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Jacob J. Erickson, The Vegetal and the Manifold: Agnes Arber's Botanical Panentheism, Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative, Harvard University, 2025,
Notes: [The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is excited to announce Thinking with Plants and Fungi: An Interdisciplinary Exploration into the Mind of Nature, a three-day conference held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. This conference convenes scholars from across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences together with artists, culture keepers, activists, and practitioners to explore how plants and fungi help us rethink the nature of mind and matter, and humans" relationship to the `more-than-human' world. How might plants and fungi invite us to reimagine cooperation, flourishing, and co-existence amidst ongoing ecological and social crises?],
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Jacob J. Erickson, "The Terror of the Trees": Algernon Blackwood, Vegetal Entanglement, and Pantheist Legacies, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 22-25th, edited by Co-sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Unit and the Esotericism Unit , 2025,
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Jacob J. Erickson and Marit Trelstad, Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit, American Academy of Religion, 22-25 November, 2025, Boston, MA, USA,
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Jacob J. Erickson, "Palestinian Lutheran Theologies: Justice, Peace, and the Academy," American Academy of Religion, June Online Meetings, 24th June 2025, 2025,
Notes: [Organized and Presided over "Palestinian Lutheran Theologies: Justice, Peace, and the Academy" for the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. This roundtable session brings together experts and leaders in the history, context, and practice of Palestinian Lutheran Theologies. We will consider histories of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), empire, occupation, settler colonialism, justice, gender, sumud (steadfastness) for justice in Palestine and Israel, liberation, and peace. We'll ask into Lutheran themes in current Palestinian Christian theologies, engage questions of solidarity, and, finally, ask what role the academy should play at this moment in history. As theologian Willie James Jennings writes in his "Foreward" to Munther Isaac's Christ in the Rubble, "the wider Christian world has too often failed to be alive to God and see Palestinian suffering on the map and has failed to walk alongside our Palestinian Christian kin as they traverse this impossible terrain" (Eerdmans, 2025). This session turns our attention and action to that walk and that terrain. Panelists included: Anne Heikkinen, University of Helsinki; Rev. Sally Azar, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land; Bishop Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, Rocky Mountain Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America],
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Jacob J. Erickson, On Noah's Arkive, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, 23-26 November, 2024,
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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, Brill, 2024,
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Jacob J. Erickson and Marit Trelstad, Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit, American Academy of Religion, 23-26 November, 2024, San Diego, California, USA,
Notes: [Co-Chair of the MLGLT Unit, evaluating and organizing two sessions for our Unit and another co-sponsored session with the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit. Sessions Include: "Beyond Lutheran Theological Neutrality Regarding Those of Other Religions or No Religion"; "Settler Colonial Subjects, Indigenous Rights, and Repair"; "Injury, Justice, Love, and Fate: Bonhoeffer's Theo-Ethical Legacies"],
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Jacob J. Erickson, Epiphanic Ecologies: Queer Theopoetics for a Planet in Process, Center for Process Studies, 50th Anniversary, Claremont, California, February 15th-17, 2023,
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Jacob J. Erickson, The Apophatic Botany of Agnes Arber: Toward a Vegetal Mysticism, American Academy of Religion Annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 18-21, 2023, 2023,
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Jacob J. Erickson, [Forthcoming, Working Title] On the Floodtide of History: Climate Grief and the Theopoetics of Planetary Feeling, (Under Contract with Fortress Press), 2022,
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