Here and there

Because of covid-19, the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion is virtual. It's also spread out over 12 days! So I've started two weeks of weaving in and out of my usual work to hear people presenting on all sorts of subjects new and familiar. Yes of course it's on zoom, with the full assortment of technical glitches, and so far all webinars where the audience is invisible. But it's still strange and fun - like the talk (whence the image above) about divination among the precolumbian Mexica as an interlocutor for contemplative studies today. The guild persists!