Distinguished Speakers Series
14th Annual Distinguished Guest Speaker
Dr. Caroline Schroeder
Caroline T. Schroeder is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also a member of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences’ interdisciplinary Data Scholarship Program, an affiliate faculty member in History and Religious Studies, and a Fellow at the Data Institute for Societal Challenges.
Dr. Schroeder is an award-winning teacher and scholar who works at the intersections of the cultural history of early Christianity, gender studies, and digital humanities. Her most recent monograph, Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism (Cambridge University Press), was recently a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion book award for textual studies in religion.
Co-Sponsored by
WWU Alumni Association
College of Humanities and Social Science
Internet Studies Center
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Department of Political Science
Event Information
Date: March 2nd, 2023
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. PT
Location: Via Zoom
"Digital Methods in Early Christian Studies: Enabling New Discoveries and Confronting Old Challenges"
The early days of the internet inspired technological utopian visions of the future—a world where information could spread freely, dismantling hierarchies of class and education and enabling global exchanges of data and culture. In colleges and universities, humanists jumped on the bandwagon, developing the field of Humanities Computing, which has since morphed into what we now call Digital Humanities. Have digital and computational methods fulfilled these early promises of unfettered, accessible information sharing?
Religious Studies and Biblical Studies were a bit late to the game but in recent years major digital projects, especially in early Christian Studies have launched. How has this work enabled new research discoveries, and in what ways do longstanding challenges in the field—such as colonialism, multilingual accessibility, and a hyperfocus on canon formation—continue to trouble the field?
Questions and Accommodations
Maureen Christman is the coordinator for the Distinguished Speaker Series.
Feel free to email GHR@wwu.edu if you have any questions or comments.
Previous Distinguished Speakers
“Popular Religion in American Democracy”
Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut
"Exacting Consent: Silent Consent and Public Voice from Chaucer to the Twenty-first Century"
"A Tale of Three Cities: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Foundations of the Culture, Society and Religion in Early India"
"Buddhism and Human Rights: From 19th Century Reformers to Contemporary Advocates"
"The Muslim Discovery of Printing: A Moment in Global History"
Associate Professor of South Asia Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Washington
"Stretching Religion: Yoga in Philosophy, Temple Architecture, and Gandhi's India"
Professor of German Studies, McGill University
"Representations of Terrorism and Mass-Media"
Republic of China Chair, Department of History and Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
"Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century: A China Connection?"
"Sibling Rivalries: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
Previous Department Sponsored Speakers
"Culinary Rage: Feast, Famine, and Gender Subjectivity"
Dr. K.S. Balasubramanian Award-winning international scholar, author, and professor.
Deputy Director of the Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute in Chennai, India.