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The Religion Graduate Students’ Association of Columbia University
is now accepting papers for inclusion in their
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:
“Re-Stating Religion: A Conference Reconsidering the Rules”
Thursday-Friday, March 30-31, 2006
Columbia University, New York
Featured Speakers:
Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
author of Genealogies of Religion: Disciplines and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2004)
Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
author of Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005)
Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
author of Technologies of Islamic Piety: Cassette Sermons and the Ethics of Listening (1999), and Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (2005)
Description:
This conference is designed to investigate the use of particular narratives increasingly deployed across historical and geographical contexts to describe religio-political situations, such as “secularization,” “tolerance,” and “fundamentalism.” Also under consideration are the ways these tropes are utilized to discuss particular specific national or international practices and shape discussions of free exercise, democracy, and human rights. Proposals will be accepted for consideration under (but not limited to) the following panels:-Genealogies of Fundamentalism (exploring how the notion of "fundamentalism" has been constructed and utilized in various contexts)
-Genealogies of Secularism (a similar project and related theme investigating how this notion has developed as a prescriptive or prohibited political position)-Religion and Government/Governance (questioning the ways particular practices are described as “religious” and officially or implicitly prescribed or prohibited)-“Tolerating” Difference (examining the history and efficacy of tolerance as a model for negotiating conflicts) -Religions of Human Rights (looking into the possible connections between developing discourses of human rights and indices of religious ethics) -Original Accounts (discussing narratives of origins various political parties or constituencies hold to as foundational, and their associated prescriptions for religious-governmental relations)
Proposals will also be considered for full panels dealing with related themes.
Please direct all submissions to:
Rosemary Hicks
rrh2103@columbia.edu
DEADLINE: 15 November, 2005
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