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26-30.08.2008
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| Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality
10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
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The main aim of the conference is to deal with public discourse on diversity, cross cultural communication and at the same time the lack of discussion about underestimated aspects of mutuality, including the post colonial, post imperial, post socialist, and post racial issues. Until now, anthropologists have not considered mutuality a significant concept in understanding diversity. The conference will attempt to explore different ethnographic instances of mutuality, especially those of mutual borrowing of practices and beliefs, for example processes of religious and cultural syncretism, creolization or acculturation, related to imperialism, colonialism or modern cultural flow, etc., mutual trust or mutual recognition. |
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http://www.easa2008.eu |
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31.08-07.09.2008
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| Antwerp, Belgium |
Religion, Culture and Society”
Summer School |
It is obvious that religion, culture and society are strongly interwoven and are crucial for understanding the contemporary world. It is the aim of the interdisciplinary UCSIA summer school to learn and reflect on this interconnection.
Our guest lecturers are Robert Hefner (Boston University) on “Religion, Power, Pluralism and Modernity”, John Hutchinson (London School of Economics) on “Nationalism and Religion”, Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) on “Political Multiculturalism” and Christian Welzel ( Jacobs University Bremen) on “Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy”.
Participants should stay for the whole duration of the seminar. Tuition fee, accommodation and meals are provided by the organizer. In principle, the participant only has to bear his or her travel expenses and his or her personal expenses. |
You can find all documents necessary for application on our website (http://www.ucsia.org/summerschool): the programme of the summer school, a call for papers and an application form.
The completed application form and other required application documents must be submitted to the UCSIA Selection Committee not later than Sunday April 20th 2008.
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07-11.09.2008
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| Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
Time of Decline, Time of Hope: Scientific, Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions
8th conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions
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No matter what exactly the expression “crisis of identity” means, it certainly reflects the material insufficiency of theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of religions. The reason for contemporary methodological disintegration is that the study of religions has depended upon its alleged interdisciplinarity for too long and after the proposition of interdisciplinarity failed, it began to rely on the so-called transdisciplinarity. The result is the inherent present-day heterogeneity of the study of religions, which verifiably also reflects particular ideological interests. While it is not possible to eliminate this heterogeneity, and limiting it can only be done through analyzing the antagonism between various differently institutionalized and competing fields of the study of religions, what can be eliminated is the crisis of theoretical and methodological foundations of the discipline. One of the main aims of the EASR conference Time of Decline, Time of Hope: Scientific, Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions is to attain a pragmatic direction for solving these highly controversial, difficult to solve, however inevitable concerns for study of religions. The following points may serve as a guideline and framework for their resolution:
- What are the principles and basic hypotheses for the knowledge attained through the academic study of religions?
- Under what conditions may these initial hypotheses become axioms for the methodology of the study of religions?
- How are the concepts and descriptive language of the discipline created?
- What scientific rules may be considered apodictically valid while creating the learning and knowledge of the study of religions? |
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http://www.phil.muni.cz/relig/easr2008/ |
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08-10.09.2008
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| SOAS - London |
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The Mandaeans |
The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty Sixth International Conference on the theme of The Mandaeans, to held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
The conference aims to study Mandaeism and its relationship to Near Eastern religions and gnostic movements. |
Aram the Oriental Institute,
Oxford University, Pusey Lane,
Oxford OX12LE,
England.
Tel: ++1865-514041.
Fax: ++1865-516824.
Email: aram@aramsociety.org
http://www1.aramsociety.org/index.htm |
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22-27.09.2008
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| Granada, Spain |
Beyond the Frontiers: Life, Art and Literature of the Syriac Speaking and of the Arabic Speaking Christian Communities
Xth Symposium Syriacum
VIIIth Congrès d'Etdues Arabes Chrétiennes |
The idea of the "frontier" has been suggested, first, because Granada has been and still is in many ways a frontier city. Frontier belween Islam and Christianity before the Christian conquesl, frontier between the Castillan and the Morisco communities after the conquest, frontier between the medieval world and modernity in ils beginnings, and frontier between modernily and postmodernity now. ln many ways, the destine of Granada seems to be marked by this human reality of the frontier. But also, in many ways, the Syriac Speaking Christians have been "beyond the frontiers" of Greek Speaking Christianity, even when they lived wilhin the Byzantine Empire, and the Arabie Speaking Christian communities have been and are, "Beyond the frontiers" of the Christian world, living in a Muslim environment.
Now, living "beyond the frontiers" certainly creates certain difficulties, but it also offers new pussibilities of expression, communication and dialogue. A frontier is conceived always initially as a human division, but it can also beeome a place for knowledge, for mutuaI understanding and even for union. |
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http://www.icsco.org/ |
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24-27.09.2008
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| Berlin |
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Contemporary Muslim Consumer Cultures – an Emerging Field of Study |
Consumer culture in the Muslim world, or Muslims as a specific target group who participate actively in a consumer market, are rather new realms for academic researchers. For many Muslims, consumption plays an increasing role in identity formation. Their growing cultural and religious self-awareness transforms markets, advertising strategies and consumer behavior. Muslim consumer culture is closely interrelated to globalization and is, therefore, of relevance to various areas of economic, sociological, anthropological, psychological and religious scholarship. However, so far scholarly research on this subject has been very limited. And though studies very often acknowledge or include the interdisciplinary character of Muslim consumer culture, there is still a need for a comprehensive analysis of its many aspects.
The conference aims at creating a network of international scholars and young researchers with various approaches to the subject, and it also aims at initiating exchange and cooperation between them to develop the basic grounds for this emerging field of study. It will include two invited keynote speakers, two panel discussions led by experts, and a number of workshops during which all participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects. |
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Fhttp://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/cmcc-conference/index.html |
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26-27.09.2008
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| Leiden |
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Understanding Immanent Critique: Cultural Politics and Islamic Activism |
The workshop intends to explore the following questions in a variety of geographical and temporal contexts:
What are the forms of immanent critique employed by Islamic activists, intellectuals, movements, and ordinary subjects in multiple contexts?
How are immanent critiques exercised and for what purposes?
What is the function and effect of immanent critique?
Does it presuppose the notion of an authentic Islam and good life; if so, how do these notions animate the principles and practices of immanent critique?
What are the theoretical and methodological premises which at once facilitate and hamper the possibilities of immanent critique? |
The workshop convener is Irfan Ahmad, Postdoctoral Fellow at ISIM (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World).
E-mail: i.ahmad@isim.nl |
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29.09-01.10.2008
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| Heidelberg |
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Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual |
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The Collaborative Research Centre "Ritual Dynamics" (SFB 619 "Ritualdynamik") was set up in 2002 as an interdisciplinary centre to research the dynamics of ritual. It is the world's largest research centre dedicated solely to investigating these issues, with over 90 scientists and researchers working in seventeen sub-projects. Our focus is on the (re) invention of rituals, transfer and change - which we see as the rule not the exception. Through questions such as: "Who invents rituals and why?" "When and why do rituals die?" "How variable are rituals and how do new media affect old rituals?" new avenues have been opened up, such as research into inter-cultural ritual transfer, ritual agency, and the connections between rituals and new media. It is now time to develop collaborative models to research rituals at an international level. We thus invite scholars worldwide to come, discuss, and expand our results, and to explore new approaches such as ritual economics, ritual design, and scientific rituals. |
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http://www.rituals-2008.com/ |
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01-05.10.2008
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| Gangtok, Sikkim, India |
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Buddhist Himalaya: Studies in Religion, History and Culture |
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The conference is organised by the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, as part of its Golden Jubilee in 2008. This is India’s leading centre for the study of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist culture. The conference will be convened by Dr. Alex McKay from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands, and being together around 60 leading scholars in the field, mostly from India and the Himalayan states, but also a number of distinguished researchers from Europe, Japan and America. Participation will be by invitation only, and there will no call for papers, although observers are welcome to attend under their own auspices. |
Enquiries should be sent to Gangtok2008@gmail.com.
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology: http://www.tibetology.net/
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17-19.10.2008
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BREAKING THE NORMS
Reception, Transformation and Transgression
in Religion, Literature and Culture
14th Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture |
The purpose of the conference is to discuss the role of religion, literature, and culture in disseminating and/or transforming various kinds of normativity.
As honorary speaker David Jasper will give a presentation on ISRLC at the Banquet Dinner.
Questions to be raised and discussed in the 13 panels:
* Has modern literature replaced scripture and become the medium for finding norms for life, answers to ethical questions, material for new ethical thinking and for the construction of identity?
* Can a “rewritten Bible” - understood in terms of reception and transformation - be a new authoritative/normative text? If so, what is it in the text or outside the text that gives it this authority?
* Why are movies and images considered by some groups more dangerous to religion than words, while other groups see them as a fruitful or even necessary way to express religious ideas and feelings?
* Why are some religions more open to artistic renderings/creations of gods or holy persons than other religions? |
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http://www.teo.au.dk/en/research/isrlc-en |
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