I thought it might be helpful to provide a forum here where we can point out AAR/SBL panels that feature friends of the blog or are otherwise of interest to our audience, as well as plan things like room sharing, etc. For my part, I’m taking part in a panel on Negri’s The Labor of Job on Saturday morning from 9:00-11:30, over which Roland Boer will be presiding.
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An und für sich 
I will test aufs loyalties! … as i’ll also be in a 9-11.30am Sat panel, “Spinoza and Religion.” I’ll be talking about Spinoza and conversion. And i’ll also be in a 9-11.30 Sun panel on the _After the Postmodern and Postsecular_, with Anthony presiding. Brad will be a panelist, along with other luminaries.
I’ll be presenting at both AAR and SBL. At AAR, it will be on religion in Doctor Who as part of a wildcard session on religion in sci-fi:
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Sunday – 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Room: CC-2014
Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Science Fiction (SF) is the genre of limitless possible worlds with a unique ability to pose, examine, and suggest answers to the most profound questions and to envision transcendence beyond realist literature. Along with religion, SF is where large numbers of the American public go to explore the meanings and purposes of human existence. Why this is so has to do with the construction of SF narratives upon scientific facts about the world and spun through the inexhaustible possibilities of the human imagination. SF’s technique of “making strange” the world so that we can better see ourselves and our predicaments allows us to reflect on our most basic questions about what it means to be human. This session takes the genre, modes, themes and techniques of SF as launching points for examining religion through a critical idiom that asks similar questions and suggests alternatives to traditional understandings of religion.
Theme: Religion/Science/Fiction: Beyond the Final Frontier
Panelists:
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University
Susan L. Schwartz, Muhlenberg College
James McGrath, Butler University
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College
The one at SBL will be about the Mandaeans and their use of New Testament materials in one famous work:
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Aramaic Studies
11/21/2011
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Yerba Buena 11 – Marriott Marquis
Christian Brady, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
James F. McGrath, Butler University
The Satirical Use of Christian Material in the Mandaean Book of John (20 min)
Ah, so I’m on Sunday. Good to know.
Should we, I wonder, have a formal AUFS meetup at some designated time, as some blogs are wont to do?
I’ve suggested having the “bibliobloggers” get-together be a broader religion and theology bloggers’ get-together, in honor of AAR and SBL being together again. Sound like a good idea?