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Quick reminder to all our student members out there, SBL abstracts for the annual meeting are due tomorrow (3/15)!
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The Midwest Region Virtual Reception is in 1 week during the Midwest Region SBL Conference! Open to all friends of the Midwest Region. Put it on your calendar. Bring yourself. Bring your pets. (DM me if you have any questions.)
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Midwest SBL Students drop this on your calendar!
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The Grad Student Virtual Happy is in one week, during the Midwest Region SBL Conference! Put it on your calendar. Bring yourself. Bring your pets. (DM me if you have any questions.) @SBLStudents
Annual Meeting may be long over, but it's still worth retroactively celebrating milestones like this for EC scholars. First annual meeting presentation -- check! Congrats ! #AARSBL2021
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Career milestone: presenting my first research paper at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting. So grateful for colleagues who generously engaged with helpful comments and questions. #AARSBL2021Show this thread
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#hotoffthepress Happy to present a new BZAW volume! #HebrewBible Thanks to all articles are available #openaccess 👉🏽bit.ly/3cxFNgP
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Thanks so much to the panelists for a great conversation about post-humanist possibilities! and Beth Berkowitz. Great facilitating and contributions by , Natalie Reynoso, and David Magazine Malamud. #aarsbl21
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Surprise! Starting the day off in Synoptic Gospels at #aarsbl21—excited to hear from Justin David Strong, Kasper Bro Larsen, , and
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talks with students about how they want to approach certain projects--asking students to help envision a new way forward
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Beth Berkowitz notes that sometimes in higher ed, student curriculum is often a bunch of boxes that get checked off, but there needs to be more integration and connection being drawn among the different competencies
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thinks we need to avoid being essentialist about what the tools of humanity are
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has been reflecting on how the questions raised by her course can equip students to be able to address questions raised in the world outside the classroom, even if that does still mean using some of the more "traditional" approaches.
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Another question for panelists: What does your vision of post-humanism do with the basic humanist tools we still use in the humanities? #aarsbl21
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would emphasize the "decentering of the human in order to consider the larger environment that humans are entangled in"
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"I want what I say to haunt people in a way" -- that is, people should be "stuck thinking through a problem." They try to take an issue and complicate it so that it sits with people on a moral level.
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Beth Berkowitz talks about the category of danger. Different dog breeds have been considered dangerous at different points in cultural histories, for instance. How can we all be more self-reflective about how we think about danger and risk, and that with respect to the human?
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Panelists were asked: If you were to give a one-hour crash course on the topic of post-humanism, how would you introduce it? #aarsbl21
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SBL students of the New England/Eastern Canada region showing up with new and exciting research at #aarsbl21 !
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Beth Berkowitz uses public-facing science videos to explore things like religious-like rituals among chimps, or asks students to make connections from pop culture (like vampires and humans in Twilight), or even uses religious texts.
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uses a storytelling approach that can stick with students, even when students only fully appreciate it years later. They also make connections to social inequalities, and introduce post-humanist ideas as a solution to problems they've posed all semester.
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reiterates: we need to think past the human/machine dichotomy. We also can think about the history of chattel slavery as an example of the ways that people's humanity has been brutally violated.
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challenges her students to think about the ways we navigate the world by making a society that functions for some bodies but not others (e.g., use of contact lenses is widely accepted, but other techno-bodily differences aren't)
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Natalie Reynoso asks: In teaching, how do you think and talk about a category as unstable as the human?
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challenges us to think about how the framework of rights "presumes already a bureaucratic, rational institution for governing those rights" that have often been only selectively available.
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encourages us to use this question as an opportunity to reflect on not only our relationship to animals but also our relationship with ourselves
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also suggests, though, strategizing "how to get to what some might argue is a more ideal place, and that is a place where we can have the political feasibility of enacting policy of advancing outcomes that don't
depend on proximity to a human.
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reflects on the productive pragmatism in this approach
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He asks "what the human is, how it functions, what that means."
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This work has informed with work in African religions and other indigenous religions.
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He also does work with cybernetics, synthetic biology.
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Sylvester Johnson works with AI and considers "the way that
intelligent machines are being engineered in order to do something that resembles at least looks a lot like what we call reasoning thinking decision logic trees." #aarsbl21
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In her teaching, she uses an image of headless humans -- a colonial image of indigenous peoples that traces back to the ancient period -- to draw out questions about how the boundaries of "human" get construed
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Dalton notes that we are still debating ourselves and in our courts who gets to be human, who has fundamental rights?
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“This is where Posthumanism provides possibility: combined with indigenous critique”
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“I think through with my students ‘How are other people surviving the apocalypse? Should we let anthropology burn and see what emerges in the space and place left behind’?
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“I ask my students, 'The world is burning? Why are we doing anthropology in a burning world?'”
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Post-humanist possibilities panel starts now! #aarsbl21
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Join the SBL Student Advisory Board during SBLAAR for a virtual panel on post-humanist possibilities! 11/21, 9:00-11:30am (Central). Panelists include Beth Berkowitz, Leigh Bloch, Courtney Bryant Prince, Virginia Burrus, Krista Dalton, Terrance Dean, Sylvester Johnson.
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AAR and SBL students, there's a happy hour happening NOW @ Marriott Riverwalk Oak Tree Terrace. It's outside! We've got free drink tickets! Lasts until 7pm CST. #aarsbl21
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