Thursday, April 24, 2014
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
2:30 pm
3:00 pm 3:05 pm 4:30 pm 4:45 pm 6:30 pm |
Registration
Opening Remarks (Zoe Anthony) Culture and Conflict Chair: Maria Dasios, University of Toronto Alexander Cox-Twardowski, Queen's University - "Methodology at the Movies: A Review of Promising Methods and Theories in the Field of Religion and Film" Ian Laplante, Yale University - "Fire Walk With Me: Gender, Superstition and the Tragedy of Bridget Cleary" Rita Biagioli, University of Chicago - "Rethinking Polytheism" Break Keynote Address Dr. Steven Engler, Mount Royal University - "The Rationality of Spirit Possession and the Madness of Methods and Theories" Dinner for conference presenters |
Friday, April 25, 2014
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
8:30 am
9:00 am 10:30 am 10:45 am 12:15 pm 1:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm 5:00 pm |
Breakfast
Liminality and Identity Chair: Nika Kuchuk, University of Toronto August Samie, University of Chicago - “The Study and Practice of Shamanism in Uzbekistan: Orality, Feminization, and Islamization” David Levy, Boston University - “Pastoral Power and "Non-Traditional" Religions in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan” Agata Piękosz, University of Toronto - “Confessions: Hyphenated Identities and the Reflexive Role of the Researcher” Break Engaging Madness Chair: Sayeh Maseimi, University of Toronto Kurosh Amoui Kalareh, Queen’s University - “Cool Islam: Michael Muhammad Knight and the Beats” Basit Iqbal, University of Toronto - “The Madness of Norman O. Brown: Critique and/of the Challenge of Islam” David Carruthers, Queen’s University - “‘[D]estroyed by madness’—Truth and the Animal Utterance in Ginberg’s Howl” Lunch Translation and Experience Chair: Andrew Tebutt, University of Toronto Joshua Sooter, New York University - “The Commensurability of ‘God’: Chinese Muslims, Protestant Missionaries, and Problems of Paradigmatic Translation in Religious Interactions” Cole Sadler, University of Toronto - “The Aesthetic Versus Aesthetics: Phenomenology and the Study of Religious Sensations” Evan Morse, Yale University - “Therapy as Method: Wittgenstein’s Conflicted Mysticism” Break Science and Secularity Chair: Jackie Grossano, University of Toronto Austin Walker, University of Chicago - “Orpheus’ Meditations Upon Things Divine: Science and Secrecy in Francis Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients” Simon Appolloni, University of Toronto - “Ecotheologians Taking Science Seriously: An Assessment of Lisa H. Sideris’s Claim that They Ought to Understand Nature ‘As Science Understands It’” Joseph Blankholm, Columbia University - “Hearing the Secular Speak: A Perspectivist Approach to Religion" Closing Remarks Reception to follow at Pour House (182 Dupont Ave.) |