Yup, and I lived! Our 6th annual Research in Religious Studies Conference is not history, and I think it was a rousing success. This was actually a hellish year, with depressing and exhausting university politics, odd oddities oddly occurring throughout the year, a teaching schedule that always the the wrong thing happening at the wrong time, and my first year as Dept. Chair. In the end, though, the meeting came together rather well.
Matthew and Bev did a lot of work, and without them I would be a blubbering blob of beer soaked protoplasm. Well, a bigger one.
There were no real emergencies that came up during the meeting, and I think the quality of the papers was at least as high as previous year. With the inevitable cancellations, there were 44 papers or so delivered.
Rather sadly, there were very few biblical studies papers. Since I’m a biblical kind of guy, I suppose it is my fault, but I was not teaching any biblical courses this year. As far as Hebrew Bible specifically, we only got one paper, but it was an interesting one: on Obadiah and Edom from Tobias Blake who is at Notre Dame.
I also particularly enjoyed the papers on theodicy and post-Shoah thought.
Anyway, I’m proud as punch of all of my students who presented, and rather impressed that this conference has grown so well!
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