​Conference Poster



​Program


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Thursday, March 26



9:15-9:30

Coffee and introductions



9:30-10:40

Lilian O’Brien (Tampere University/University of Helsinki)
“Committing, Intending, and the Distinction Challenge”

Commentator: Jacob Koval (Florida State)

Chair: Paul Katsafanas (BU)


 
11:00-12:10

Giles Howdle (Utrecht University)
“On Devoting Oneself”

     Commentator: Meredith McFadden (Northeastern)

Chair: Bridget Berdit (BU)



12:10-1:30

Lunch break



1:30-3:00

Sharon Street (NYU)
“Devotion without Faith”

    Commentator: Andrew Chignell (Princeton)

Chair: Coleman Solis (UC Berkeley)


 
3:20-4:30

Jordan MacKenzie (University of Virginia) and Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh)
“Free to Be You and Me: Devotion and Practical Fidelity in Personal Relationships”

    Commentator: Will Kanwischer (UNC)

Chair: Caroline Wall (BU)


 
4:50-6:20

Kimberly Rios (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
"Understanding academics' perceptions of religion research: The role of intellectual humility"

    Commentator: Brendan Kost (Florida State)

Chair: Jesse Preston (Warwick)
 





Friday, March 27


9:30-10:40

Catherine Rioux (Université Laval)
“Striving for Balance: Difficult Long-Term Goals and the Well-Rounded Life”

     Commentator: Kaitlyn Creasy (Cal State San Bernardino)

Chair: Lucio Maffei (BU)




11:00-12:30

Fiery Cushman (Harvard)
“Dangerous Thoughts”

    Commentator: Eric Aldieri (Bridgewater State)

Chair: Pol Pardini Gispert (BU)


 
12:30-1:45

Lunch break


 
1:45-3:15 

Jennifer Herdt (Yale)
“Idolatry and Devotion”

    Commentator: Rylie Johnson (Boston College)

Chair: Margret Sullivan (Cornell)




3:30-4:40

Yasemin Akis Yaman (Villanova)
"From Despair to Devotion: Kierkegaard on the Self"

    Commentator: Pengbo Liu (Bentley University) 

Chair: Kam McCondichie (Univ. of Pennsylvania)


 
5:00-6:30

David Shoemaker (Cornell)
"Hilarious Devotion”

    Commentator: Vikas Beniwal (University of Mississippi)

Chair: Sheryl Ross (UW La Cross)
 

 
6:30-7:30

Reception
 


 


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This project was made possible through the support of grant #62871 from the John Templeton Foundation. Additional funding was provided by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.

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