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

2016 AAR Annual Meeting Videos - San Antonio

On YouTube, watch these eleven videos recorded at the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. We are in the process of posting audio files from these videos on SoundCloud.

2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A19-100 Roundtable on Religion, Race, and the 2016 Elections
Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, Responding
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A19-144 Plenary Panel: Love and Hate in American Religion
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University
Mayra Rivera, Harvard University
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A19-208 Reclaiming the Radical Revolutionary: Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of Obery Hendricks' The Politics of Jesus
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL
Nyasha Junior, Temple University
Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
Keri Day, Brite Divinity School
Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University
Obery M. Hendricks, Columbia University, Responding
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A19-400 Presidential Address: Serene Jones: Revolutionary Love
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A20-150 Plenary Address: Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University
Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A20-228 Revolutions of Love: The Politics and Flesh of Religion
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Elaine Padilla, New York Theological Seminary
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
Catherine Keller, Drew University, Responding
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A20-250 Fatemeh Keshavarz: Unsilencing the Sacred: Poetic Conversations with the Divine
American Lectures in the History of Religions
Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A21-146 Plenary Address: Julián Castro
Julián Castro, San Antonio, TX
Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A21-230 Figures, Debates, and Themes of Evasion: Engaging West's Neglected Contribution to the Pragmatist Canon
Kevin Wolfe, Carleton College
Clifton Granby, University of Memphis
Julius Crump, University of Chicago
Xavier Pickett, Princeton Theological Seminary
Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A21-314 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Critical Appraisals of Love as a Civic Value
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
David P. Gushee, Mercer University
Arvind Sharma, McGill University
Mara Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
   
2016 Annual Meeting Videos San Antonio A21-403 Plenary Address: William Barber
William Barber, NAACP of North Carolina
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding