[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Columbia Religion Graduate Students' Assocation Conference, NEW DATES AND EXTENDED DEADLINE

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From: Jodi Eichler-Levine <jre38@columbia.edu>

** Please Circulate Widely**

The Religion Graduate Students' Association of Columbia University
is now accepting papers for inclusion in their
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:

"Re-Stating Religion: A Conference Reconsidering the Rules"
Thursday-Friday, March 23-24, 2006
Columbia University, New York

**Please note the change of date and extended submission deadline**

Featured Speakers:
*Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
author of _Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity_ (2004)
and _Genealogies of Religion: Disciplines and Reasons of Power in Christianity
and Islam_ (1993)

*Janet Jakobsen, Professor of Women's Studies, Barnard College, and
Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
co-author of _Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of
Religious Tolerance_ (2003); co-editor of "World Secularisms at the Millennium,"
a special edition of _Social Texts_ (2000); and author of _Working Alliances and
the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics_ (1998)

*Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
author of _Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (2005)
and _Technologies of Islamic Piety: Cassette Sermons and the Ethics of
Listening_ (1999)

*David Watt, Professor of Religion, Temple University
author of Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power
(2002) and a work in progress investigating the application of "fundamentalism"
to American Judaism

Description:
This conference is designed to investigate the use of particular narratives
increasingly deployed across historical and geographical contexts to describe
religio-political situations, such as "secularization," "tolerance," and
"fundamentalism." Also under consideration are the ways these tropes are
utilized to discuss particular specific national or international practices and
shape discussions of free exercise, democracy, and human rights.

Proposals for papers will be accepted for consideration under (but not limited
to) the following panels:

-Genealogies of Fundamentalism (exploring how the notion of "fundamentalism" has
been constructed and utilized in various contexts)

-Genealogies of Secularism (a similar project and related theme investigating
how this notion has developed as a prescriptive or prohibited political
position)

-Religion and Government/Governance (questioning the ways particular practices
are described as "religious" and officially or implicitly prescribed or
prohibited)

-"Tolerating" Difference (examining the history and efficacy of tolerance as a
model for negotiating conflicts)

-Religions of Human Rights (looking into the possible connections between
developing discourses of human rights and indices of religious ethics)

-Original Accounts (discussing narratives of origins various political parties
or constituencies hold to as foundational, and their associated prescriptions
for religious-governmental relations)

Proposals will also be considered for full panels dealing with related themes.
Abstracts for 20-25 min presentations should be two pages in length and include
a short bio or CV.

Please direct all submissions to Rosemary Hicks rrh2103@columbia.edu

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 December, 2005

Jodi Eichler-Levine
<jre38@columbia.edu>