[Discussion] CFP: Columbia Univ. Relig. Gread Student Conference

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From: Rosemary Hicks <rrh2103@columbia.edu>

Columbia University
Graduate Student Association
Department of Religion

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Spring 2005 Conference

=93Identity, Representation, and Narrative in the Studies of Religion=94

Dates: March 31-April 1, 2005
Location: Columbia University
Keynote Speaker: Robert Orsi, Harvard, 2003 President of the American
Academy of Religion and author of Between Heaven and Earth: The
Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (2004)

The Graduate Student Association of the Religion Department at Columbia
University is soliciting papers for its forthcoming 2005 conference.
The conference will focus on methodological and theoretical issues
applied to the studies of religions, specifically concerning the ways in
which religious identities are conceptualized, recorded, and represented
in both practice and academic discourse.

Featured Presentations:
-Mark Taylor, Williams College and Columbia University, author of
Confidence Games (2004), on the future of identity politics in
religious studies.
-Religion and Media in the United States
-The History of Religious Studies at Columbia University

**Possible panels include, but are not restricted to:
Religious Identity in/during/through Migration
Identity and Conversion
=93The History of the History of Religion=94
Hagiography and Biography
Lived Religion as Methodology
Psychology as Analytical Lens
Intertextuality
Religion and Media

Please send abstracts of 1-2 pages.  Papers must be no longer than 10
pages (20 minute presentation length).  Complete panel proposals in
keeping with the theme will also be considered.
Deadline: December 20th, 2004.

Submissions and information:
Rosemary Hicks
rrh2103@columbia.edu

Rosemary Hicks
<rrh2103@columbia.edu>