SCHEDULE
Tuesday
8.00 – Breakfast
9.00 – Welcoming: Néstor Míguez (ISEDET), Nicolás Panotto and Joseph Duggan (PN)
(GEMRIP)
Memorial panel: Néstor Míguez, John Hawley, Leopoldo Cervantes-Ortiz and Hugo Córdova Quero
10.30 – Néstor Míguez, “Socio-political context”
11.15 – John Hawley, “Grendel in the Cathedral: Queer Theology for Earth-Rim-Walkers”
12.30 – Lunch
14.0 – Presentations
• Leopoldo Cervantes-Ortiz, “Marcella Althaus-Reid: a post-modern, post-colonial and “post-liberation” theology” (on line from México)
• Vincent Cervantes, “Decolonizing Grace and Incarnation”
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Presentations
• Hugo Cordova Quero, “Coming of Age: A (Post) Colonial and Queer Contribution Towards the Deconstruction of the Notion of Minority”
• Adrian Emmanuel Hernandez-Acosta, “Queer Holiness and Queer Futurity”
19.00 – Dinner
Wednesday
8.00 – Breakfast
9.00 – Presentations
• Dan González Ortega, “Judges 19- An indecent re-reading based on a paradigmatic case in Mexico” (on line from México)
• Jorge Aquino, “Pussy Riot: The Indecent Theology Behind the New Russian Revolution”
10.30 – Break
11.00 – Presentations
• Daniel Jones, “Civil matrimony and religious blessing for same-sex couples in contemporary Argentina”.
• André S. Musskopf, “Her own received her not”. On the risk of colonizing the decolonized and the material conditions of persisting
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – Group work. Conclusions
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Presentations
• Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, “Perversion, ethics, and creative disregard: indecency as the virtue to ethical perversion” (on line from United States)
• Gabriela González Ortuño, “Christian practice and thought from the place of un-being” (on line from México)
19.00 – Dinner
Thursday
8.00 – Breakfast
9.00 – Presentations
• Nicolás Panotto, “Perverting the foundations: epistemological challenges to the “corporeality” of Latin American theologies. Postcolonial and political perspectives.”
• Michael McLaughlin, “Marcella Althaus-Reid and Jean-Luc Marion on Erotic Desire and Love: A Brief Encounter”
10.30 – Break
11.00 – Presentations
• Emilce Cuda, “Identity as the search and creation of meaning through the discourse of the peoples.”
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – Group work. Conclusions
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Presentations
• Oscar Cabrera, “Postcolonial Reading of the Story of Bartimaeus. Contributions to the deconstruction of the Guatemalan evangelical model”
19.00 – Dinner
Friday
Activity at Universidad de San Martín – Round table of dialogue about Latin American Postcolonial/Decolonial theories
Note: Breakfast will be served at ISEDET at 8 am but meals will be off campus.
Saturday
City tour
Note: Breakfast will be served at ISEDET at 8 am but meals will be off campus.
Jason Craige Harris is a third-year master's candidate in Black Religion in the African Diaspora and a Marquand merit scholar at Yale Divinity School, where he was recently awarded the Mary Cady Tew Prize for exceptional ability in history and ethics. He earned a bachelor’s in religion and African-American studies from Wesleyan University and received the Giffin Prize for excellence in the Study of Religion, Spurrier Award for ethics, and an official citation for academic excellence issued by the 2009 Connecticut General Assembly. As a fellow at Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities and a recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Harris wrote a senior honors thesis analyzing theological anthropologies along political and racial fault lines in U.S. Evangelical history. His research and writing are principally concerned with black life, Christianity, (post)colonialism, violence, feminisms, critical social theory, and ultimately planetary flourishing. Concerns arising from the academic study of Africana religion, philosophy, and ethics particularly inform his inquiries. Through an interdisciplinary framework, he probes the systems of values that undergird dominant epistemological, rhetorical, cultural, and religious forms to determine to what extent, if at all, they conduce to robust conceptions of justice. With an eye toward contemporary social problems, he considers the religious strategies and visions that historically marginalized peoples have created to respond to conditions of living and being delimited by restrictive understandings of race, gender, religion, and nation. He is a general editor at the Journal of Postcolonial Networks, where, among other things, he helps to facilitate conversations on race and postcolonial/liberation theologies. As a Christian minister and budding public intellectual, Harris seeks and invites others into more holistic and attuned, less violent and constrained, ways of narrating the self and the divine.
Areas of Interest and Research:
African American Religious Studies
Africana Philosophy
African American Moral, Social, and Political Thought
African American Intellectual History
Liberation and Postcolonial (Christian) Thought
Philosophies of Liberation
Contemporary Religious Thought
Race, Gender, and American Christianities
Evangelicalisms and Pentecostalisms
Histories of Race Discourse in the Americas
(Christian) Social Ethics
Critical Social Theory/Social Philosophy
Theories of Race, Gender, and Power
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
He is deeply committed to a praxis in which dualities of mind/heart, mind/body, and emotions/thought are consistently challenged and replaced with integrated models of selfhood that cherish self-multiplicity - the point at which the postcolonial becomes self-consciously embodied. He also enjoy taking walks in the coolness of the day, singing, laughing, and writing poetically and theoretically on his lived experience, whatever helps to bring more beauty and justice into the world.
