[Bilimsel Haber] NOTICE: "Re-Stating Religion" Conference

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

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

***second announcement (minor changes)********

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The Religion Graduate Students' Association of Columbia University
is accepting registration now through March 17, 2006,  for:

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

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/conference/


Featured Guests:

Keynote Speaker:
*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)

Closing Discussants:
*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)

*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 investigates 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 discourses of free exercise, democracy, and human rights.


For schedules, panel descriptions, abstracts, and participant bios, 
please go
to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/conference/


Columbia University Sponsors:
Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Institute for 
Research on
Women and Gender, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and Graduate Student
Activities Council

Jodi Eichler-Levine
<jre38@columbia.edu>