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Additional Meetings
Call for Papers
Some Additional Meetings post Call for Papers before the AAR Annual Meeting. The calls are administered outside the AAR office. Please read the Call carefully for deadlines and direct all questions to the contact listed.
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Call for Papers:
Assisi 2012
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Gender, Interfaith and Peacemaking Study Group
North American Paul Tillich Society
Phoenix Rising Academy
Assisi 2012: ‘Where We Dwell in Common’: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century
(Deadline: June 15, 2011)
We invite proposals for short papers (15 minutes max.) and poster sessions. This call is now live.
- Group and joint proposals, as well as proposals for sessions and themes are welcome (max 3 papers per session).
- Deadline for submission of all proposals: June 15th 2011.
- Please send abstract of 250 words with brief 150 words CV/Biog.
- Conference Registration will open by January 15th 2011. Please note: due to limited space, all registrations to participate must be made in advance with a closing date of December 1st 2011.
- Please submit all proposals to assisi2012@gmail.com.
Colloquium on Violence and Religion session at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Deadline: March 15, 2011):
COV&R is a Related Scholarly Organization (RSO) of the American Academy of Religion that is dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René Girard’s mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the genesis and maintenance of culture.
For our 2011 session at the AAR Meeting in San Francisco, we welcome paper proposals on the following topics and themes: Mimesis and apocalyptic: multidisciplinary approaches (literature, history, theology) and times (Biblical, European colonialism, contemporary religious or political movements); spirituality, neuroscience, and mimesis (e.g. mirror neurons); alternatives to acquisitive mimesis through reconciliation without scapegoats; critical reflections on Girard’s Battling to the End; abundance and scarcity as drivers of violent mimesis.
Proposals of no longer than 500 words should be submitted by March 15 to martha.reineke@uni.edu (Martha Reineke, Coordinator, COV&R at the AAR Annual Meeting, Professor of Religion, U. of Northern Iowa). Please also see our co-sponsored session with the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group on film and mimetic theory. For information on proposals, submission procedures, and deadline for the co-sponsored session see: http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=419&Itemid=497
Gender, Interfaith and Peacemaking Study Group invites proposals for a pre-AAR meeting (San Francisco, Friday, November 18, 2011) on "Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Peacemaking in and across Religions." (Deadline: June 1, 2011)
We welcome contributions using a variety of disciplines and religious perspectives which apply theoretical and methodological sophistication exploring questions about the role and agency of women in inter-religious and peacemaking activities. Possible approaches, for example, can be based on textual, sociological, or anthropological sources, or use emerging technologies, news media, reports of meetings, individual experiences and narratives.
One of the goals of this meeting is to come to a joint publication on the role of gender and women's participation in and influence on inter-religious and peacemaking activities.
Contributions can be sent to Nelly Van Doorn at haaften123@yahoo.com.
North American Paul Tillich Society (NAPTS) welcomes proposals for its annual meeting which will take place on November 17-19, 2011 in connection with the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in San Francisco, California, November 19-22, 2011. We welcome proposals for individual papers and panels on the following issues:
- Tillich and pedagogy, particularly teaching Dynamics of Faith;
- Papers in response to Religious Internationalism: The Ethics of War and Peace in the Thought of Paul Tillich by Matthew Lon Weaver;
- Tillich and Judaism/Jewish thinkers; and
- Papers in response to The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich.
There is not a deadline at this time. Proposals may be sent to Courtney Wilder at wilder@midlandu.edu.
Demons In The Academy? Renouncing Rejected Knowledge, Again.
Many scholars of Western Esotericism support that its validation as a field within mainstream academia lies in the application of empiricism as the primary research method. Yet this perspective disregards a defining constituent of the object of study, namely, the symbolic perception which might also be termed imaginal epistemology. Pejoratively termed “religionism,” carrying connotations of inadequate scholarship, this formative element of esoteric thought has become the new pariah of the academic study of the field broadly termed Western Esotericism in its current form.
Phoenix Rising Academy wishes to explore the transdisciplinary options that may lead to more balanced and integrative approaches, while drawing attention to the dangers we perceive in the insistence on objective and disinterested empiricism as the sole acceptable method for the study of these topics. To this end we invite submissions for our symposium in connection with the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in San Francisco, California, November 19-22, 2011.
Discussion tracks
- Legitimate ways of knowing: the place of experiential knowledge and/or symbolic perception as a form of research.
- What can we learn from each other? Bridging the practitioner-scholar divide.
- The esoteric polemic and rejected knowledge: a valid concern or a baseless claim?
- Why are history and discourse analysis not enough?
- Paradigms for integration and applied transdisciplinary methodology.
Guidelines for proposal submission
We accept two presentation formats: 15-20 minute papers, or 5-minute statements.
Please email all submissions of no more than 250 words to phoenix@phoenixrising.org.gr by July 15th 2011, marking “PRA Symposium” in the subject line.
Visit: http://www.phoenixrising.org.gr/en/events/conferences-symposia/call-for-papers-demons-in-the-academy-renouncing-rejected-knowledge-again/ for the full CFP.
