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Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, & Queer Persons in the Profession
Charge: This committee recommends policies and good practices to assure the full access and academic freedom of LGBTIQ persons within the Academy and develops programs to enhance their status in the profession.
Composition: Up to five members.
Terms of Office: For appointments prior to 2011, three years, renewable once. After 2011, four years, non-renewable.
Current Members:
Melissa M. Wilcox (Chair) Rudy V. Busto Patrick S. Cheng Horace Griffin Laurel C. Schneider Aislinn Jones (Staff Liaison)
Upcoming Annual Meeting Events
Thank you for joining us at the 2010 Atlanta Annual Meeting! Please see below for a listing of the exciting events planned for our 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 19-22. We hope to see you there!
A19–100
Special Topics Forum: Beyond Identity Politics
Saturday — 9:00 am–11:30 am
Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Sponsored by the Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
How do queer people move beyond identity-based politics, and how can or should we do so? This panel brings together five scholars and activists to offer their perspectives on this theme.
Panelists:
Mari E. Castellanos, United Church of Christ
Amanullah De Sondy, University of Miami
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Sister Mora Lee D'Klined, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Sister Pat N. Leather, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
A19–115
Gay Men and Religion Group
Saturday — 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Scholars and Activists Talk Back: Responses to Mark Jordan’s Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Panelists:
Elizabeth Leung, Pacific School of Religion
James Mitulski, New Spirit Community Church, Berkeley, CA
Penny Nixon, Congregational Church of San Mateo
Sharon Groves, Human Rights Campaign
Randall Miller, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and Pacific School of Religion
Mark Jordan, Harvard University, Responding
Business Meeting:
J. Terry Todd, Drew University
A19–139
Special Topics Forum: LGBTIQ Mentoring Lunch
Saturday — 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Sponsored by the Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, Presiding
Panelists:
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Horace Griffin, Pacific School of Religion
W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary
Jennifer Harvey, Drake University
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual
Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College
Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion
Mark Jordan, Harvard University
Helene T. Russell, Christian Theological Seminary
Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary
Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida
Roger A. Sneed, Furman University
Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
Traci C. West, Drew University
Heather White, New College of Florida
A19–405
LGBTIQ Scholars/Scholars of LGBTIQ Studies Reception
Saturday — 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Cosponsored by the HAAS Foundation and the Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
Theme: LGBTIQ Scholars/Scholars of LGBTIQ Studies Reception
A20–137
Special Topics Forum: SWP, REM, and LGBTIQ Women’s Mentoring Lunch
Sunday — 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee; Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee, and the Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College, Presiding
Panelists:
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Rita Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual
Namsoon Kang, Brite Divinity School
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Nargis Virani, The New School
Traci C. West, Drew University
A20-267
Black Theology Group
Sunday — 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Theme: (In)Visible Lives: A Critical Conversation on Roger A. Sneed's Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Pamela Lightsey, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Roger A. Sneed's Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) is an exploration and analysis of the ways in which homosexuality is presented and misrepresented in black theological and cultural discourses. It is a challenge to black religious and cultural critics to rethink theological and cultural approaches to homosexuality in black life as those approaches often characterize homosexuality as a problem to be solved. Sneed found that the approaches in black theological and cultural discourse are often impoverished in that they fail to draw on the rich sources of black queer reflection. As such, the book draws on a range of black gay writers — from Essex Hemphill to J. L. King — in order to identify black gay men's literature as a rich source of theological and ethical reflection in order to point black religious scholarship toward an ethic of openness.
Panelists:
Ronald Neal, Wake Forest University
Patrick S. Cheng, Episcopal Divinity School
Margaret Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Center
Almeda Wright, Pfeiffer University
Responding:
Roger A. Sneed, Furman University
A20–275
Lesbian–Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religion and Disability Studies Group
Sunday — 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Theme: Lesbian-Feminisms in Conversation with Disability Studies
Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Julia Watts Belser, Missouri State University
Brides and Blemishes: Queering Women’s Disability in the Babylonian Talmud
Heike Peckruhn, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
Sensing Limitations and/in Constructive Body Theologies
Marion S. Grau, Graduate Theological Union
Redeeming Bodies: Cyborgs, Transhumanist Fantasies, Disability, and the Ends of Embodiment
Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Responding
A20–319
Gay Men and Religion Group
Sunday — 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Theme: Slippery Texts/Queer Hermeneutics
W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Christopher Ashley, Union Theological Seminary
Practices of Discernment and Prophecy in Angels in America
Devan Hite, Chicago Theological Seminary
“That They Might Have Joy”: Toward a Postheteronormative, Gay Mormon Heremeneutic
Karen Bray, Drew University
Don’t Cry for Me Walter Brueggemann: Camp as Queer Lament
Catherine Roach, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Responding
A21–1
Committee Meetings
Monday — 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Theme: Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Task Force Meeting
Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, Presiding
A21–116
Gay Men and Religion Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Monday — 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Queer Eclipses: The Future of Gendered Sexual Identities in the Study of Religion
Yvonne Zimmerman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, Presiding
Thelathia Young, Emory University, Sara Rosenau, Drew University, and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology
Intersectional Bodies: Disrupting Queerness in Religious Discourse
John Howell, University of Chicago
Stonewalled: Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Rhetorical Violence in the Gay Generation Gap
E. L. Kornegay, Chicago Theological Seminary
Baldwin on Top: Towards a Heteroanomalous Queer Calculus
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, and Patrick S. Cheng, Episcopal Divinity School, Responding
A21–315
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Monday — 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Theme: Coming Home: LGBTQ Asian Americans and Religious Communities
Devin Singh, Yale University, Presiding
Panelists:
Michael Sepidoza Campos, Graduate Theological Union
Elizabeth Leung, Pacific School of Religion
Gina Masequesmay, California State University, Northridge
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary
Patrick S. Cheng, Episcopal Divinity School, Responding
A21–324
Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Monday — 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Theme: Borderlands and Lesbian Nation: Sacred Space?
Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University and California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Kathleen Douglass, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
Vibrating Spaces: Transformational Relating in Borderland Space
An Yountae, Drew University
Amor Fronterizo y el Renacimiento de la Tierra Madre: Dialectics of Love in the Borderland/Homeland
Margaret Robinson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Your Borders are Not My Boundaries: A Fence-sitting Halfbreed Reads La Frontera
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
Must I be a Lesbian Feminist?: Borderlands as the Si(gh)te for a Queer Mestizo
Business Meeting:
Yvonne Zimmerman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
A21–401
Films
Monday — 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Theme: We Were Here: Voices from the AIDS Years in San Francisco
Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, Presiding
Cosponsored by the HAAS Foundation and Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
Opportunities
Job descriptions, calls for papers/proposals, and conference information relevant to LGBTIQ Studies in religion will be posted in this section when they come up. Have a story or idea you'd like to share, or a question about the committee? Please e-mail any of the members listed above, or use the e-mail form at the bottom of this page.
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation
Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group
Contact the Members of the LGBTIQ Committee
