Year-Round Programming
AAR produces and sponsors webinAARs every month on topics related to the academic study and teaching of religion. These webinAARs may be single-session events, part of a series, or components of AAR certificate programs. WebinAARs are hosted by AAR committees, program units, or in collaboration with other academic and professional development organizations. Live WebinAARs are open to the public. Recordings typically require an AAR membership to view and are available to watch below.
WebinAAR
September 26, 2025
Teaching with Native American and Indigenous Religions on Stolen Land
The webinar is structured as a conversation with a moderator and four Indigenous teacher-scholars from various career stages and disciplines, around how theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies can offer critical interventions to responsible pedagogy.
WebinAAR
October 1, 2025
Teaching Controversial Topics in the News: Immigration and Religion in the Classroom Setting and Beyond
The goal of this webinAAR is to provide insight and resources on how educators can face the complex realities of immigration and religion in and beyond the classroom in our current socio-political context.
WebinAAR
September 24, 2025
Strategies for Building Resilient Undergrad Programs
Learn what departments can do to build stronger and more diverse programs for undergrads.
WebinAAR
August 27, 2025
The Future of Doctoral Programs
Two authors with chapters in the book Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline (edited by Russell McCutcheon, Equinox 2024) reflect on doctoral programs, discuss changes, and imagine different approaches to programs to meet the needs of today’s doctoral students.
WebinAAR
July 25, 2025
Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 (2025 Inclusive Pedagogy Series #2)
In the summer of 2024, the latest guidelines for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) were released. Behold, UDL Guidelines 3.0!
WebinAAR
July 30, 2025
Steps Toward a New PhD
Humanities departments have faced growing challenges for the past few decades. This webinAAR considers steps that graduate programs in our field might take to try to respond to their current situation.
WebinAAR
June 23, 2025
Recent Changes in Higher Education and What We Can Do About It
With the closures of departments, the impact of current policy shifts in funding for research and higher education, and the increased reliance on contingent labor; from students to those on renewable 9-month contracts — what can AAR members do to better understand these shifts? AAR’s Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee addresses these issues in this webinAAR.
WebinAAR
June 23, 2025
How to Get Published in Journals
Join AAR and other academic journal editors to explore the process of exploring, submitting, and publishing in academic journals.
WebinAAR
June 23, 2025
Mapping Public Scholarship in Religion — A Session for Practitioners and Researchers
Where is public scholarship on religion happening? Who asks what questions? What are the goals? This session offers an opportunity to explore some of these questions, notice different approaches, and learn about sometimes surprising new discoveries.
WebinAAR
June 23, 2025
The Crisis of the Humanities – What We Can Do About It (Online June Annual Meeting Workshop)
Join Robert Townsend, from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and AAR Committee leaders to learn more about the Humanities Indicators survey, a nationally recognized source of nonpartisan information on the state of the humanities.