Annual Meeting UpdateApproximately 302 professors, scholars, and students participated in the 2010 annual meeting of the SWCRS, held March 13-15 at the Marriott Hotel DFW Airport North. Although the total number of registrations were down about 15%, quality of the conference was high. Several members left survey comments indicating that 2010 was the best conference ever.
Professors James Kugel, Chair of the Institute for History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan, and Ann Taves, Virgil Cordano OFM Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies at UCSB, served as keynote speakers. A workshop for graduate students focused on information and advice for students of color who are considering the pursuit of doctoral studies in religion or theology. The workshop was sponsored by the Fund for Theological Education, the SWCRS, AAR-SW, and SBL-SW.
The program for the conference is available at this link.
E. Earle Ellis, 1926-2010
Edith Wyshogrod, 1930-2009
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At the annual SWCRS reception, outgoing president Jeffrey Bingham announced Dr. Michael Homan as the 2010-2011 Junior Scholar awardee. Homan, Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana, began his faculty work in 2001 at Xavier. He received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Hom
 "While many scholars, especially European Bible scholars in the 19th century, attributed the origins of social justice to the 8th century BCE biblical prophets, I have found many earlier documents in which deities are said to appoint leaders with the condition that they provide justice for society's disenfranchised."
Homan anticipates a future article, as well as a presentation at an annual ASOR meeting.
The Junior Scholar Grant program, as well as the John G. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award, are intitiatives of the SWCRS. Cash awards are given, with the funding provided by the SWCRS's institutional sponsors. For more information about these awards, see the Awards and Grants section of this site.
Donations to the SWCRSGifts to the commission provide important funds for annual meeting expenses, student and retiree discounts, special workshops, and the SWCRS awards programs. General donations, as well as those made in memory or in honor of somone, may be completed through our secure PayPal link.
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