Conference Schedule

Friday, March 7, 2014

10am-1pm: Registration Open

• 2nd Floor Lobby
  

12pm-1pm:  Friday Prayers

• A bus will be available to take conference attendees to the Downtown Islamic Center for Friday prayers. Please RSVP here and meet at the registration desk at 11:45am.
  

1pm-2:15pm: Parallel Sessions

• Grand Ballroom: The Body in an Age of “Enhancement”
• Salon 1: Changing Body Image: From the perspective of a Plastic Surgeon, a Psychiatrist and a Theologian
• Salon 3: Self-care and Prevention: Religious Insights
• Erie: Body talk: how we cover, uncover and use our bodies in health and healing
  

2:15pm-2:30pm: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

2:30pm-2:40pm: Welcome with Farr Curlin, MD, and Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD

• Grand Ballroom

2:40pm-3:40pm: Keynote Lecture

• Grand Ballroom: "The Angel and the IV Pump: Faith, Illness, and Medicine" by Arthur W. Frank, PhD
  

3:55pm-5:15pm: Plenary One with Baruch Brody, PhD, Ingrid Mattson, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD

• Grand Ballroom
  

7pm-9pm: Sabbath Dinner (optional)

• Streeterville Room, 2nd Floor, for attendees who signed up during online registration. More information here.
  

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Saturday, March 8, 2014

7am-8am: Registration

• 2nd Floor Lobby
  

7am-8am: Continental Breakfast

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

7am-7:45am: Prayer/Worship

Catholic (Illinois), Jewish (Salon 1), Muslim (Salon 3—the Muslim prayer room will be open all day), and Protestant (Ontario).

8am-9:15am: Parallel Sessions

• Grand Ballroom: Religious and Spiritual Dimensions of Trauma, Resilience, and Post-traumatic Growth
  
• Salon 2: Rendering the Body in Poetry, Art, and Medicine
  
• Illinois: Measuring Spirituality: Pitfalls and Possibilities
  
• Ontario: Communities, Traditions, and the Abundant Life
  

9:15-9:30am: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

9:30am-10:45am: Parallel Sessions

• Grand Ballroom: Engelhardt: Philosophy of Difference, Theology of Unity
• Salon 2: Organ Donation Attitudes and Fatawa: Interdisciplinarity and Epistemology in “Islamic” Bioethics
• Erie: Three Recent Books on Medicine and Religion
  

• Illinois: Questions of Meaning: Special Needs Perspectives
  
• Ontario: Walking Together: Christian Communities & Faithful Responses to Mental Illness
  

10:45am-11am: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

11am-12:20pm: Plenary Two with Baruch Brody, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, and Ingrid Mattson, PhD

• Grand Ballroom

12:20pm-1:50pm: Lunch Break

1:50-3:30pm: Abstract Sessions

• Grand Ballroom: Ethics and Values in Practices of Care
• Salon 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Embodiment
  
• Erie: Respecting the Body
  
• Illinois: Embodied Suffering and Empathic Care
  
• Ontario: The Body at the End of Life
  

3:30pm-3:45pm: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

3:45pm-5pm: Parallel Abstract Sessions

• Grand Ballroom: Ancient Christian Traditions: Nature, Body, and Healing
  Salon 2: Religious Factors and Aggressive Medical Care
• Erie: Contemplative Prayer and Embodied Healing
• Illinois: Conceptualizing Medicine: History and Possibilities
  

• Ontario: The Sonic Dimension of Spiritual Integration and Healing

5pm-5:15: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

5:15pm-6:30pm: Special Panel: Measuring the Body

• Grand Ballroom
  

6:30pm-7:30pm: Reception & Posters

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

7am-7:45am: Prayer/Worship

Catholic (Illinois), Jewish (Salon 1), Muslim (Salon 3—the Muslim prayer room will be open all day), and Protestant (Ontario).

7am-8am: Continental Breakfast

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

8am-9:40am: Parallel Abstract Sessions

• Salon 2: Evolving Concepts of Illness, healing, and death
  
• Grand Ballroom: Spirituality and the Medical Professions
  
• Illinois: Embodiment: Some Implications for Care
  
• Ontario: Religion and Care in Mental Health
  

9:40am-9:55am: Break

• Lakeshore Ballroom
  

9:55am-10:25am: Student Essay Award and Presentation

• Grand Ballroom
  

10:25-11:45: Plenary Three with Baruch Brody, PhD, M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, and Ingrid Mattson, PhD.

• Grand Ballroom

11:45am: Closing Remarks

• Grand Ballroom
  

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