What are “religious affections” and how have they influenced individuals, communities, and

cultures? Leading experts in history, literature, and religious studies will explore how religion shaped the roots, limits, and consequences of affections in the diverse terrain of early America.

LOCATION: Rothenberg Hall,

Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center

F R I DAY, JAN UARY 2 7, 2 017

8:30 Registration&Coffee9:15 Welcome:

Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Remarks by Conveners:

Abram Van Engen (Washington University in St. Louis) Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)

9:30 Opening Keynote: Marilynne Robinson (Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, Writers’ Workshop) “Mind, Conscience, and Soul”

Moderator: Abram Van Engen

10:45 Break11:00 Session 1 — New France Presenter:

Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa) “‘Thine Own by Adoption’: Fictive Kinship and Integrative Rituals as Shared Strategies for Encounter in Colonial New France”

Respondent: Emily Clark (Tulane University)

Moderator: Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)

12:30 Lunch1:30 Session 2 — Indigenous Atlantic Presenter:

Scott Manning Stevens (Syracuse University) “The Language of Belief: Indigenous Linguistic Challenges in Colonial North America”

Respondent: Caroline Wigginton

Moderator: Sandra Gustafson (University of Notre Dame)

3:00 Break3:15 Session 3 — Evangelical New England Presenter:

Mark Valeri (Washington University in St. Louis) “Free Conscience, Moral Judgment, and Social Affections in Evangelical New England”

Respondent: Joanna Brooks (San Diego State University)

Moderator: Peter Mancall

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phone: (626) 405-3432 email: researchconference@huntington.org

9:30 Registration&Coffee

10:00 Session 4 — The Early South

Presenter: Jon Sensbach (University of Florida) “Working Down a Bad Spirit: Slavery and the Inner Christ in the Early Protestant South”

Respondent: Kathleen Donegan (University of California, Berkeley)

Moderator: Sandra Gustafson

11:30 Lunch

12:30 Session 5 — New Spain Presenter:

Emily Berquist Soule (California State University, Long Beach) “Bonds of Affection?: The Catholic Church and Slavery in New Spain”

Respondent: Herman Bennett (CUNY Graduate Center)

Moderator: Peter Mancall

2:00 Session 6 — Comments from the Moderators Sandra Gustafson and Peter Mancall

Moderators: Abram Van Engen and Caroline Wigginton

3:00 Break3:15 Closing Plenary:

Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University Chicago) “Affections without Borders”

S AT U R D AY, JAN UARY 2 8 , 2 017

Conference registration and optional lunches by reservation only. Conference registration fee ................................................................................... $ 25.00 (Students free) Buffetlunch(January27) ....................................................................................... $ 20.00 Buffetlunch(January28) ....................................................................................... $ 20.00

Pleasevisithuntington.org/religiousaffectionsforticketinformation.Registration deadline: Noon on January 24, 2017.

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Funding provided byThe Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment and

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute