April 1, 2020
To All IARPT Members and Affiliates:
As many of you may have guessed, we will not be meeting in St. Paul this June 15-19. Due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, there will be no IARPT 2020. However, the Board has made the decision to move the program to June 14-18, 2021 in St. Paul, Minnesota. After a lot of hard work, Co-Chairs Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts have put together a splendid program that will be just as fresh and relevant fourteen months from now. As Demian Wheeler points out, “we’ll still be living in the Anthropocene in 2021!” Mike Hogue’s book will be every bit as urgent a year from now, and William Connolly has tentatively committed to moving his keynote address to 2021. Andrew and Austin may tweak the program a little, but they will honor the acceptances they have recently sent out. If your paper proposal or panel will change, please be in touch with Andrew and Austin. And I’m so pleased to tell you that we will once again be in the good hands of our local hosts in the Twin Cities, Bill Hart and Demian Wheeler. I want to thank them all—Andrew and Austin, Bill and Demian—for the thoughtfulness and dedication they have put into every detail of planning. And for their willingness to do it all again!
This June’s Board of Governors meeting and Business Meeting Thursday were to be my last before turning it over to the next President, Michael Raposa. Rest assured that I am committed to providing continuity in leadership and will work with Michael (and the Board, which is due for some turnover) through the summer. He is a quick study, anyway.
IARPT runs so smoothly because of the hard work, trustworthiness, and administrative talent of our Treasurer, Dan Ott. I want to take a moment and say Thank You Dan! We are glad to see that Monmouth College recognizes your skills, too, and has appointed you Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives. Dan will be offering those who paid registration for 2020 either a postponement or a reimbursement, whichever you prefer. Please let him know.
I sincerely hope that each of you is finding ways to center yourself and those in your networks as we all struggle with multiple rapidly changing situations. I encourage you to prioritize your health right now—mental, physical, spiritual—individually and collectively.
Until we meet again, stay safe and healthy, and all my best!
Nancy
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John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, Dartmouth College
President, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (2016-2020)