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Religion Matters: Material Effects of Religion on Bodies
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-06-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-05-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
162313 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Religion Matters: Material Effects of Religion on Bodies
Keynote Address by Professor Ann Pellegrini
October 4, 2008
Abstracts of 500 words or less due June 1, 2008, to
van-kley.2@osu.edu
Include name, email, mailing address, institution and title of paper in body of email, and “Religion Matters” in the subject line.
Questions: Bridget Buchholz (buchholz.21@osu.edu) or Rita Trimble (trimble.38@osu.edu)
The Religious Studies Roundtable at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the first in what it hopes will become a series of annual conferences. The conference seeks to explore the effects of religion on the body, as well as collective bodies (like the nation), from a wide range of scholarly approaches. We welcome submissions about topics that might not, at first glance, be considered religious, as well as fiction, performance pieces or any other format that addresses the topic.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• the consequences of belief for the body: sexual, medical, political, legal, ethical, physiological, psychological, etc.
• disciplinary techniques of the body
• the effect of cultivation, meditation and practice on the body
• religious affects and intensities
• religious trauma
• religious and bio-politics in a time of war
• bodily modifications
• the relationship between corporeality and spirituality, religion, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity
The keynote address will be delivered by Ann Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University. Professor Pellegrini's interests include religion, sex and the law; queer theory; trauma and the performance of witnessing; and religion and performance. Her books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (1997); Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (2003), co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen; and Secularisms (2008), co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen. Professor Pellegrini's talk will address "queer structures of religious feeling."
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Bridget Buchholz
buchholz.21@osu.edu
or Rita Trimble
trimble.38@osu.edu
Email: buchholz.21@osu.edu
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