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NAASR 2024 Annual Meeting
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About our program: The 2024 NAASR Annual Meeting will provide a space to explore contemporary theoretical gains that have a bearing on and/or implications for academic studies of religion. Doing so will not only diversify our conversational points of analysis but also demand a sharper focus on NAASR’s own specific theoretical commitments. Inasmuch as religious studies is a necessarily interdisciplinary field, we will think about and discuss scholarly inroads and debates that newly energize our analyses of discourses on religion. Many of us engage with such discourses in our own work, but bringing them to bear more directly on the NAASR program will hopefully refocus our organization as a hub for scholarly interlocutions by way of publication and analysis. The motivation for doing so is a drive to make our scholarly critiques all the clearer, expanding our critical canon by remembering that theory is not a defensive response but a generator of new knowledge. To that end, we will not recapitulate academic “greatest hits” within social theory but instead think about the current work that is exciting us but which may be unfamiliar to our colleagues within NAASR.
[ABSTRACTS AND OUTLINE of participant presentations are available below]
Virtual Programming | Saturday, November 16
(Click here to register and receive a Zoom link for these sessions.)
Meet the Editors: The Place of NAASR Publications in the Field
12:00-1:30pm EST
K. Merinda Simmons, Editor of Concepts in the Study of Religion: Critical Primers
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Editor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion: Key Thinkers
Mitsutoshi Horii and Tisa Wenger, Editors of Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
Emily Crews, Editor of NAASR Working Papers
Keynote Address
Cobbled Fictions: Lessons from Cultural History in Reception and Aesthetics
2:30-4:00pm EST
Robyn Faith Walsh, University of Miami
The grand fiction of the lily-white art and built environment of ancient Greece and Rome has largely been debunked in recent years. Likewise, of late there has been greater recognition of the tattered and often paltry state of our manuscript traditions in fields like early Christianity. All of this has necessitated self-reflection in certain corners of religious studies about the assumptions we perpetuate in our scholarship. This is a reckoning that has taken place within cultural and art history, classics, and related disciplines and there is much that we can still learn from their examples. In this keynote, I will discuss how cultural aesthetics intersect with our theoretical approaches to history-telling by reexamining the museum and tourism industries and how they have packaged a highly romantic idea of the past that we have been reticent to challenge. I will also discuss the real-world implications for continuing to authorize an ancient Mediterranean imaginary steeped in the aesthetics of violence and colonialization.
Virtual Happy Hour
4:00pm EST
In-Person Programming | Friday, November 22-Sunday, November 24
Friday, November 22
Human/Subject/World
10:00-11:50am
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
This roundtable will engage with questions and topics related but not limited to: subjectivity and data networks, critical access studies, waste studies, digital technologies, governmentality and global religions, indigenous studies, queer theory, trauma studies, and structures of time.
Tenzan Eaghll, ISIC, RMUTK, Bangkok
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn
Matt Sheedy, University of Bonn
Lauren Lovestone, Florida State University
Interrelation and Cognition
1:00-2:50pm
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
This roundtable will engage with questions and topics related but not limited to: affect theory, cognitive studies (including cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and analytic philosophy of mind), structuring dynamics of belief and social groups, and critical methodologies in studies of history and text.
Chris Jones, Washburn University
Daniel Miller, Landmark College
Cooper Minister, Shenandoah University
Structure and Infrastructure
3:00-4:50pm
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
This roundtable will engage with questions and topics related but not limited to: infrastructure studies, animal studies, theories of nationalism and social conservatism, neo-liberalism and deregulated markets, formalism and literary theory, fiscal/monetary studies, and theories of the “gimmick.”
Talia Burnside, Florida State University
Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University
Mike Altman, University of Alabama
Saturday, November 23
Business Meeting
11:00am-12:00pm
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
Cross-currents: Interdisciplinary Applications of Religious Studies
1:00-2:50pm
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
While the other sessions will focus on the potential influence of other disciplines on religious studies, this roundtable will consider where and how other disciplines can benefit from greater familiarity with established research in our field. Where are the findings of our field currently being applied? Where might/ought our findings be utilized? What might we as scholars do to translate our findings more effectively for other disciplines?
Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California—Santa Cruz
Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania
Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University
Retrospective on Jonathan Z. Smith’s Drudgery Divine
4:00-6:30pm
Convention Center, 20A (Upper Level East)
Co-sponsored with Rethinking Christian Origins Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature
This panel offers a reassessment of and re-engagement with Jonathan Z. Smith’s Drudgery Divine. Panelists will discuss and reflect on the legacy of Smith’s work on the study of religion in antiquity, and theory of religion more broadly. The panel is a joint session with the Rethinking Christian Origins seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University, Presiding
Karen Devries, University of Colorado—Colorado Springs
Russell McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University
Deane Galbraith, University of Otago
Sarah Rollens, Rhodes College
Robyn Walsh, University of Miami
Brian Rainey, Interdenominational Theological Center
Theron Clay Mock, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität—München
Sunday, November 24
NAASR Working Group Meeting: American Examples
9:00-11:50am
Grand Hyatt, Balboa A-C
This working group meeting is for existing members of the American Examples research workshop, as well as those possibly interested in participating in the future.
2023 NAASR Annual Meeting
2023 NAASR Annual Meeting Program
Exploring the “Ecologies” of Scholarship in the Study of Religion
#naasr2023
ONLINE (PRE-CONFERENCE) Program
Saturday, November 11, 2023 (via Zoom link)
Register for the online (pre-conference) program here.
MEET THE EDITORS: Religion in 5 Minutes Series (Equinox Publishing)
12:00-1:30pm EST
Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama), Series Co-Editor
Natalie Avalos (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity University)
Angela Puca (Leeds Trinity University)
Teemu Taira (University of Helsinki)
Emily Crews (University of Chicago)
Rebekka King (MTSU), Presiding
BREAK (30min-1hr)
2023 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
2:00-4:00pm EST
Leslie Dorrough Smith (Avila University)
A Different Type of Climate Crisis: Thinking and Teaching With Critical Interdisciplinarity When the University is on Fire
Annual Virtual “Happy Hour”
6:00pm EST
IN-PERSON PROGRAM
November 17-18, San Antonio, TX
Friday, November 17, 2023
Research Environment
10:00 am – 11:50 am
Hilton, The Stetson
Prespondent:
Sarah Dees (Iowa State University)
Panelists:
Allison Isidore (University of Iowa)
Rebecca Janzen (University of South Carolina)
Stacie Swain (University of Victoria)
Javan Smith (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Presiding
Dissemination Platform
1:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Hilton, The Stetson
Prespondent:
Lauren Horn Griffin (Louisiana State University)
Panelists:
Jacob Barrett (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Thomas J. Carrico (Independent Scholar)
Daniel Miller (Landmark College)
Trevor Linn (University of Alabama)
Edith Szanto (University of Alabama)
Anastasia Popham (Nebraska Wesleyan University), Presiding
Institutional Climate
3:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Hilton, The Stetson
Prespondent:
Rita Lester (Nebraska Wesleyan University)
Panelists:
Savannah Finver (Ohio State University) & Craig Martin (St. Thomas Aquinas College)
Chris Jones (Washburn University)
Matthew Baldwin (Mars Hill University)
Chris Miller (University of Ottawa)
Allison Isidore (University of Alabama), Presiding
NAASR 2023 Reception
Mad Dog British Pub Riverwalk (123 Losoya St., San Antonio, TX 78205)
7:00-9:00pm
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Sociocultural Location
1:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Hilton, The Stetson
Prespondent:
Sean McCloud (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Panelists:
Vaia Touna (University of Alabama)
Lech Trzcionkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Mary Hamner (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Xochiquetzal Luna Morales (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Camryn Melroy (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Presiding
BUSINESS MEETING
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Hilton, The Stetson
NAASR 2023 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
NAASR 2023 Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS
Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion
The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the historical, comparative, structural, theoretical, and cognitive approaches to the study of religion.” Since its inception, NAASR has welcomed an assorted group of scholars to work across these entrenched disciplinary boundaries and wide-ranging areas of expertise. This synergy cultivates a level of transdisciplinary inquiry into the very idea of the category of “religion” that otherwise might be unattainable. Yet, this emphasis on transdisciplinary engagement mutes the profound impact of this underlying scholarly diversity on the intellectual exchanges and disputes that arise in the so-called critical study of religion.
It is crucial to also acknowledge that many factors shape the scholar’s capacity to create, curate, and ultimately critique “religion” as an object of study. What are the unique paths that individual scholars travel to arrive at this shared endeavor? How do these differences matter? In what ways do their specific educational, institutional, and broader social locations inform their perspectives on religion and the contours of scholarly debate? Examining the elements that comprise the ecology of the field provides opportunities to sharpen our scholarly pursuits.
The 2023 NAASR Annual Meeting will explore the “ecologies” in which scholars imagine religion. Specifically, NAASR invites proposals for papers that target one of the following “niches,” each of which establishes parameters for the scholarly process:
(1) The Research Environment—how do specific types of research spaces (ex., archival, digital, ethnographic, etc.) determine the range or type of choices that scholars can make? How do different physical spaces (ex., home office, a local coffee shop) impact the creative processes of scholarly production?
(2) Dissemination Platform—how do specific platforms for disseminating research (ex., peer-review journals, publishers, mass media, podcasts, etc.) shape the substance, form, and purpose of scholarship?
(3) Institutional Climate—how do institutions (ex., graduate training, rank/position of the scholar, administrations, public vs. private institutions, the state, markets, etc.) play a role in framing scholarship on religion?
(4) Socio-cultural lLocation—how does the embeddedness of the scholar in wider social structures (e.g., those related to race, gender, class, religious background, occupational history, etc.) inform their scholarly practices and pursuits?
NAASR is especially interested in sessions that can represent the breadth of the field in terms of rank (graduate students, senior scholars), areas of expertise and disciplinary training, and socio-cultural backgrounds. Paper proposals can emphasize the individual’s personal/anecdotal experiences or more general observations in relation to one of these “niches” as long as the substance of the presentations isare grounded in robust scholarly or empirical support.
Submissions for proposals should each:
1. Identify the area (one of the four immediately above) on which they will focus
2. Provide a brief (500-word max) statement that outlines the basic elements of their response to the identified theme.
The sessions for the annual meeting will follow a roundtable format exploring each of these four (4) themes. Participants will submit full papers that apply their expertise to the designated topic one month prior to the meeting (approximately early October 2023). Each session will feature a “Pre-spondent,” an invited scholar who will introduce the panelists and offer substantive remarks on the topic. Participants will have 8-10 minutes to summarize their papers and will be followed by informal discussion between panelists and the general audience for roughly one hour.
Ultimately the aim is to publish these sessions as an edited volume under the NAASR Working Papers series with Equinox publishing. Therefore, by submitting a proposal for the annual meeting, you are agreeing to eventually publish a version of this paper as a chapter in an edited volume in the NAASR working papers series.
Please submit your proposals Monday, March 13, 2023 at 5pm ET to the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGT7xXH3Y_0wbQ3nfXKr_xMrwpwgH8m3mPuJJFMqg4J4nGDA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Direct any questions or concerns about this process to dennislorusso@gmail.com
NAASR 2022 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 8TH**
2022 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Call For Papers
Critique in the Study of Religion: Past, Present, and Future
The 2021 Annual Meeting addressed the idea of “crisis” as an organizing principle for practitioners and scholars of religion. Krínein (Gr.), from which the English term “crisis” derives, also gives us the word “critique.” Many of our members have sought to position NAASR as an intellectual space that emphasizes and facilitates the critical study of religion across a wide range of specializations. However, what counts as “critique” remains highly contested, as does the question of whether such a term best encapsulates the primary mission of NAASR. What exactly does “critical religious studies” imply? Is it a distinctive set of analytic approaches or rather rhetorics deployed in defense of particular intellectual or professional positions? To what degree does adopting the moniker of “critic” help or hinder our scholarly vision? In what ways can the critical study of religion make important interventions in the current intellectual trends shaping the academic study of religion today?
The program for 2022 will explore the role of “critique” in the study of religion as it applies to four areas:
1. Theory: What theoretical frameworks have been or currently are productive/useful for performing “critique” in the study of religion? And which theoretical frameworks have critical religion scholars not adequately engaged with?
2. Method: What methodological criteria should constitute a “critical” approach to studying religion — and what’s the case for these rather than others?
3. Teaching: How should critical religious studies manifest in pedagogy? Is the critique deployed in producing scholarship about religion the same as the critique used in teaching that scholarship, i.e., in religious studies pedagogy? If so, in what sense? If different, how are they different?
4. Scholar: Does being a critical scholar require distance from or disinterest in our data? If so, to what degree? Is being a critical scholar of religion incompatible pursuing other political and activistic commitments? If not, how does one balance these responsibly?
NAASR invites submissions that substantially respond to any one of these four provocations and explore the implications for the field. Submissions for possible respondents must each:
1. Identify the area (one of the four immediately above) on which they will focus
2. Provide a brief (500-word max) statement that outlines the basic elements of their response to the identified theme.
The sessions for the annual meeting will follow a roundtable format exploring each of these four (4) themes. Participants will submit full papers that apply their expertise to the designated topic one month prior to the meeting (approximately early October 2022). Each session will feature an invited scholar who will introduce the panelists and offer substantive remarks on the topic. Participants will have six minutes to summarize their papers and will be followed by informal discussion between panelists and general audience for roughly one hour. Ultimately the aim is to publish these sessions as an edited volume under the NAASR Working Papers series with Equinox publishing.
We welcome scholars from diverse areas of expertise and disciplinary training.
Please upload submissions on our Google Form: https://forms.gle/tBGymCaYpdT9MwJ89 no later than 5pm EST March 8, 2022.
Email any questions to dennislorusso@gmail.com
NAASR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JANUARY 31, 2022
NAASR Media and Communications Coordinator
NAASR is looking for a graduate student or early career scholar to coordinate its social media and other online communications. Under the supervision of NAASR President, Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer, this individual will support social media content creation and operations.
This position will come with a Travel and Conference honorarium.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor NAASR social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
- Create cross-platform content promoting activities, publications, and other initiatives by NAASR and NAASR members.
- Promote NAASR’s position as a scholarly society dedicated to historical, critical, and social scientific approaches to the study of religion, as well as a relentlessly reflexive critique of the theories, methods, and categories used in such study.
Qualifications:
- Enthusiastic and knowledgeable about social media.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to take and upload digital photos.
- Initiative, sound judgement, and ability to work independently and complete assigned tasks within identified timeframes.
- Keen attention to detail when proofreading, copyediting, and fact-checking.
- Comfortable utilizing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WordPress.
- Familiarity with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Email template program.
Opportunities:
- Gain valuable social media experience and proficiency in communicating to a large audience.
- Learn how to participate in a creative and collaborative content-production process.
- Network with NAASR members and other scholars in the field of religious studies and cognate fields.
Applications:
Email applications to NAASR President, Rebekka King (rebekka.king@mtsu.edu) by January 31, 2022.
To apply, send your CV, a brief cover letter describing how you can contribute to NAASR communications, and how the position might be beneficial to you. Please attach 2 – 3 examples of your best work on any social media platform.
This position is a volunteer position, which includes a travel stipend to attend the NAASR annual meeting.
New Collaboration Between NAASR, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and The Bulletin for the Study of Religion
We have an exciting announcement for members. Thanks to a generous donation, NAASR will be partnering with The Bulletin for the Study of Religion (Equinox Publishing) and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, to provide all NAASR members with a subscription to the Bulletin. This will include a print subscription, mailed to each member, in addition to online access.
Renew Membership here: NAASR Website
Update address here: Google Forms NAASR Member Information
A bit more about the Bulletin:The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is one of the longest, continually-running publications in the North American field. Published by Equinox and produced by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, the Bulletin begins a new chapter as a magazine for the international field. Richard Newton serves as Editor of this feature-based publication that highlights currents at all the sites where scholars carry out their work. With field-oriented peer-reviewed articles, department-level innovations, and conversations with colleagues, the Bulletin keeps you in the loop. Want to learn more about the Digital Humanities? We’ve got you covered with The Download. Trying to put your academic skills and knowledge to work. Take a look at those who’ve done it well in The Profession. Got a burning question, Sage D’Vice’s column will help you work it out. All this and more is in the new Bulletin! And NAASR is excited to share that each member will receive a subscription–a fitting way to celebrate fifty years of the Bulletin!
We are very happy to be working with Richard Newton, the new Editor of the Bulletin, to bring this long-established (this is the 50 year anniversary) and newly-revamped publication to your homes or offices each quarter.
To be sure you receive all issues, please renew your membership ASAP, and to be sure we have the correct mailing address for you, please fill out the GOOGLE FORM with your most recent information. If you have already paid for 2021 (or are a lifetime member) but are unsure which address you have on file with us, please fill out the Google form. You can add a note to me in the comment box letting me know you are just updating your info.
Deadline to renew membership or join in order to receive all 2021 issues in print is April 23. If you pay dues later, you may miss the first issue, and we cannot send back issues. Please be sure to renew your NAASR membership for 2021 now. Our new partnership with Equinox and the University of Alabama will be in addition to the online subscription to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill) that you already receive as a NAASR member. That will continue as well.
Renew Membership here: NAASR Website
Update address here: Google Forms NAASR Member Information
NAASR 2020 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program
#naasr2020
The North American Association for the Study of Religion would like to announce that we are canceling the in-person meeting this year and replacing it with an online virtual meeting. While we hope progress continues in the fight against COVID-19, we believe that travel and group meetings might unnecessarily jeopardize the health of our members and other attendees. A virtual meeting allows us to gather without putting ourselves and others at risk.
In the coming months, we will release the schedule for the virtual meeting (including all panels and the business meeting) and will share the link with anyone who is interested. Thank you to everyone for understanding, and we look forward to seeing you virtually in November and then hopefully in person for 2021’s meeting in San Antonio.
In the meantime, we are happy to announce and to share our preliminary program. This year we are breaking with the format we used for the last several years and are instead hosting four roundtables explicitly focusing on applied method and theory.
First Panel: Class, Identity, and Religion
Presiding:
Andie Alexander (Emory University)
Presenting:
Andrew Durdin (Florida State University)
James Dennis Lorusso (Georgia State University)
Cody Musselman (Yale University)
Jeremy Posadas (Austin College)
Matt Sheedy (University of Bonn)
Merinda Simmons (University of Alabama)
Second Panel: Pure Christian America: “Purity” as a Concept for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Christian Nationalism in the US
Presiding:
Daniel Miller (Landmark College)
Presenting:
Daniel Miller (Landmark College)
Bradley Onishi ( Skidmore College)
Rima Vesely-Flad (Warren Wilson College)
Sara Moslener (University of Central Michigan)
Third Panel: Data and Theory in Computational and Statistical Modeling of Religion
Presiding:
Wesley Wildman (Boston University
Presenting:
Ann Taves (UC Santa Barbara)
LeRon Shults (University of Agder, Kristiansand)
Kate Stockly (Boston University)
Wesley Wildman (Boston University)
Connor Wood (Center for Mind and Culture)
Fourth Panel: The Localized Politics of Defining Religion
Presiding:
Jacob Barret (University of Alabama)
Presenting:
Emily Crews (University of Chicago)
Brad Stoddard (McDaniel College)
Savannah Finver (The Ohio State University)
Michael Graziano (University of Northern Iowa)
Richard Newton (University of Alabama)
#naasr2020 • Nov. 20-22
NAASR 2020 Call for Papers
Show Us Your Data: Method and Theory in Action
Call for Proposals
The past five years, NAASR’s meetings focused on specific themes (theory, method, data, key categories, and the field). These meetings addressed a range of topics—some familiar, some new—and resulted in insightful discussions at the meetings and beyond. These meetings and discussions tended to dwell on the theoretical. At NAASR 2020, however, we are asking participants to focus on their data, showing how method and theory inform their work in their local data domains.
Breaking with the model used for the past several annual meetings, we have an open call inviting participants to submit roundtable discussions (each roundtable should include five-seven participants). We will also accept individual submissions or partial panels seeking additional participants, although priority will be given to complete roundtables. The participants in each panel will collectively complete their presentations within one hour, leaving roughly an hour for open discussion.
This is therefore a call for roundtables. Each submission should include:
- a working title
- a list of participants
- a summary of the broader topic the roundtable will address
- a brief description of each participant’s work
- reflections on the roundtable’s larger theoretical intervention(s)/contribution(s) to the field
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, area studies, reflections on influential scholarly works, and roundtables on specific topics.
We invite scholars from diverse data domains to contribute to each roundtable. Each submission should also include graduate students and early career scholars.
Following the precedent set over the past several years, the aim once again is to publish these workshops as a book under the NAASR Working Papers series with Equinox Publishing.
Please send complete panels or proposals as a file attachment by March 1, 2020, to NAASR VP Rebekka King at rebekka.king@mtsu.edu
#naasr2020 • Nov. 20-23, Boston, MA
NAASR 2019 Annual Meeting Program
#naasr2019 • Nov. 22-24 • San Diego, CA
“The Field”: Assessing and Critiquing the Academic Study of Religion
We are pleased to announce the program for the 2019 Annual Meeting.
We are still accepting applications for participants for our graduate workshops.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Teaching the Field
10:00 AM-11:50 AM Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Main paper author: Leslie Dorrough Smith (Avila University)
Chair: Tommy Carrico (Florida State University)
Respondents:
Rita Lester (Nebraska Wesleyan University)
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson (Dawson College)
Leonie C. Geiger (University of Groningen)
Martha Smith Roberts (Denison University)
History of the Field
1:00 PM-2:50 PM Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Main Paper Author: Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama)
Chair: Melody Everest (University of Alberta)
Respondents:
James Edmonds (Arizona State University)
D. Jamil Grimes (Middle Tennessee State University)
Andrew Durdin (Florida State University)
Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University)
The Role and Influence of Private Funding of the Field
3:00 PM-4:50 PM Convention Center-25A (Upper Level East)
Main paper author: Gregory Alles (McDaniel College)
Chair: Allison Isidore (University of Alabama)
Respondents:
Joshua Patterson (University of Georgia)
Michael J. Altman (University of Alabama)
John W. McCormack (Aurora University)
Natalie Avalos (University of Colorado-Boulder)
NAASR Reception 7:00PM-9:00PM
Location: Half Door Brewing Company, 903 Island Ave, San Diego, California 92101
Saturday, November 23, 2019
International Perspectives on the Field
10:00 AM-11:50 AM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level)
Main paper author: Rosalind I. J. Hackett (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Chair: Sierra Lawson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Respondents:
F. LeRon Shults (University of Agder)
Tenzan Eaghll (Maidol University)
Vaia Touna (University of Alabama)
Yasmina Burezah (University of Bonn)
NAASR Business Meeting
Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level)
Sunday, November 24, 2019
NAASR Graduate Student Workshops*
All graduate workshops held on Sunday, November 24, 2019 in Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Session One: Job Workshop – 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama) and Matt Sheedy (University of Manitoba)
Session Two: Academic Publishing for Graduate Students – 11:10 AM-12:10 PM
Emily Clark (Gonzaga University) and Andie Alexander (Emory University)
Graduate Student Luncheon – 12:10 PM-1:10 PM
Session Three: Navigating the Politics of Academia – 1:10 PM-2:10 PM
Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University) and Richard Newton (University of Alabama)
Session Four: Alternative Careers for Religious Studies Scholars – 2:20 PM-3:20 PM
Brad Stoddard (McDaniel College) and Emily Crews (University of Alabama)
*Scholars of all concentrations within the field of Religious Studies are welcome to join the workshop—whether a NAASR member or not. Space is limited, so application does not guarantee participation, although we intend to accommodate as many people as we can. To register, please email NAASR VP Rebekka King at rebekka.king@mtsu.edu by no later than October 18, 2019. In this request to register please include your current degree or professional career stage and identify which session or sessions you would like to attend.
NAASR Graduate Student Workshops CFP
NAASR Working Groups 2019
American Examples
Organized by Michael J. Altman
Critical Considerations of “Race” in Religious Studies
Organized by Emily Crews, Richard Newton, and K. Merinda Simmons
#naasr2019 • Nov. 22-24 • San Diego, CA
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