Events

2020 Annual Meeting

Your AAR staff continues to work toward holding the Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 21-24, 2020. We are aware of the uncertainty and contradictory projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic and with health and safety as a priority, we will continue monitoring the guidance of governments and health experts as we plan and make decisions. Should any changes need to be made related to the 2020 Annual Meeting, we will promptly notify you.

2020 Regional Meetings

Open Registration:

All remaining regional meetings for 2020 have been canceled

2007 Leadership Workshop

Leadership Workshop: The Religion Major and Liberal Education

Date: Friday, November 16, 2006, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Where: San Diego, California

Amid changing global and academic contexts, what is the nature and role of the religion major? What are its goals, and how do they relate to the goals of a liberal education? How do we know if we are succeeding in meeting these goals? This workshop brought together a distinguished group of experts to lead a day-long, interactive discussion of the religion major. Through plenaries, panels, and breakout sessions, participants explored and shared challenges, best practices, success stories, and failures. The workshop is part of an eighteen month-long joint AAR/Teagle Foundation project to study the religion major.

Leaders and Panelists included:

  • Richard Carp, Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University
  • Dena Pence, Executive Director of the Wabash Center
  • Stephen Prothero, Chair of Religious Studies, Boston University, and author of Religious Literacy
  • Timothy Renick, Chair of Religious Studies, Georgia State University, and principal investigator for the AAR/Teagle
  • initiative on the Religion Major and Liberal Arts
  • Working Group Members, AAR/Teagle initiative on the Religion Major and Liberal Arts

Agenda:

  • Introduction: Why Religious Studies?
  • Establishing the Religious Studies Major: Stories from the Trenches (interactive session)
  • Religious Studies Across the Curriculum: Th e Interdisciplinary Nature of the Major (panel discussion)
  • Lunch
  • The Major in Diff erent Institutional Contexts/Diff erent Models for the Major (interactive session)
  • What Has Worked? What Has Not? (panel discussion followed by a break-out session)
  • Summary: What Have We Learned—as a Discipline and Today?

The workshop was of benefit to a range of participants: faculty, administrators, and graduate students. The goal was to bring a diverse group of AAR members together in a lively and open discussion about what it means to major in religion, what our field contributes (and should contribute) to the education of our students, and how we can be better at what we do.