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Call for Papers Theme: Religion and Migration Subtitle: Ways of Knowing Type: 6th Annual Graduate Conference on Religion Institution: Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Location: Cambridge, MA (USA) Date: 26.–28.10.2017 Deadline: 31.5.2017 __________________________________________________ Central Theme: Religion and Migration The central theme for this year’s conference is “Religion and Migration.” We take a capacious approach to understanding how human communities and religions have long engaged the question of movement across time and space. We especially encourage papers that engage the complex relationship between religion, mobility, and diaspora in a global age. Papers might focus on the religious lives of migrants; religious narratives about journey, travel, and passage; histories and legacies of mass migration by particular religious communities; or changes in religious landscapes as a result of emigration and immigration. Proposals might also interrogate the role of nation in constricting or enabling religious movement, religious texts that deal with themes of departure and arrival, religious responses to emerging migrant flows, and methodological approaches to the study of migration and religion. We welcome a broad range of papers that address the theme of religion and migration from a range of methodological approaches and in the context of various religious traditions, historical periods, and geographical regions. General Call for Papers We seek papers that explore religious practices and modes of knowing, especially in relation to this year’s central theme, “Religion and Migration”. We welcome the use of all sorts of theoretical tools, including discourse analysis, gender theory, queer theory, race theory, disability theory, postcolonial theory, performance theory, and ritual theory. Papers may focus on any period, region, tradition, group, or person. They may address a set of practices, texts, doctrines, or beliefs. Projects that are primarily sociological, anthropological, theological, ethical, textual, historical, or philosophical are welcome, as are projects that draw on multiple disciplines. Possible approaches include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Exploration of a specific way of knowing, being, and engaging the world in relation to religion 2. Historical, sociological, and/or anthropological analyses of the cultural processes that support a specific religious discourse or practice, its authoritative structures, and/or its strategies of inclusion and exclusion 3. Analyses of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and/or gender with respect to religious texts, practices, or performances 4. Comparative examinations of religious texts and/or their interpretations, with attention to the historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and/ or intellectual contexts that mediate and delimit different interpretative strategies and practices 5. Analyses of the interplay between religion and scientific, moral, and/or legal discourses, practices, and authorities 6. Theological construction or analysis of a particular normative framework, which critically and/or comparatively engages one or more religious traditions 7. Critical analyses of the scholarly production and dissemination of knowledge on religion Special Call for Papers In addition to the General Call for Papers, the conference will also feature four special modules devoted to each of the following themes: 1. Objects and Orientations: Materiality and Spatiality in the Study of Religion 2. Bodily Ways of Sharing Knowledge 3. American Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century 4. Science/Religion Fiction and the Making of New Futures See the full call for papers (including special calls and annual theme) here: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/gradreligionconference/files/cfp-harvard-wok17.pdf Submission Instructions Individual Papers: Please submit a 300-word abstract explaining the topic, main argument, and methodology of the project. Pre-Organized Panels: Proposals for panels on a particular topic may also be submitted to either the general or special calls. These should include three to five papers, including a respondent paper. Please submit: 1) a 300-word summary of the focus and purpose of the panel, specifying how each paper contributes to the overarching theme; 2) a 300-word abstract for each paper explaining the topic, main argument, and methodology of the project; 3) the name and contact information of the panel organizer/chair. Proposals are due by Wednesday, May 31st through the WOK 2017 Submission Portal: https://goo.gl/forms/GfbstgRvbWc1WHtt1 Contact: Eli Nelson, Conference Coordinator Science, Religion, and Culture Program Harvard Divinity School Harvard University Andover 306, 45 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Email: wokconference.harvard...@gmail.com Web: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
