Call For Papers
Note: The Call For Papers has now been closed.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Department of Religious Studies’ Graduate Student Association at Northwestern University invites submissions for a graduate student conference centered on the theme “Desire and Intimacy in the Study of Religion,” to be held in Evanston, Illinois on October 25-27, 2024. We request submission materials by May 6, 2024.
Paper topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
- Philosophical intimacies in Tibetan Buddhist tantras
- Queer and trans Muslim desires in Indonesia
- Political and religious freedoms in Palestine
- State/religious violence and attacks on reproductive justice
- Desire and its foreclosures for Rohingya in Myanmar
- Black feminist thought, meditation, and the bodily intimacy of healing
- Desire and the body in Tibetan women’s poetry
- Auto-ethnographic accounts of desire and intimacy in religion
- Desires and intimacies of ghosts and spirits in the study of religion
- Racial justice, Black religion, and desires for embodied freedom
- Land, sovereignty, and desire in Indigenous religions
- Objects, materiality, and the intimacy of religious paraphernalia
- Intimacies and desires of objects implicated in and orienting religious worlds (new materialisms and ontologies)
- The violent desires of nation-states in the study of religion
- #MeToo and desires for justice in religious communities
- Film, art, and sound in forging and documenting intimate religious experiences
Submission Process:
Presentations should not exceed fifteen minutes in length and may approach the topic from any discipline or methodology. Presentations in non-traditional formats are welcome, including but not limited to: documentaries, performances, poetry readings with commentary, and other creative forms.
Please send a 300-word abstract, along with your name, institution, and year of study to NUGradStudentConference@gmail.com by May 1, 2024. Decisions will be communicated by the beginning of June.