late Antique
Latin Martyr Poetry”
- Paul Middleton, University of Chester
“‘Suffer little children’: Child-sacrifice, martyrdom, and Jewish and Christian identity
formation”
- Michael Heyes, Rice University
“‘Like an Innocent Lamb’: Accusations of Ritual Murder in English Martyrological
Narratives”
- Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
“When Pain Becomes Symbolic of Commitment: The Practice of Spanking among
Adults and Children Who Use Focus on the Family Childrearing Literature”
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SATURDAY: 4PM – 6:30PM: “Ethnographic Approaches to Religion and Violence.”
(Business Meeting after the panel)
Hyatt-Dunwoody (Atlanta Conference Level)
Chair: Michael Jerryson
- Ryan Williams, University of Calgary
“Islam and violence in UK maximum security prisons: An ethnographic approach”
- Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier University
“Foreign Fighters in Syria: Understanding the Whys and the Hows”
- James Ponniah Kulandai Raj, University of Madras
“Communal Violence in India: Exploring Strategies of its Provocation and Resolution in Contemporary Times”
- Grisel Oliva, Florida International University
“The Paradox of Ordination and Religious Nationalism: Theravada Buddhist Female Monastics and the 969 Movement in Burma”
- Iselin Frydenlund, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
“Buddhist militarism beyond texts: the importance of ritual during the Sri Lankan civil war”
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SATURDAY: 7PM – 9PM
CARV is co-sponsoring a reception for the journal Critical Research on Religion at Meehan’s Public House (200 Peachtree St). Open bar and appetizers provided.
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SATURDAY: 9PM – 11PM
CARV is co-sponsoring a reception for the Journal of Religion and Violence at the Westin-Peachtree Imperial Suite (69th Floor).
Viennese desserts, appetizers, wine, and gourmet coffee provided.
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SUNDAY: 3PM – 4:30PM: “Religion, Law, and Violence: Comparative Approaches to the Critique of Humanitarianism, Intervention, and War.”
Marriott-M106-107 (Marquis Level)
Chair: Henrik Syse
Respondent: Nathan French
- John Corrigan, Florida State University
“Religious Violence and American Foreign Policy”
- Troy Mack, Pace University
“The Atrocities of Carl Schmitt: Issues for Law, Religion, and Humanitarian Intervention”
- Gregory Reichberg , University of Oslo
“The Relation of Just War to International Law: Two Competing Catholic Approaches”
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TUESDAY: 9am – 11:30AM: “Religion, Violence, and the Social Imaginary.”
Marriott-International 3 (International Level)
Chair: Margo Kitts
- Christian Green, Emory University
“Questionable Martyrdom: Contemporary Disputes over Its Nature and Scope”
- Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College
“Is It Sweet to Die? Sacrificial Rhetoric and Discipline in U.S. Ways of War”
- Sharmin Sadequee, Michigan State University
“‘Guantanamo North’: Communications Management Units (CMU) and Questions of Disjuncture and Violence”
- James G. Kroemer, Concordia University, Wisconsin,
“’Fight for the Cause of Christ’ -Bernard of Clairvaux’s Rationale for Sacred Violence”
- Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University and Georgette Ledgister, Emory University
“Priests and Practices: Religion as a Social Imaginary for War and Sustainable Peace in Liberia”
