Conference Details
June 12-13, 2013
Wednesday June 12 |
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| 2:45 pm |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Tanenbaum 112 Dean Michael A. Fitts, Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| 3:00-4:15 pm |
Faith and Outsiders in Spanish America Tanenbaum 112 Kif Augustine-Adams, Brigham Young University Counting Chinese in a Catholic Country: The 1930 Mexican Census and Religious Difference Orlando Rivero-Valdés, University of Pittsburgh Afro-Cuban Religions and Brujería in Post-Colonial Cuba, 1898-1938 Commentators: TBA |
| 4:15-6:30 pm |
Keynote Address and Reception Clock Lounge Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University Faith and Property in African American History |
| 6:30 pm | Dinner for presenters and commentators |
Thursday June 13 |
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| 10:00-11:30 am |
Faith and Freedom in Nineteenth Century United States Tanenbaum 112 Abigail Cooper, University of Pennsylvania “A Mere Form”: Marriage Rites and Lived Religion in the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War Lucas Volkman, University of MissouriTurmoils and Temporalities: The Slavery Question and Church Property Disputes in Missouri Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Irvine Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion Commentators: William Novak, University of Michigan |
| 11:45-1:00 pm |
Faith and Colonialism in the Early Atlantic World Tanenbaum 112 Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, New York University Horizons of Conquest: Slaving, Taxation, and Natural Law in the Colonial Atlantic Ana Schwartz, University of Pennsylvania The Colony’s Two Bodies: Writing Law in Puritan New England, 1629-1641. Commentators: Richard Ross, University of Illinois |
| 1:00-2:30 pm |
Lunch Courtyard (Clock Lounge in inclement weather) |
| 2:30-4:00 pm |
Faith and Citizenship in a Secular Polity Tanenbaum 112 Winston Bowman, Brandeis University A Civil Death: Mormon Disenfranchisement in the Mountain West Kellen Funk, Princeton Univeristy “This Stone Which I Erect Shall Be a House of God”: Disestablishment and Religious Corporations in New York, 1784-1854 Jeffrey Perry, Purdue University “For the Peace of Society”: Baptist Church Discipline and Legalities in Early Kentucky Commentators: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:15-5:30 pm |
Faith and Government in Modern America Tanenbaum 112 Kathleen Holscher, University of Minnesota School Prayer, Bible Reading, and the Catholic Vocabulary of Religious Freedom in Mid-Century America Ronit Stahl, University of Michigan Basic Training: The Unintentional Consequences of the Education Requirements for Military Chaplains Commentators: Barbara Young Welke, University of Minnesota |
| 5:30 pm |
Closing Reception Clock Lounge |
| 6:00 pm |
Wrap Up Clock Lounge Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Richard Ross, University of Illinois |