In Boston, Massachusetts!
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Cheers and Robin Williams Memorial are close by
Shared route
thursday
https://maps.app.goo.gl/d1HTptFE8VVdmCME930 mins walk
Friday noon
12:30 cheers bar
good will hunting bench
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hqCf7uJswPsyxwgu8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JVipt3SjqiUsAp3r5
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3:15p arrive to Alamo Drafthouse
3:45 film
5:45 leave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QyskrzQsoe2CMhBE6
6:15ish back on campus
7:30 film screening
Cheers Bar / Good will hunting bench
Good Will Hunting bar
Saturday night
Grolier Poetry Store
Sunday
sunday
noon L Street Tavern
go home
Thursday, May 29 | |||||||
Afternoon | Boston tours for those interested | ||||||
4:30p | BU Castle | Registration; Wine and cheese reception | |||||
5:30p | BU Castle | Dinner with opening remarks by Dean Bryan Stone | |||||
7:30p | CAS B12 | Film Screening: Mass (2021), with discussion following moderated by John Lyden | |||||
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WoZh3MuvEYpEReyg7 | |||||||
Friday, May 30 | |||||||
8:00a | STH | Registration; Coffee, fruit, pastries | |||||
8:30-10:15a | CAS B12 | Plenary Session #1 – Simulating Religious Violence (2024) | |||||
Screening of Simulating Religious Violence followed by conversation with the filmmakers and researchers | |||||||
10:15-10:30a | STH | Break – Coffee, Fruit, Pastries | |||||
10:30a-12:00p | First Presentation Block | ||||||
CAS 211 | Concurrent Paper Session 1a: Reflections on Systemic Violence
Josh Neuberger (moderator) |
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Kendall Doty (Boston University School of Theology, U.S.), “Whose Violence Counts? A Critique of the 2024 Film Simulating Religious Violence” | |||||||
Dohyung Cha (Boston University School of Theology, U.S.), “A Meta-Future Crafter: MLK Jr. as an Applied Psychologist in Selma (2014)” | |||||||
Javier Fernandez (California State University, Long Beach, U.S.), “‘Ohana’ Means Some Get Left Behind: An Examination of Displacement, Post-Colonialism, and Religious Syncretism in Disney’s 2002 Lilo and Stitch” | |||||||
CAS 211 | Concurrent Paper Session 1b: AI and Altered Realities
Regan Hardeman (moderator) |
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Heather Bigley (BYUradio), “An articulation of God-anxiety in recent AI-films” | |||||||
Jaira Koh (Boston University School of Theology, U.S.), “Radicalising Theological Anthropology with Her” | |||||||
Anne-Marie Fowler (University of Toronto, Canada), “Origin and Creation Illuminate Violence to Time-lines: A Reading of James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence (2013)” | |||||||
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7:30p | CAS B12 | Film Screening: Troubled Water (with discussion following moderated by Gereon Terhorst and Douglas Finn) | |||||
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Saturday, May 31 | |||||||
8:00a | STH | Coffee, fruit, pastries | |||||
8:30-9:45a | CAS B12 | Plenary Session #2 – Reflections on Troubled Water (2008) | |||||
Gereon Terhorst (University of Muenster, Germany), “Holy Communion and Reconciliation: Liturgical Insights from Erik Poppe’s Troubled Water” | |||||||
Douglas Finn (Assumption University, U.S.), “Memory, evil, grace, and forgiveness in Erik Poppe’s 2008 film Troubled Water” *Get title* | |||||||
GET READY FOR PRESENTATION | |||||||
10:00-11:30a | Fourth Presentation Block | ||||||
CAS 224 | Concurrent Paper Session 4a: Religious Responses to Trauma and Violence Rachel Wagner (moderator) | ||||||
Eric Martin (Loyola Marymount University, U.S.), “Antifascist Critique & Theology in Costa-Gavras” | |||||||
Alex Setliff (Lycoming College, U.S.), “The Word of God in Martin Scorsese’s Silence“ | |||||||
James Thrall (Knox College, U.S.), “Ritual, Conflict, and Loss in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo)” | |||||||
CAS 224 | Concurrent Paper Session 4b: Saints and Heros
John Lyden (moderator) |
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Dennis Etzel, Jr. (Washburn University, U.S.), “‘The Hero We Need’: The Batman as a Modern Mythology and Christian Symbolism Moving from Conflict to Resolution with the Struggle between Hypermasculinity and Healing from Trauma” | |||||||
Fred Mason (University of New Brunswick, Canada), “The (Apo)Theosis of Rocky Balboa” | |||||||
Mariola Marczak (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland), Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe and Martyrdom | |||||||
11:30-1:00p | Lunch (on your own) | ||||||
1:00-2:30p | Fifth Presentation Block | ||||||
CAS 211 | Concurrent Paper Session 5a: Visions of Reconciliation
Joe Kickasola (moderator) |
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Hessam Abedini (University of Oregon, U.S.), “The Sacred Act of Burial: Death Rituals as Reconciliation from Firdausi’s Shahnameh to Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry (1997)” | |||||||
Irena Sever Globan (Catholic University of Croatia), “The Role of Female Characters in Constructing the World of Peace and Reconciliation” | |||||||
Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College, U.S.), “‘Worlding Worlds’: Worldbuilding Is Not Neutral” | |||||||
CAS 224 | Concurrent Paper Session 5b: Buddhism and Hinduism
Kristian Petersen (moderator) |
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Kathy Lin (Georgetown University), “The Parable of the Gut-shot Deer: A Neo-Confucian and Buddho-Daoist Vision of Ecological Redemption in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist” | |||||||
Shankar Ramaswami (O.P. Jindal Global University, India), “Religion, Politics, and Nonviolence: Meanings of Dharma in Cinematic Retellings of the Ramayana“ | |||||||
Nikky Singh (Colby College) “When the Other is the Self: Religious Harmony and Religious Violence in Yash Chopra’s Dharmputra” | |||||||
2:30-3:00p | STH | Snack Break | |||||
3:00-4:30p | Sixth Presentation Block | ||||||
CAS 211 | Concurrent Paper Session 6a: Reconciliation and Sacrifice
Rebekah Neuberger (moderator) |
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Caralyn Ware (Iliff School of Theology/University of Colorado, U.S.), “Selfless Sacrifice: Moral Injury, Spiritual Violence, and Reconciliation in Avatar: The Last Airbender” | |||||||
John Lyden (University of Nebraska, Omaha, U.S.), “Killing Christ Again: Film Violence and the Function of Sacrifice” | |||||||
CAS 224 | Concurrent Paper Session 6b: Religion and the Secular
TBD (moderator) |
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Mohammed Mehdi Kimiagari (Brown University, U.S.), “Affective Nexus of the Sacred/Secular: The Cinematic Screen and the Reconfiguration of the Immanent Frame” | |||||||
Kianna Mahony (Harvard Divinity School, U.S.), “The Practice of Crafting Meaning and Morality in the Secular Community by Reflecting on Movies” | |||||||
Henry Shiu (Emmanuel College of Victoria University – University of Toronto, Canada), “Breaking the Hell’s Gate: Exploring Post-Secularism, Feminism, Religious and Cultural Tensions in The Last Dance” | |||||||
4:30p | STH | Concluding words and farewell |
Go to grolier, then Brattle?
Shared route
From The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 to Grolier Poetry Book Shop via Brattle St and Massachusetts Ave.
7 min (0.3 mi)
To see this route visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/nWfJqKAVyd3hdvSg8?g_st=ac
Sunday,
Fenway park?
Flight leaves at405
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Alamo Drafthouse Film
https://drafthouse.com/boston
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/DPjsGukw6QqHQzkq8
The Brattle Theatre
Even if you don’t recognize any title on this arthouse theater’s schedule, you’ll certainly leave entertained—no matter what early-aughts indie or spine-chilling silent film is on the big screen. (Nosferatu circa 1922, anyone?)
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, brattlefilm.org.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/aNF5HjmVHiSjv4e97
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Fresh off a $15 million makeover, this Brookline institution balances sleek upgrades with its cherished community vibe. New hits, cult faves, and 70 mm showings still grace its screens.
290 Harvard St., Brookline, coolidge.org.
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https://www.somervilletheatre.com/
Sunday morning
good bye, Boston!