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Annual Meeting News
This page will feature news and updates about 2009 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The meeting will run from Friday, November 20 to Tuesday, November 24. Regular sessions start at 9am Saturday November 21.

Sessions will be held in the headquarter hotels: New Orleans Marriott and the Sheraton New Orleans, as well as the JW Marriott.  
 
22 November 2009
  • M22-409 Princeton Theological Seminary Reception
    Sunday, November 22
    7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
    Room: Il de France 3 - JW
  • Additional Meeting added to the Program
    M22-424 Harvard Divinity School Reception
    Sunday, November 22
    7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
    Room: La Galerie 3 - MR


17 November 2009

  • Additional Meeting added to the Program
    M20-405 Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
    Friday, Nov. 20, 8:00 – 9:30 p.m.
    Oak Alley - SH

16 November 2009
  • M20-101 Accordance Training Seminar
    Room changed to La Galerie 5
  • M22-411 Harvard Divinity School Reception
    Room changed to La Galerie 3, Sunday 9-11pm; new session number is M22-424.
  • M20-101
    Room changed to La Galerie 5
  • M20-202
    Room changed to Gallier A
  • M20-203
    Room changed to La Galerie 4
  • 21-206a
    Room changed to Balcony K
  • 21-326b
    Room changed to Balcony K
  • M21-408
    Room changed to Frontenac
  • 22-214
    Room changed to La Galerie 1
  • 23-148
    Room changed to Grand Ballroom D
  • 23-228
    Room changed to Grand Ballroom D
  • 23-313
    Room changed to Grand Ballroom D
  • M23-401
    Room changed to Napoleon C3 (Sheraton)
  • 24-119
    Room changed to Evergreen
13 November 2009
  • New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival
    About 5 miles west of the Annual Meeting headquarters hotels, thousands of New Orleanians will celebrate the city’s most famous sandwich—on Sunday, November 22, 2009.  The third annual New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival will be held from 11 to 6 P.M. that Sunday in a 7-block section of Oak Street between Carrollton Avenue and Eagle Street with the Carrollton and Oak intersection being accessible by streetcar.
    See the NY Times article on the festival here.

11 November 2009
6 November 2009
  • 24-119 The SBL Midrash Section has moved to the Ellendale Room in the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
29 October 2009
  • A newsletter was sent out containing news and updates on the 2009 Annual Meeting. If you did not see it in your inbox you can read it online.
  • Correction to the Program Book: Presiding at the Presidential address is Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University.
  • Correction to the Program Book: 22-230 National Film Premiere! Finding God in the City of Angels: Scriptural Communities and Dynamics in Los Angeles is in Grand Ballroom D – SH.
     
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