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Meeting Program Units

2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Latino/a/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For 2024, we seek proposals for three sessions. Alongside multiple AAR and SBL units, we will host two sessions that consider the impact and influence of the work of the late queer performance theorist José Esteban Muñoz on the study of religion and sexuality, especially since 2024 is the 25th anniversary of the publication of Disidentifications. We are inviting panelists for one session, and we are working alongside several units on an open call for an additional session. We welcome attention to any facet of Muñoz’s work. In biblical studies, we are particularly interested in the intersections of his thought with latinidades, gender, sexuality, island hermeneutics, the apocalypse, and the utopian. The second open session, co-sponsored with Poverty in the Biblical World and the AAR’s Liberation Theologies and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society program units, honors three leading figures of liberation theology who passed away last year: Enrique Dussel, George/Jorge Pixley, and Franz Hinkelammert. We invite proposals that engage their intellectual legacies, especially by considering their impact on contemporary religious thought and biblical interpretation; the relevance of their ideas for addressing current social and economic crises; intersections between theology, philosophy, and biblical studies in their work; comparative analyses of their contributions and methodologies; and interpretations of scriptural texts that employ their thought to examine the texts’ economic and political dimensions and implications. Finally, we welcome papers for an open session on general topics in Latina/o/e and Latin American biblical interpretation, especially in papers that examine the uses of the Bible in Latina/o/e and Latin American communities, with particular attention to women’s reading practices, reading practices in migrant communities, and bilingual reading practices.

Program Unit Chairs

Gilberto A. Ruiz
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

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