AAR/SBL sessions with Asian and Asian American themes

Here are the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature sessions with Asian and Asian American foci. The meetings will be held in Washington, DC:


FRIDAY, NOV 17

7:30- 8:30 PM
AM17-128: Book session at Washington Convention Center
CC-Rm 149B
The Heart of Cross: A Postcolonial Christology by W. Anne Joh
Su Yon Pak (Union Theological Seminary), presiding
Panelists:
Rita Nakashima Brock-Director, Faith Voices
Serene Jones-Yale Divinity School
Eleazar Fernandez-United Theological Seminary
Rachel Bundang--Santa Clara University
Respondent: W. Anne Joh-Phillips Theological Seminary


SATURDAY, NOV 18

1-3:30 PM
A19-59: Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
CC-140A
Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Asian/Asian American Women Negotiating Power and Authority
http://aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/pbook.asp?ANum=A18-58&DayTime=&KeyWord=&B1=Submit#results
Min-Ah Cho, Emory University
Religion beneath Mother Tongues: Religious Practice and the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Nikky Singh, Colby College
Feticide in the Punjab and Fetus Imagery in Sikhism
Karen Yonemoto, University of Southern California
Progressive Politics, Conservative Practices: Re-thinking Gender in Asian American Church
K. Christine Pae, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Gender as an Analytical Tool of "Sin and Redemption": Women, Religious Fundamentalism, and Homosexuality in the Asian Pacific American Community
Responding:
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University


4-6:30 PM
S18-105: Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics Group
Room: 302 – CC
Theme: Asian and Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: Theory and Practice
Lai-Ling Ngan, Baylor University, Presiding
Il-Seung Chung, University of Sheffield
Whose Fault Is It Anyway?: Reading Esau’s Marriage from an Asian Perspective (30 min)
Rajkumar Boaz Johnson, North Park University Theological Seminary
Dalit Biblical Interpretation: A Paradigm Shift in Indian Christian Hermeneutics (30 min)
Archie Chi-Chung Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Critical Biblical Hermeneutics of Li Jung-fang in the Socio-Intellectual Context of China (30 min)
Seung-Ai Yang, University of Saint Thomas, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (40 min)


7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-124: Korean North American Systematic Theology/ ISAAC Groups
GH-Bridge Room: Arlington
http://aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/addmtg.asp?AMNum=AM18-124&KeyWord=&B1=Submit#results
Sang Hyun Lee, Presiding
1.ISAAC: Tim Tseng
2.. Discussions of Peter C. Phan, Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making,
Reviewer: Tim Lee (Brite Divinity/Texas Christian University)
3. Heup Young Kim, Christ and the Tao.
Reviewer: Kenneth Lee (California State University, Northridge)


SUNDAY, NOV 19

9:00 am - 11:30 am
S19-6: Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics Group
Room: 208A - CC
Theme: Panel Review of Jeffrey Kuan and Mary Foskett, eds., Ways of Being,
Ways of Reading: Constructing Asian-American Biblical Interpretation (Chalice, 2006)
Henry Rietz, Grinnell College, Presiding
Panelists:
Jeffrey Kuan, Pacific School of Religion
Seung-Ai Yang, University of Saint Thomas
Daniel Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary
Mary Foskett, Wake Forest University

1:00 -2:30 PM
A19-59: Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
CC-143C
http://aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/vCalendar.asp?ANum=A19-59
Joseph Cheah, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Intersection of Religious and Spiritual Practices in Hawaii
Wilburn Hansen, Stanford University
Shinto in the Hawaiian Diaspora: Economics Masquerading as Nationalism at a Pre-Pacific War Hawaiian Shrine
Regina Pfeiffer, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Colonial Conquest(s), Especially Hawaiian or Native American in Focus
Jenny Patten-Gargiulo, Graduate Theological Union
Hawaiian Kapa: Sewing Spirituality
Responding:
Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine
Henry W. Morisada Rietz, Grinnell College
Business Meeting:
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding


MONDAY, NOV 20

4:00 -6:30 pm
A20-113: Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Asian American Hermeneutics
CC-152A
http://aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/pbook.asp?ANum=A20-113&DayTime=&KeyWord=&B1=Submit#results
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Teaching “Difficult” Texts in Communities—Asian North American Scholars in Conversation
Panelists:
Frank Yamada, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, Baylor University
Faustino Cruz, Graduate Theological Union
Boyung Lee, Pacific School of Religion


7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-112: Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium
GH-Bridge Room: Arlington
http://aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/addmtg.asp?AMNum=AM20-112&KeyWord=&B1=Submit#results
7:00 Mary Foskett, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Theme: Biblical Studies in China: Three Perspectives
Panelists:
Archie Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sze-kar Wan, Andover Newton Theological School
Antoinette Wire, Graduate Theological Union
9:00 Business Session: ECBC members only
For additional information, contact Jeffrey Kuan at kjkuan@psr.edu.