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NAASR 2024 Annual Meeting CFP
2024 Call for Papers!
Interlocutions
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 should 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, let’s 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.
We thus invite submissions that invoke contemporary scholarship (published within the last ten years) from a discourse outside the disciplinary constraints of religious studies and discuss its utility for academic studies of religion as such. Possible areas of emphasis—whether applied to ancient or present-day contexts—include but are not at all limited to:
Aesthetic Studies
Affect Theory
Ancient and Pre-Modern Materialities
Art History
Black and Africana Studies (including approaches such as Afro-futurism and Afro-pessimism)
Cognitive Science and Cognitive Psychology
Diaspora/Migration Studies
Global Development Studies
Heterodox Economics and New Class Critique
Indigenous Studies
Latinx Studies
Literary Theory
Queer Theory and Contemporary Gender Studies
Postcolonial Theory
Posthumanism, Cybernetics, and/or Media Theory
Post-Marxist Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Philosophy of Nature and Environmental Theory
Political Science and Legal Studies
Submissions for individual presentations should consist of a brief (500-word max) abstract identifying a particular area of emphasis, presenting the basic arc of a contemporary thread of scholarship (whether a specific thinker, text, or discussion/debate), and explaining its significance for discourse on “religion.”
In lieu of submitting full papers in advance of the meeting, participants will submit an outline of key ideas from this thread of scholarship and a brief annotated bibliography (which may consist only of one text depending on the presentation’s focus) in early October 2024. Panels will consist of presenters and discussants selected by the program committee, talking together about how and why they find a certain text/scholar/discussion useful to their work in religious studies.
Ultimately, the aim is to publish these sessions as an edited volume within the NAASR Working Papers series with Equinox. Therefore, by submitting a proposal for the annual meeting, you are agreeing to contribute a version of your remarks as a chapter in said volume.
Proposals are due by March 15 at 5pm EST! Click here to submit a proposal.
Direct any questions about this process to Merinda Simmons.
NAASR Note: Religious Studies, Liberal Arts, and the Public University
***Deadline extended to 31 January 2015***
The following CFP might be of interest to NAASR members:
Religious Studies, Liberal Arts, and the Public University
The conference will examine religious studies methods, curriculum, pedagogy, and ethos in terms of the field’s relationship to two key social locations, the liberal arts and the public university. Proposals are invited for papers and presentations on this theme. The organizers are particularly interested in the following topics: the intersection or disjunction of religious studies methods with the fields of humanities and social sciences; what religious studies contributes to liberal education; disciplinary ethos in the context of public universities bound by the First Amendment; the public university as fertile context for religious studies as an analytical discipline; history of religious studies at public universities; curricular and pedagogical challenges of religious studies in both liberal arts and public university contexts; the departmental model and its alternatives, especially the presence of religious studies as part of multidisciplinary departments; the articulation of the value of religious studies in an age of austerity; and particular challenges for religious studies in online or hybrid pedagogy. Proposals falling under the conference title but not specifically listed here will also be considered. Please send proposals (250 word maximum) by email attachment to Professor Rebecca Raphael at rr23 at txstate dot edu by January 31, 2015. The conference will be held April 10-11 at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Philosophy, and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in Humanities.
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