2024 IARPT Conference: Manitou Springs

2024 IARPT Conference: June 17-20

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Learning, Teaching, and Inquiry: Naturalist Theories of Learning in Religion and Beyond

Place: Manitou Springs, Colorado
Dates: June 17-20, 2024
Program Chairs: Brandon Daniel-Hughes and Scot Yoder
Location: Community Congregational Church of Manitou Springs
Plenary Lecturers: Douglas R. Anderson, Wesley J. Wildman, and Nathaniel F. Barrett

The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (IARPT) is pleased to announce its 2024 meeting, which will be held at the Community Congregational Church in Manitou Springs, Colorado on June 17-20, 2024. The theme of the meeting is Learning, Teaching, and Inquiry: Naturalist Theories of Learning in Religion and Beyond. Keynote and plenary speakers include Douglas Anderson, Wesley Wildman, and Nathaniel Barrett.  Continue reading 2024 IARPT Conference: Manitou Springs

AJTP to Host a Panel on Wildman at AAR

Each year, IARPT’s journal, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, hosts a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. This year, the AJTP will be hosting a panel on a recently published volume celebrating the work of Wesley J. Wildman. The title of the volume is Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Approaches to Wesley J. Wildman (SUNY Press, 2021), edited by F. LeRon Shults and Robert C. Neville.

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2023 IARPT Conference: Berlin

IARPT Annual Conference

June 1215, 2023  · Katholische Akademie Berlin

Borders and Boundaries

The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (IARPT) is pleased to announce its 2023 international meeting, which will be held at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin on June 12-15 2023. The theme of the meeting is borders and boundaries. Keynote and plenary speakers include Sigurd Bergmann, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Terrence Deacon, John Thatamanil, Robert Yelle, Marcia Pally, Matthew Bagger, and Randall Auxier. Continue reading 2023 IARPT Conference: Berlin

William Hart to Give 2022 AJTP Lecture at AAR

Each year, IARPT’s journal, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, hosts a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. We are pleased to announce that William David Hart will be this year’s speaker. The title of his lecture is “Sense and Sensibility: IARPT’s Existential Orientations.”

William David Hart (PhD, Princeton, 1994) is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College. He received his PhD in Religion, Ethics, and Politics (philosophy of religion) from Princeton University where he studied with Cornel West and Jeffrey Stout. Under the supervision of his thesis advisor Linell Cady, he received an MA in Religious Studies from Arizona State University (1988). Hart received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona (1979) where he double majored in history and political science. Prior entering academic life full time, Hart was a professional firefighter in the Phoenix Fire Department, a steward of the local branch of the International Firefighters Union, and an organizer for the Central Arizona Labor Council. He is the author of The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse (Lexington 2020); Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion (Palgrave 2011); Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Palgrave 2008); and Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge 2000).  His research interests include black studies, social theory, philosophy of race, American philosophy, and the intersections of religion, ethics, and politics.

The 2022 annual meeting of the AAR will take place November 19-22 in Denver, Colorado. Professor Hart will give his lecture on Sunday evening. All are welcome.

2022 IARPT Conference: June 20-23, 2022

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Atheisms, Atheologies, Naturalistic Theologies, and Religious Naturalisms

Place: University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
Dates: June 20-23, 2022
Program Chairs: Dan Ott, LeRon Shults, and Demian Wheeler
Local Hosts: Jim McLachlan and Bob King
Intellectual Autobiography: Walter Gulick
Plenary Addresses: Carol Wayne White, John Shook, Nancy Frankenberry and Wesley Wildman

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Zoom IARPT Conference: June 15-17

2021 Online IARPT Conference

American Immanence

Political Theology and the Powers of Democracy:
American Thought for the Anthropocene

Place: Online (Zoom)
Dates: June 15-17, 2021
Program Chairs: Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts
Intellectual Autobiography: Wesley Wildman
Keynote Address: William Connolly

NOTE: DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE 2021 IARPT PROGRAM WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE. ZOOM INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED WITH CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS.

REGISTER HERE

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We Stand in Solidarity

WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY
June 2, 2020
 
The Board of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought is heartbroken and outraged at the cruel and unnecessary death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis several days ago. We stand with the African American community and all communities of color in mourning the death of Mr. Floyd, and countless others simply because of the color of their skin.
 
We also call on people of all races, ethnic backgrounds, and faiths to speak up now against the poisonous persistence of racism that is truly the shame of our nation. Like the rising tide of antisemitism, racism is a virus that spreads with passive acceptance. We will not stand idly by.
 

IARPT Conference Postponed to 2021

April 1, 2020

To All IARPT Members and Affiliates:

As many of you may have guessed, we will not be meeting in St. Paul this June 15-19. Due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, there will be no IARPT 2020. However, the Board has made the decision to move the program to June 14-18, 2021 in St. Paul, Minnesota. After a lot of hard work, Co-Chairs Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts have put together a splendid program that will be just as fresh and relevant fourteen months from now. As Demian Wheeler points out, “we’ll still be living in the Anthropocene in 2021!” Mike Hogue’s book will be every bit as urgent a year from now, and William Connolly has tentatively committed to moving his keynote address to 2021. Andrew and Austin may tweak the program a little, but they will honor the acceptances they have recently sent out. If your paper proposal or panel will change, please be in touch with Andrew and Austin. And I’m so pleased to tell you that we will once again be in the good hands of our local hosts in the Twin Cities, Bill Hart and Demian Wheeler. I want to thank them all—Andrew and Austin, Bill and Demian—for the thoughtfulness and dedication they have put into every detail of planning. And for their willingness to do it all again!

This June’s Board of Governors meeting and Business Meeting Thursday were to be my last before turning it over to the next President, Michael Raposa. Rest assured that I am committed to providing continuity in leadership and will work with Michael (and the Board, which is due for some turnover) through the summer. He is a quick study, anyway.

IARPT runs so smoothly because of the hard work, trustworthiness, and administrative talent of our Treasurer, Dan Ott. I want to take a moment and say Thank You Dan! We are glad to see that Monmouth College recognizes your skills, too, and has appointed you Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives. Dan will be offering those who paid registration for 2020 either a postponement or a reimbursement, whichever you prefer. Please let him know.

I sincerely hope that each of you is finding ways to center yourself and those in your networks as we all struggle with multiple rapidly changing situations. I encourage you to prioritize your health right now—mental, physical, spiritual—individually and collectively.

Until we meet again, stay safe and healthy, and all my best!

Nancy

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John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, Dartmouth College
President, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (2016-2020)

IARPT Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Dear IARPT members:

One of the distinctive hallmarks of IARPT is the face-to-face fellowship and intellectual exchange we enjoy in remarkable settings. We do not wish to compromise any of that this year.

COVID-19 has presented a unique public health challenge that requires constant monitoring. Information about the spread of COVID-19, federal and state guidelines, and other factors beyond our control are evolving and surfacing at a breakneck pace right now.

In this environment, the Board of Governors of IARPT has made the decision to wait and see. Our conference is now three months away. We will make an assessment again in a few weeks, and then again on May 15 in the hope that circumstances will enable us to convene June 15-20, 2020 in Saint Paul. Some of you have already purchased airlines tickets, and others are waiting to hear or have already heard about scholarship assistance.  We are extending the deadline for applications for a Creighton Peden Scholarship until May 15.  You do not need to wait until then to make reservations since most airlines are currently displaying the kind of flexibility they should always show, making refunds or re-bookings available if cancellation is necessary.

In the meantime, Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts are putting together a stimulating program, and local hosts Bill Hart and Demian Wheeler have done an excellent job in lining up the venues in which we can comfortably talk, argue, shout, agree and disagree, eat and drink, be transported, and yes, sleep.  

Please check the website (iarpt.org) for further updates.

I encourage you all to remain vigilant, agile, and optimistic despite the unknowns associated with this pandemic.

Nancy Frankenberry for the Board of Governors

Nancy K. Frankenberry
John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, Dartmouth College
President, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (2016-2020)