2023 ACHTUS Colloquium

NOPSI Hotel, New Orleans

June 4-7, 2023

Call for papers, posters, and conveners  below.

Our Colloquium’s Theme

 

“Empire” is a theme that has been threading its way through the work of theologians and scholars of religion. Our colloquium welcomes papers about the complex legacies of hegemonic political powers, both ancient and modern, and their legacies in Latiné and Latin American theology. The term Latiné was selected on the advice of members as the best term to encompass U.S. Hispanic, Latinx, mujerista, Chican@, persons. The treatment of “empire” need not be limited to papers examining the legacies of historical empires or current political economic powers. Papers dealing with theological, philosophical, cultural, or ideological hegemonies, which hold a position of ascendancy or predominance, and could exclude or suppress rival ideas, both inside and outside the Catholic Church or Christian churches in general are welcome.

Colloquium Location and Dates

 

New Orleans was chosen for our meeting because it is called (rightly) “the northernmost Caribbean city.” Picking up on the work of the moral theology section at the 2016 annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, ACHTUS invites scholars whose work engages with the history and current situation of Puerto Rico to consider forming a panel. Colleagues who wish to present about other Caribbean nations are welcome to submit proposals.

By extension, ACHTUS is hopeful that a delegation of colleagues from Caribbean Theology Today will come to New Orleans and present their work. This colloquium is intended to be the locus of an encuentro between ACHTUS and our Caribbean colleagues. We hope this will be the first step to develop a separate meeting between our two groups at a future date and time.


Registration and Lodging
 

Registration 

Click here to register. 

Lodging

 

NOPSI Hotel

317 Baronne St,
New Orleans, LA 70112

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Questions

For questions email  Ramon Luzarraga, Ph.D.

Schedule 

2023 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

7:30 am
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9:30 pm
10:00 pm
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Board Meeting at NOPSI Hotel
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Board Meeting at NOPSI Hotel Desire Room

Welcome Mass at at Immaculate Conception Parish
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Mass at Immaculate Conception Parish 130 Baronne St. The church is a two minute walk from the NOPSI, toward Canal Street. Exit the hotel’s main entrance, turn left, and look for a Venetian Gothic and Moorish revival building on the right.

Welcome Reception at NOPSI Hotel
8:45 pm - 10:00 pm

The Avenue

Monday, June 5, 2023
Monday, June 5, 2023
Breakfast at NOPSI
7:30 am - 8:30 am

The Avenue

Morning Prayer

Dryades Ballroom

En Conjunto Session 1, Papers 1 and 2
9:00 am - 10:30 am
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Dryades Ballroom

Nelson Araque, Cardinal Gibbons High School, “The Latiné Environmental Justice Movement (LEJM).”

Francisco Castillo, Barry University, “The Christological and Theological Themes of Mejía Godoy’s Music.”

En Conjunto Session 2, Papers 3 and 4
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Dryades Ballroom

Yamil Samalot-Rivera, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, “Anti-Imperialist Ecclesiology: The Independent Conception of Puerto Rico as a Latin American Church under US Hegemony.”

Jutta Battenberg Galindo, Universidad Pontificia de México, “Construcción y deconstrucción del imaginario imperialista masculino contra las mujeres.”

Lunch at the NOPSI
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

En Conjunto Session 3, Paper 5
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Dryades Ballroom

Jennifer Owens Jofré, Saint Louis University and Darren J. Dias, OP, University of Saint Michael’s College, “Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries: Listening in Canada and the United States.”

En Conjunto Session 4, Paper 6 and 7
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Dryades Ballroom

Luz Elena Arozqueta and Sonia Martínez, Universidad Iberoamericana, CDMX, “Reflexionar Teológicamente desde la Cocina. Subvertir el Imperio Sobre Las Mujeres Latinas.”

Robert Wright, Oblate School of Theology, “The Pitfalls of Anti-Imperialism: The Catholic Church and Mexican Americans, 1800-1900.”

Dinner and evening (on your own)
5:45 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Breakfast at NOPSI
7:30 am - 8:30 am

The Avenue

Morning Prayer

Dryades Ballroom

En Conjunto Session 5, Papers 8 and 9
9:00 am - 10:30 am
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Dryades Ballroom

Miguel Ángel Sánchez Carlos, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, “Ética y descolonización. "Lo conveniente, lo recto.’”

Rene Sanchez, De La Salle High School, “Prophetic Response in the Time of Empire.”

En Conjunto Session 6, Paper 10 and 11
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Dryades Ballroom

Jorge Aquino, University of San Francisco, “Toward a North American Latinx Theology of Liberation Via an Anti-systemic Critique of Global Capitalism.”

Business Meeting (with Lunch)
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Dryades Ballroom

En Conjunto Session 7
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Dryades Ballroom

Enlace Session with Dr. Alison McLetchie, South Carolina State University

Reception

The Avenue

Banquet
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Public Service Reserve
A special thanks to Dominican University, PASOS Network, Dr. Armando Guerrero-Estrada, Director, for sponsoring our banquet.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
2023 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
Monday, June 5, 2023

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