Schedule subject to change.

Questions about the schedule may be addressed to Rebecca Bultman (rdd6aw@virginia.edu), project manager.

Week One: Place in Geography and Environmental Studies

  • Day One (Monday, June 5)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: Kim Knott, The Location of Religion. Equinox Press, 2005. Introduction (pp. 1-8), Chapters 1-5 9 (pp. 11-130), Conclusion (pp. 229-235).
      • David Chidester Edward T. Linenthal, “Introduction,” in American Sacred Space. Indiana UP, 1995, pp. 1–42.
    • Afternoon Session (2–3pm)
      • Orientation at Clemons Library (optional, but helpful and a good way to get library privileges)
  • Day Two (Tuesday, June 6)
    • Research Day
    • Optional Meeting Times (1115–1230) with Kurtis & Martien
    • Suggested Field Trip (which you can organize according to your own schedule and interests): Shenandoah National Park
  • Day Three (Wednesday, June 7)
    • Morning Session (9am-12pm)
      • Reading: McNally, Michael D. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment. Princeton University Press, 2020.
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Guest: Michael McNally [via zoom]
  • Day Four (Thursday, June 8 )
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Guests: Willis Jenkins & Matthew Burtner (Conservatory and Sanctuary) [Burtner via zoom]
  • Day Five (Friday, June 9)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: Farrell, Justin, The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict. Princeton University Press, 2015.
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Participant-led pedagogy workshop

Week Two: Sacred Space and Place in Law, Politics, and Civic Life

  • Day One (Monday, June 12)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: Berry, Evan. Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism. University of California Press, 2015
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Guest: Evan Berry
  • Day Two (Tuesday, June 13)
    • Teaching and Resource Center-guided pedagogy workshop at Foxhaven (Morning)
  • Day Three (Wednesday, June 14)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: Howe, Nicolas. Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • Day Four (Thursday, June 15)
    • Trip to Monticello
      • House tour at 10:10
      • Niya Bates walk and talk at 11
      • Lunch and wrap-up discussion at noon 
  • Day Five (Friday, June 16)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: Havrelock, Rachel. River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Guest: Rachel Havrelock

Week Three: Place and Religion in Indigenous Studies

  • Day One (Monday, June 19)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: De la Cadena, Marisol. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Duke University Press, 2015.
  • Day Two (Tuesday, June 20)
    • Morning Session 9:30–11:30
      • Tour of Grounds and Charlottesville with Jalane Schmidt (Religious Studies), Director of UVA’s Memory Project
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Participant-led pedagogy workshop
  • Day Three (Wednesday, June 21)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Reading: LaPier, Rosalyn. Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • Guest: Rosalyn LaPier [via zoom]
  • Day Four (Thursday, June 22)
    • Kelsey Johnson (Dark Skies and Sacred Space at the Observatory) (7:30pm)
  • Day Five (Friday, June 23)
    • Morning Session (9am–12pm)
      • Rubenstein, Mary-Jane. Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
    • Afternoon Session (2–4pm)
      • 2–3:30pm Guest: Mary-Jane Rubenstein [via zoom]
      • 4pm closing reception Oakhurst/wrap-up