An Interdisciplinary Conference
12-14 May 2000
University of Minnesota

This conference is free and open to the public. For more information, the position paper, and registration information, go to the conference web page:
http://www.icgc.umn.edu/consortium/AfterSecularism.html

Tentative Agenda

Friday, 12 May
9:00 Opening Lecture, Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University

10:30-12:30 Panel I: Genealogies of Religion

• Richard S. Cohen, UC San Diego
  Why Study Indian Buddhism?
• Jeremy Stolow, York University
  'Here we are the Haredim': Intertextuality and the Voice of Authority in the Representation of a Religious Fundamentalist Movement
• Samira Haj, College of Staten Island
  Reconfiguring Tradition: Islamic Reform, Rationality and Modernity

2:00-4:00 Panel II: Religion and the Nation

• Sanjay Joshi, Northern Arizona University
  Republicized Religiosity: Modernity, Religion, and the Middle Class in Colonial North India
• James Gelvin, UC Los Angeles
  Secularism and Religion in the Arab Middle East: Reinventing Islam in a World of Nation States
• Sarah Thal, Rice University
  A Religion That Was "Not a Religion": Politics, Society, and the Creation of Modern Shinto
• Jean-Pierre Reed, UC Santa Barbara
  Some Considerations in the Tropological Interplay between Religion and Secularism in the Politics of Liberation

7:30 Public Lecture, Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
The State of Liberation Theology

Saturday, 13 May

9:00-10:15 Discussion: Enrique Dussel and Gauri Viswanathan

10:30-12:30 Panel III: After Secularism?

• James Block, DePaul University
  American Liberalism as a Religious Project: Toward a Post-secular Recovery of the Political
• Arvind Rajagopal, New York University
  Questions of Secularism in the Context of Hindu Nationalism
• Deborah Fleetham, Calvin College
  Beyond the Secularism/Religion Dichotomy: Protestantism in Berlin in the Nineteenth Century
• Nelson Maldonado Torres, Brown University
  Secularism and Religion in the Modern World System: Overcoming the Dichotomy though a Radical Critique of Imperialism

1:30-3:30 Panel IV: Religion in Representation

• Wendy Shaw, Ohio State University
  Secular Temples: Religious Practice in Museums of the Turkish Republic
• Aaron Ketchell, University of Kansas
  'These Hills will give you Great Treasure': The Collapse of 'Sacred' and 'Secular' in the Lived Experience of Ozark Tourists
• Derek Peterson, University of Minnesota
  Of Mimicry's Making: 'Religion' in Early Colonial Encounters in Central Kenya

• David Nash, Oxford Brookes University
  Renaming the secular-locating the religious: Some British historical perspectives on nationalism and secularism
• Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Washington and Lee University
  Rethinking Religious Freedom
• Lauren Leve, Wellesley College
  National Subjects/Religious Selves: Buddhism and Secularism in Modern Nepal

Sunday, 14 May

9:00-11:00 Panel VI: Making Religious Communities

• Kimberley Theidon, Stanford University
  Entering and Leaving Evangelism: The Politics of Religious Identity in Peru
• Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein, Clark Atlanta University
  The Recent Resurgence of Religious Education in Secular China
• Chris Chiappari, St. Olaf College
  Secularization, Cultural Identity, and Mayan Religion in Guatemala