American Society of Church History

The ASCH information desk will be located at the San Juan Foyer in the Westin Seattle.

• Hours:
  Thursday, January 6, 1:00–4:30 p.m.
  Friday and Saturday, January 7 and 8, 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 6

• 3:00–4:30 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room. Editorial Board meeting
  
  
• 4:30–6:00 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room. Executive Committee meeting
  
  
• 7:30–9:00 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room. Council meeting

Friday, January 7

• 7:30–9:00 a.m. Westin, St. Helens Room. Breakfast for Women in Theology and Church History
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 1. Conversion and Spiritual Life in Late Ancient and Medieval Christianity: The Evidence of Material Culture
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 2. The Reformation of Suffering in Early Modern Europe
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Blakely Room. Session 3. Protestant Responses to Political Issues in the 1970s
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Cascade Ballroom II. Session 4. An American Jesus: The Books of Stephen Prothero and Richard Wightman Fox
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 5. Religion by Region: The Project
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Vashon Room I. Session 6. Studies in the History of Theology
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Stuart Room. Session 7. Walking Tour of Seattle Houses of Worship
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room I. Session 8. Naïveté, Credulity, and Critical Thinking in Ancient and Medieval Christian History
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 9, joint with the Society for Austrian Habsburg History. Sermons, Songs, and Social Networks: Confessional Identities in Early Modern Central Europe
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 10, joint with the Pietism Studies Group. Pietism and New Worlds
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 11. Chinese Incarnations: Christianity in Modern China
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Blakely Room. Session 12. Evangelicalism and Orthodoxy in Imperial Russia
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Adams Room. Session 13. Blood and Wounds: The Passion of Christ, Past and Present
  
  
• 5:00–6:45 p.m. Westin, Cascade Ballroom II. Session 14. Distinguished Career Award: Caroline Walker Bynum

Saturday, January 8

• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 15, joint with the AHA. Roundtable: Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and American Culture: Bicentennial Perspectives
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 16. Honoring the Career of David Edwin Harrell
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 17. Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, St. Helens Room. Session 18. Three Centuries of Studying Jonathan Edwards: From Samuel Hopkins to Ken Minkema
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Olympic Room. Session 19. Elizabeth Clark’s History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 20. Telling the Christian Story Outside the Ivory Tower: Popular Histories of Christianity for the Third Millennium
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room I. Session 21. Beyond Byzantium: Christian Communities of the Late Antique and Early Islamic Near East
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 22, joint with the Society for Austrian Habsburg History. Before and after Hus: Law, Politics, and the Church in Late Medieval Bohemia
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 23. Recent Western Canada
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 24. David Hempton’s An Empire of the Spirit: The Rise of Methodism in a New World Order, 1730–1880
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, Blakely Room. Session 25. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary Christianity: Japan and the United States
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Westin, St. Helens Room. Session 26. Worm Holes or Parallel Universes? Constructions and Reconstructions of Sacred Space
  
  
• 4:45–5:45 p.m. Westin, Cascade Ballroom I. Business meeting
  
  
• 5:45–6:45 p.m. Westin, Cascade Ballroom I. Presidential address
  
  
  • Chair: Mark Noll, Wheaton College
    
    
  • Address: African American Religious Intellectuals and the Theological Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, 1930–55
    Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
    
    
• 6:45–7:45 p.m. Westin, Cascade Ballroom II. Reception

Sunday, January 9

• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 27. Medieval Holy Women in Context: Preaching, Conversing, and Collaborating with Men
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Vashon Room I. Session 28. The Promise of Historical Criticism: German Biblical Scholarship in Trans-Atlantic Context
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 29. Controversy and Conflict in the Long Eighteenth Century
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 30. Pacific Rim Internationalism and Indigenization: Resituating the Pacific Northwest Missionary
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Blakely Room. Session 31. Divine Healing in Comparative Perspective
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Westin, Stuart Room. Session 32. Conversion and Identity Construction in American Religious History
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, Madrona Room. Session 33, joint with the American Catholic Historical Association, the Conference on Latin American History, and the Academy of American Franciscan History. Franciscans in Colonial Latin America
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room I. Session 34. Secularization Reconsidered: Religion and the Problem of “Early Modernity”
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Stuart Room. Session 35. Liberty, Equality, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century America
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Whidbey Room. Session 36. Faith and the Frontier in America
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Orcas Room. Session 37. English Calvinists, Missouri Lutherans, and the Ambiguities of Election
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Blakely Room. Session 38. Migrations Ancient and Modern
  
  
• 1:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Westin, Vashon Room II. Session 39. Constructing the New People’s History of Christianity