The event spans the afternoon of Friday, 23 September, and all day Saturday, 24 September. For more details, please see the summary below; for a complete program, please see the attached poster. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the organizers – Henry Cowles (hcowles@princeton.edu) and Rebecca Rosen (rmrosen@princeton.edu). Thanks, and we hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Henry Cowles (History)
Rebecca Rosen (English)
Conference Organizers

Science & Religion in America
The 2011 American Studies Graduate Student Conference
September 23-24, 2011
Princeton University

Friday, September 23, 106 McCormick
4:30 PM: Coffee and Introductions
4:45 PM: Keynote Address by David Hollinger
(Preston Hotchkiss Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley)

Saturday, September 24, Chancellor Green Rotunda, East Pyne
8:30 AM: Coffee
9:00 AM: Panel 1: Medicine and Religious Experience
Faculty Respondent: Keith Wailoo (History, Princeton University)
10:30 AM: Break
10:45 AM Panel 2: Faith, Authority and Exploration
Faculty Respondent: William Gleason (English, Princeton University)
12:15: Lunch
1:15 PM: Panel 3: Psychology and the Spiritual
Faculty Respondent: Dan Bouk (History, Colgate University)
2:45 PM: Break
3:00 PM: Panel 4: Calvinism and Scientific Knowledge in Early
America
Faculty Respondent: Sarah Rivett (English, Princeton University)
4:30 PM: Break
4:45 PM: Keynote Address by Priscilla Wald
(Professor of English, Duke University)
6:00 PM: Closing Reception

Website http://www.princeton.edu/ams/for_graduate_students/student-conference/

With Funding and Support from
The American Studies Program
The Department of English
The Department of History
The Program in the History of Science
The Davis Center for Historical Studies
The Graduate School at Princeton University
The Center for the Study of Religion