Columbia University
Graduate Student Association
Department of Religion
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Spring 2005 Conference
“Identity, Representation, and Narrative in the Studies of Religion”
Dates: March 31-April 1, 2005
Location: Columbia University, New York City, New York.
Keynote Speaker: Robert Orsi, Harvard, 2003 President of the American Academy of Religion and author of "Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them" (2004)
The Department of Religion at Columbia University is soliciting papers for its forthcoming 2005 conference. The conference will focus on methodological and theoretical issues applied to the studies of religions, specifically concerning the ways in which religious identities are conceptualized, recorded,and represented in both practice and academic discourse.
Featured Presentations:
- Mark Taylor, Williams College and Columbia University, author of "Confidence Games" (2004), on the future of identity politics in religious studies.
- Religion and Media in the United States
- The History of Religious Studies at Columbia University
**Possible panels include, but are not restricted to:
- Religious Identity in/during/through Migration
- Identity and Conversion
- “The History of the History of Religion”
- Hagiography and Biography
- Lived Religion as Methodology
- Psychology as Analytical Lens
- Intertextuality
- Religion and Media
Submissions must be no longer than 10 pages (20 minute presentation length). Complete panel proposals in keeping with the theme will also be considered.
Deadline: December 20th, 2004.
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