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March 06, 2026
In Memoriam: Barbara Anne DeConcini (1944-2026)
Dr. Barbara Anne DeConcini, AAR’s Executive Director from 1991 to 2006, died on Tuesday, February 24, 2026
February 04, 2026
AAR Strategic Goals and Priorities, 2026-2031
AAR 2026-2031 Strategic Goals and Priorities
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The Roots of Reproductive Injustice with Elizabeth O’Brien
Elizabeth O’Brien, associate professor of history at UCLA and winner of the 2024 AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, speaks to Kristian Petersen about her book, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
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The Sovereignty of Hope: Scholarship, Precarity, and the Future of Academic Freedom
This panel — one of Leela Prasad’s presidential plenaries, held at the 2025 AAR Annual Meeting in Boston — explores hope not as naïve optimism, but as a form of sovereignty—a declaration of intellectual and ethical autonomy as well as accountability.
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Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature with Max K. Strassfeld
Max K. Strassfeld, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, speaks to Kristian Petersen about their book, Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2023).