Columbia University Religion Graduate Students Association

Conference Schedule

Columbia University Department of Religion Graduate Students' Conference
Humble Body, Humble Mind: Selflessness, Lowliness, and the Religious


Friday, April 1, 2011, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Union Theological Seminary, Social Hall,
3041 Broadway (at 121st Street), New York, NY

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Humility and the Power of Prayer in Christian Monasticism
Professor Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

PANEL I: COMPARATIVE ETHICS
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Chris Kelley (Columbia University),
Finding Virtue in False Virtue: The Nature of Moral Motivation in Mahayana Buddhism

Elizabeth Urban (University of Chicago),
Humility in Early Islam: Constructing Values and Transforming Society

Patrick Cousins (Syracuse University),
There Sits the Old Man in All His Homeliness: Humility and Protest in Thomas Merton's True Self

Respondent: Professor Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)

LUNCH
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

PANEL II: EPISTEMIC HUMILITY
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Shelli M. Poe (University of Virginia),
Re-thinking and Re-locating Epistemic Humility with Friedrich Schleiermacher

Inseo Song (Princeton Theological Seminary),
The Late-medieval Understanding of 'Viator' and Luther's View of the Justified-Sinner

Kaitlin Magoon (University of Chicago),
'Go and Become Yourself the Writ': Self-Subverting Philosophical Instruction and Contemporary Religious Teaching

John Pittard (Yale University),
Faith and the Limits of Epistemic Humility

Respondent: Professor Wayne Proudfoot (Columbia University)

PANEL III: HUMILITY AND HUMILIATIONS-SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEWS
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Alexandria Frisch (New York University)
Worms, Rotting Flesh, and Falling Bowels: The Humbling Motif of the Disgusting Deaths of Kings in Early Jewish Literature

SueJeanne Koh (Duke Divinity School),
The Creation of a Kenotic Social Body: The Issue of Status in Phil. 2:6-11 and 1 Cor. 1-5

Stephen Johnson (Syracuse University),
Empowering Oppression: LGBT Gaudiya Vaishnava Interpretative Strategies

Andrew McDowell (Harvard University),
You Gotta Get Up to Get Down: Techniques of a Crushed Hindu Subject/Self

Respondent: Professor Courtney Bender (Columbia University)

RECEPTION
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM