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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
IAHR World Congress, August 2010
NAASR Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct-Nov 2010.
North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy, March 2011
NAASR panels, Atlanta, GA Oct-Nov 2010
Panel 1: “Theorizing Religion”
Friday, October 29, 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Chair: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University at Buffalo
- Elysee Nouvet, York University: “Rattling ‘el mundo’: Sensing Power through Piety”
- Ann Burlein, Hofstra University: “Knowledge is Made for Cutting: Using Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic to Re-Situate the Contemporary Prominence of Cognitive Science Accounts of Religion”
- Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University: “Linguistic vs. Discursive Grounds for the Systematic Neglect of Theories of Religion”
- Arthur McCalla, Mount Saint Vincent University: “Benjamin Constant: Theorist of Religion and Modernity”
- Respondent: Nancy Levene, Indiana University
Panel 2: “Talal Asad, Three Decades in Review: The Use and Abuse of Anthropologies of Islam,
Genealogies of Religion, and Formations of the Secular”
Saturday, October 30, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Chair: Arvind Mandair, University of Michigan
- Ananda Abeysekara, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: “The Untranslatability of Religion, the Untranslatability of Life: What Remains Unthought about Talal Asad’s Thinking within Religious Studies”
- Markus Dressler, Istanbul Technical University: “From Sacred-Profane Binaries, Towards the Religo-Secular Continuum, and Back”
- Rosemary Hicks, Tufts University: “Asad, W.C. Smith, and Liberal Critiques of Individualist Ethics and Studies of Islam”
- Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder: “The Distanciation of the Secular”
NAASR Business Meeting
Saturday, October 30, 11:45-12:45 p.m.
Panel 3: “The Legacy of Lévi-Strauss”
Saturday, October 30, 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Chair: Paul Johnson, University of Michigan
- Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University: “Bricolage and the Fractal Dynamics of Ritual: Claude Lévi-Strauss and his Legacy for the Study of Religion and Practice”
- Christopher I. Lehrich, Boston University: “Overture and Finale: Lévi-Strauss, Music, and Religion”
- Paul-François Tremlett, Birkbeck College, University of London: “Lévi-Strauss and Religious Studies”
- Respondent: Ivan Strenski, University of California at Riverside
NAASR Members’ Reception
Time and location TBA
The 2011 Conference will be held at St. Francis University, Loretto, PA. The 2010 Undergraduate Conference was held at Westminster College, Pennsylvania, March 26-28th. Click the conference's title for information and to visit the conference's website for news on the 2010 event.
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