Bouchard to speak at June 10 Convocation
The 2011 Convocation will be held June 10 at 5:30 p.m. Larry D. Bouchard, Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Virginia will speak. He studies intersections between religious thought (including theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics) and imaginative literature, especially prose fiction and drama. His forthcoming book, Theater and Integrity: Emptying Selves in Drama, Ethics, and Religion (Northwestern University Press, August 2011), reconceptualizes relations of selves and their "integrity" in ethics and theology, as refracted through studies of theatrical drama. He is also the author of Tragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious Thought and the coeditor of Interpreting Disciples: Practical Theology in the Disciples of Christ. An alumnus, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1997 and served as its president from 2005-2010.