NEWS AND EVENTS

May 2009 Graduates

Congratulations to the following undergraduates who will be graduating with honors:

With High Distinction -- Lindsay Hocker and Ashley Updegraff (and Honors)
With Distinction and Honors in the Major -- Shannon Boshart and Savannah Smith
With Honors in the Major -- Michael Greenlee and Heidi Quenzer

Congratulations to our new PhDs:

Daniel Boscaljon (David Klemm chair)
Eric Dickman (David Klemm chair)
Denise Kettering (Ray Mentzer chair)
Christopher Myers (David Klemm chair)
Greg Wilkinson (Janine Sawada chair)

Congratulations to our new MAs:

Martha Boatright
Sarah Dees
Daniel Pschaida

Faculty Recognition

Nine members of the Religious Studies faculty along with four graduate teaching assistants and one adjunct professor were recognized in the Wednesday, May 6 edition of the Daily Iowan for making a positive difference the lives of the graduating class of 2009.

Those mentioned are Diana Fritz-Cates, Jay Holstein, Doug Jones, Ralph Keen, David Klemm, Rich McCarty, Nancy Menning, Raymond Mentzer, Michelene Pesantubbee, Mari Rethelyi, Howard Rhodes, Ahmed Souaiaia, Richard Turner, and Matthew Wilhite. (Bolded names had 10 or more recognitions)

STUDENT AWARDS

We congratulate the following students awardees and will be honored at our upcoming Adler Student Awards Luncheon to be held on May 11:

Undergraduate Majors

Graduate Students

Ballard Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowships

Nathan Eric Dickman (2008-09)
Denise Kettering (2008-09)

David Howlett (2009-10)
L. Calvin Lane (2009-10)

Congratulations to Shannon Boshart, Lindsay Hocker, and Lindsey Simon who have been invited this spring to accept membership in Phi Beta Kappa!

David Howlett recently had an article published in the Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 40 (2007) titled "The Death and Resurrection of the RLDS Zion: A Case Study in "Failed Prophecy," 1930-70" (pp.112-31).

AlUMNI NEWS

Congratulations to Richard Lariviere (B.A. 1972 in History of Religions) who has been named the next President at the University of Oregon! http://newpres.uoregon.edu/

Tom Johnson (Ph.D. 1987) has published a new book: as volume 1 of the Global Issues Series from the World Evangelical Alliance titled "Human Rights: A Christian Primer" (Bonn: VKW, 2008). The book was publicly presented at the WEA General Assembly in Thailand in October and is now being distributed by Geniale Buecher and Amazon.com. You can contact Tom at johnson.thomas.k@gmail.com

SEARCH NEWS

The Department of Religious Studies pleased to announce that Melissa Anne-Marie Curley has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, to begin next August.

Fourth Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts: Reading the Book of Nature was held April 2-4, 2009

Click for the Conference Schedule

http://rlaconference.blogspot.com/

Thursday Keynote Address:
Michael Zimmerman: Singularity Post Humanism & The End of Human/Nature

Friday Keynote Address:
David Jasper: In the World Though not Of It: The Ascetic Tradition and the Natural World

The Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts attracts scholars at all levels with interests in this interdisciplinary field of exploration.  This year’s topic—Reading the Book of Nature—focuses on the many ways that artists and thinkers from all traditions interpret the meaning and significance of human emplacement in the “natural” world.   The conference will feature two plenary addresses, a set of papers by senior scholars from the United States and Europe, and multiple sessions of papers by faculty and graduate students from the University of Iowa and other leading institutions.  Panels sessions will include: 1) Reading the Book of Nature in Religion and Literature, 2) Living Well on the Earth: Ethics and Examples of Human Flourishing, 3) Redefining “Nature”: Scientific and Cultural Expansions, 4) Natural Theology and the Integrity of Life, 5) Depicting Nature in Art and Literature, 6) Relations between Mythic Floods and the Flood of 2008: Interpreting “Sustainability” on the River’s Edge, and 7)  Dwelling in a World of Our Own Remaking: Philosophical Confrontations with Nature.

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