(Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are in the McBride Room of the Numen Lumen Pavilion)
Thursday, Feb.9
4:00: Welcome, Brian K. Pennington, Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society
4:15-5:15: Session 1: Apocalypse and Temporal Imagining
Amy Allocco, presider
- William Sherman (Stanford University), “Apocalypse, Again: Language and Repetition in a Qur’anic Imitation”
- Arun Chaudhuri (York University), “Hindu Nationalist Futures and the Perpetual Imagination of the End”
5:45-6:45: Keynote Address: David Cook (Rice University), “‘Every Time a Horn Goes, Another Replaces It’: Cyclicality and Conquest in Muslim Apocalypticism” (McKinnon Hall, Moseley Student Center)
7:00: Dinner (McKinnon Hall, Moseley Student Center)
Friday, Feb. 10
9:00-10:00 Session 2: Apocalypse and Social Cohesion
Pamela Winfield, presider
- Bob Royalty (Wabash College),“The Glorious Appearance Daily at 4:30 pm: Tensions and Contradictions in Contemporary Christian Apocalypticism”
- Robert Glenn Howard (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Apocalypse Failed?: Vernacular Authority in a New Age Religious Movement”
10:00-10:45: Coffee, Sponsored by Religious Studies Department
10:45-11:45: Session 3: Apocalypse and Gender in Popular Culture
Ariela Marcus-Sells, presider
- Megan Goodwin (Syracuse University), “Gendering the End Times: ‘Apocalypse, Apocalypse, We Caused It with Our Dumbness’”
- Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha), “The Shadow of the End: An Islamic Horror Film”
12-1:30: Lunch (Belk Pavilion 208)
1:30-2:30: Undergraduate Research Poster Session (Sacred Space, Numen Lumen Pavilion)
3:00-4:30: Session 4: Apocalypse as Contemporary Ideology
Tom Mould, presider
- Matthew Sutton (Washington State University), “Billy Graham’s End of Days: The Mainstreaming of Fundamentalist Apocalypticism”
- Jonathan Herman (Georgia State University), “Meet the New Age, Same As the Old Age: Vanishing Millenarianism in the Western Appropriation of Daoism”
6:00 Reception & Dinner: Home of Brian Pennington and Amy Allocco
Saturday, Feb. 11
9:00-10:00 Session 5: Apocalypse as Queer Unveiling
Evan Gatti, presider
- Lynn Huber (Elon University), “‘Pulling Down the Sky’: Queer Interpretation of Revelation and the Apocalypse of Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs”
- Kent Brintnall (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “The Politics of Revelation: Unveiling Negativity in the Work of Lee Edelman and Georges Bataille”
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-11:30: Concluding Analysis and Discussion
