This student-led interdisciplinary seminar brought together graduate and professional students and postdocs to discuss their works-in-progress on Immigration and Religion. Their research and findings will be discussed at this conference.
Conference Schedule:
Panel One: The Nation-State and Its Others
Nurlan Kabdylkhak: Russian imperial state vis-à-vis Muslim subjects
Elsa Costa: Early modern xenophobia in Spain
Perry Sweitzer: Relationship between religion and citizenship in the US
Panel Two: Islam and Representations of Belonging
Ehsan Sheikholharam Mashhadi: European spaces' attempted incorporation of Muslim identity
Iris Gilad: Missing the Middle East in women's art
Allison Wattenbarger: Trends in Palestinian liberation theology
Panel Three: Migrant Outreach and Contemporary American Protestantism
Joseph Roso: US evangelicals' attitudes towards immigration under Trump
Darwin Perry: Church support of immigrants experiencing incarceration
Andrew Carlins: Religion of immigrants to US
Panel Four: Theologies of Migration and Home
Joshua Strayhorn: Religion in black migration
Alberto La Rosa Rojas: Theology of home among migrants to the US
Eric Shin-fung Hung: How the migrant church became an indigenous church in Hong Kong