Robert Myles has compiled the programme for the 2012 Bible & Critical Theory Seminar. More details at Auckland Theology, Biblical Studies, et al. All Biblical Scholars, or card-carrying members of the Frankfurt School are warmly welcome, for the price of lunch at the Queen’s Ferry.
Bible & Critical Theory Seminar, Auckland
Queens Ferry Hotel, Vulcan Lane
1 & 2 September 2012
Saturday
10:00 – 10:10 Opening session
10:10 – 10:45 Elaine Wainwright, Of Borders, Bread, Dogs and Demons: Reading Matt 15:21-28 Ecologically
10:45 – 11:20 Rebecca Lindsay, Overthrowing Nineveh with Postcolonial Imagination
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:05 Kirsten Dawson, Gender and Violence in the Book of Job
12:05 – 12:40 Robert Myles, Homelessness, Neoliberal Ideology, and Jesus’ “Decision” to go Rogue
12:40 – 13:50 Lunch at QFH
13:50 – 14:25 Roland Boer, A Dead Spouse, A Vegetable Garden and a Cousin’s Field: On Private Property
14:25 – 15:00 Christina Petterson, Writing Death, Writing Life
15:00 – 15:35 Deane Galbraith, Interpellation Not Interpolation in Num. 13-14: The Non-Instrumental Ideology of Louis Althusser and Half-a-dozen Ways to Avoid a Death Sentence from Yahweh
15:35 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:20 Holly Randall-Moon, The Secular Contract: The British Monarchy and White Diasporic Sovereignty
16:20 – 16:55 Yael Klangwisan, Gift and The Song of Songs
16:55 – Late Drinks & dinner at QFH
Sunday
10:00 – 10:10 Opening session
10:10 – 10:45 Don Moffat, Ezra 9-10: A Split Text?
10:45 – 11:20 Caroline Blyth, ‘Whatever you needed…she had it’: Deconstructing the femme fatale in Judges 16 and Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:05 Julie Kelso, Irigaray’s Virginity
12:05 – 12:40 Niall McKay, A Political Reading of Luke 1:51-52 And 3:8-9 in the Light Of Ezekiel 17 – Inspired by John Howard Yoder and a Poststructural Intertextuality
12:40 – 13:50 Lunch at QFH
13:50 – 14:25 Debra MacDonald, John Gray’s Straw Dogs and Luke’s Satan: An Exploration into Human Nature
14:25 – 15:00 Mark Manolopoulos, Jesus on Wall Street: Overturning Temples, Tables, Empires
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 15:50 Sarah Curtis, Considering the presentation of Magdalene by Luke and John: Neither fetish nor phallic but feminine
15:50 – 16:25 Tim Stanley, What Is This Strange Technological Thing Called the Bible?
16:25 – 16:35 Closing session
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