2005 Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium for Religious Studies

Dates: April 1 and 2, 2005
Location: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Keynote Speaker: Diana Fritz Cates, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa and author of _Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends_ (1997).
Keynote Address: “The Religious Ethical Study of Emotion”

The Department of Religion at Florida State University is soliciting papers for its annual graduate student symposium. Submissions are encouraged from all graduate students in religion or other fields with interdisciplinary interest in the study of religion. We are open to a variety of topics and approaches, with particular interests in papers pertaining to the following subfields: 1) Religion, ethics, and philosophy; 2) American religious history; 3) Religions of Asia; 4) Religions of Western Antiquity.

Submission of an abstract (roughly 300 words) is required for review. Abstracts must be accompanied by a C.V. Deadline for submissions is February 24.