Sunday, September 9, 2012
Welcome (7:30-7:45 pm)
- Eric Meyers, (Duke University)
- Laurie Patton, Dean of Arts and Sciences, (Duke University)
Session 1 (7:45-9:00 pm): The Bible and Presidential Politics
- Chair: Eric Meyers (Duke University)
- Jacques Berlinerblau (Georgetown University): "The Bible in the Presidential Elections of 2012, 2008, 2004 and the Collapse of American Secularism"
Monday, September 10, 2012
Session 2 (9:00 am-12:15 pm): The Bible and Popular Culture
- Chair: Mark Chancey (Southern Methodist University)
- Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa): “Then as Now: Old Testament Epics and American Identity”
- David W. Stowe (Michigan State University): "Babylon Revisited: Psalm 137 as America's First Protest Song"
Break
Session 2, continued
- David Morgan (Duke University): "The Bible as Image in American Visual Culture"
- Rubén R. Dupertuis (Trinity University): “Translating the Bible into Pictures: Comic-Book Bibles and the Politics of Interpretation”
Lunch (12:30-1:30 pm)
Session 3 (1:40-3:00 pm) The Bible and America’s Founding Era
- Chair: Carol Meyers (Duke University)
- John Fea (Messiah College): "Does America Have a Biblical Heritage?"
- Shalom Goldman (Duke University): “God’s American Israel: Hebrew, the Bible and the American Imagination”
Break (3:00-3:30 pm)
Session 4 (3:30-5:00 pm) The Bible and Middle East Policy
- Chair: Eric Meyers (Duke University)
- Yaakov Ariel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Biblical Imagery and Political Action: the Roots of Christian Support for Zionism and Israel”
- Mordecai Inbari (University of North Carolina, Pembroke): “Zionism, Bible, and the Messianic Crisis of the West Bank Settlements”
Reception (5:00-5:45 pm)
Session 5 (7:30-9:30 pm) The Bible and Public Schools
- Chair: Shalom Goldman (Duke University)
- Charles Haynes (First Amendment Center): “Battling over the Bible in Public Schools: Is Common Ground Possible?”
- Melissa Rogers (Wake Forest Center for Religion & Public Affairs): “‘Rightly Dividing the First Amendment? An Evaluation of Recent Decisions regarding the Bible and Public Schools”
- Mark Chancey (Southern Methodist University): "The Good Book as Textbook in Historical Perspective"