THE PROGRAM

DPDF Fellows work with senior faculty to formulate effective dissertation proposals within the context of multidisciplinary research fields. Fellows attend workshops in the spring and fall of the fellowship cycle, which provide a framework for pre-dissertation research and guide dissertation proposal writing. In the summer months between workshops, DPDF fellows carry out exploratory field research on their topics to evaluate issues of feasibility and methods of investigation. The DPDF program covers necessary costs for workshop participation and up to $5,000 for summer research.

ELIGIBILITY

The Fellowship competition is open to second and third year graduate students in all disciplines of the humanities and social science who are enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States. International fields are open to students enrolled in universities within countries of the international co-sponsoring organizations. For more information on eligibility, please visit our website.

PROGRAM CONTACTS

For further information regarding the program and how to apply, please visit our website at www.ssrc.org/programs/dpdf/.

Program staff are available at dpdf to answer additional questions.

Notions of authority, claims to authenticity, and appeals to origins are
intimately related concepts deployed in both the practice and study of religion. The
relationship between these concerns is complex, however, and varies widely within
religious thought, religious practice, and academic discourse on religion. Scholars have
long studied, for example, the ways in which notions of the “original” or “authentic” are
used to authorize religious ideologies, both among ancient and modern practitioners.
With the rise of secularism, increasing attention has also been given to studying the ways
in which authenticity itself serves as an authorizing force, as individuals and groups
attempt to define meaningful existence through appeals to “authentic” sources of
“authority,” be they gods, society, or the individual. And finally, this nexus of concerns
manifests itself in the works of academics themselves: sometimes assertions of “authentic
traditions” and “original meaning” creep into scholarly discourse on the study of religion.

This conference aims to probe the multiform connections between notions of
authenticity, origins, and authority among religious actors as well as within academic
discourse on religion. We invite papers from a wide variety of disciples within the
university that seek to explore the variegated relationships between these concepts,
considered through the lenses of religions studied and the scholars who study them.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• claims to authenticity and authority in the invention of religious practices
• divine origins and other kinds of authenticating claims
• the role of secularization in claims to authenticity
• authenticity in modern moral philosophy (authenticity, “the self” and ethical
formation)
• religious praxis through media (e.g. cyberpilgrimage) and issues of authenticity
• classifications of religious writings as authentic and inauthentic, and concomitant appeals to origins
• differentiations between canonicity and authenticity
• manuscript variations among religious texts and related discussions of
authenticity, origins, and authority
• deployment of gender categories in discourses about authenticity and origins
• authenticity and ideologies of power
• analyses of the ubiquity of strategies involving claims to the authentic and
original
• apocalyptic and future-oriented authenticating claims among religious groups
• issues of authentication and religious actors’ attempts to construct religious space

Please submit a 250 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by November 30, 2011 to
Brown.Religion.Conference.2012[at]gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the
paper, the presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology
requests. Responses will be sent out by December 20, 2011.

The next two volumes of the journal will explore the themes ‘Religion, Gender and Multiculturalism’ (Winter 2011) and ‘Masculinities and Religion: Continuities and Change’ (Spring 2012).

Religion and Gender is a refereed, online, open access journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensions and as a fundamental principle of social ordering. It seeks to investigate gender at the intersection of feminist, sexuality, queer, masculinity and diversity studies.

Religion and Gender is edited by a small team of managing editors, supported by an international editorial board and an advisory board consisting of renowned scholars in the broad field of the study of religion and gender. As an academic journal, Religion and Gender aims to publish high level contributions from the Humanities and from qualitative and conceptual studies in the Social Sciences. It wants to focus in particular on contemporary debates and topics of emerging interest. The editors invite you to submit articles, book reviews, literature surveys of discussion papers, or to propose special issues.

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Congratulations, Dr. Sprinkle!

“Gray Is Good: 6 LGBT Seniors You Should Know”

Dr. Stephen V. Sprinkle
Dallas, TX

A faculty member at Fort Worth’s Brite Divinity School, Sprinkle, 60, has been making a difference within the typically impermeable walls of organized religion. An ordained Baptist minister, Sprinkle attended Yale Divinity School and is Brite’s first openly gay  scholar. He’s authored two books for Chalice Press, Disciples & Theology and Ordination, as well as reams of articles addressing theology, the Church and queer studies. Sprinkle has also pastored or co-pastored five congregations in Connecticut, Texas and North Carolina (where he was born and raised).

Shocked awake by a “near brush” with anti-gay violence, Sprinkle was inspired to create his website, Unfinished Lives, which he describes as “a place of public discourse which remembers and honors LGBTQ hate-crime victims, while also revealing the reality of unseen violence perpetrated against people whose only ‘offense’ is their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender presentation.”

Asked by the HRC to comment on the passage of 2009’s Matthew Shepard Act, Sprinkle wrote: “The end of the beginning of full equality for my people has come. And we who believe in the fullness of justice will not rest until it comes continue to preach, to pray, and to advocate until all of us our free to love without the threat of violence.”

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Global innovators exchange ideas at the TED Conference.

YOU can learn to change the world too at an Interfaith Leadership Institute (ILI).

ILIs are four-day intensive workshops that equip students and their campus allies to bemovement builders for interfaith action. Join hundreds of organizers who are changing campuses through the Better Together campaign.

Rally your campus team, and apply now to join us for the next ILI at Emory University in Atlanta, GA – January 12-15, 2012.

Applications due November 28.

(Apply by October 31 and save $50!)

Join us for powerful training, relationship building, and inspiration. Become an interfaith leader who can:

• Mobilize large numbers of students to voice their values, engage with others, and act together;
• Change campus by raising the volume on interfaith cooperation as a priority; and
• Grow as a leader, building skills for campus and beyond.

Make your campus better together: Apply today!

Questions? We’ve got answers.

Or, send us an email at leadershipinstitute[at]ifyc[dot]org.

June 15-­16, 2012 Ryerson University Toronto, Canada

We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on the topic of Continental Thought and Religion. The general theme of the conference is meant to reflect the variety of articulations of religion that have emerged in contemporary European thought. While the focus of the conference is continental thought, we nonetheless conceive the latter in an interdisciplinary manner (including literary theory, social and political thought, psychoanalysis, and religious studies). We also encourage submissions from people interested in exploring possible connections with analytic philosophy.

ConfirmedSpeakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.), Bettina Bergo (U. de Montréal), more to be announced in the near

future.

In addition to our keynote speaker, John Caputo, we will have four commissioned workshops comprised of two papers and a response, and a series of themed panels. We invite submissions of three-­?page proposals for essays for the following themed panels with included possible topics:

Phenomenologyof Religion

• The thought of Chrétien, Henry, Lacoste, Levinas, Marion, and Ricoeur

• Topics: the gift; the work of art; appearance and transcendence; call and response

ReligionandPolitics

• The thought of Agamben, Asad, Connolly, Derrida, de Vries, Girard, Habermas, Schmitt, and Taylor

• Topics: political theology; the post-­?secular; sovereignty; religion and violence; pluralism

Religionand SpeculativeRealism

• The thought of Brassier, Harman, Laruelle, and Meillassoux

• Topics: materialism; correlationism; nihilism; the things themselves; divine inexistence; ‘future Christ’

BeyondTheismandAtheism

• The thought of Caputo, Kearney, Kristeva, Milbank, Vattimo

• Topics: kenosis; anatheism; weak theology; a/theology; radical orthodoxy

Continental Thought, Religion, andAesthetics

• The artwork of Bresson, Caravaggio, Celan, Chagall, Dostoyevsky, Dumont, Artemisia Gentileschi, Kahlo, Kapoor, Kiarostami, Kiefer, Malick, Newman, O’Keefe, and Stevens

• The thought of Cavell, Cixous, Critchley, Irigaray, Marion, Nancy, and Rancière

• Topics: transcendence in art; image and icon; creativity and creation; representation and idolatry

ImmanentismandReligion

• Agamben, Badiou, Bergson, Deleuze, James, Foucault, Keller, and Žižek

• Topics: self-­?organization; the event; plurality; bio-­?power; polydoxy

Historyof Continental Thought andReligion

• Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger

• Topics: death of God; reason and faith; scripture and philosophy; religion and fantasy; onto-­?theology

Please send only one three-­?page (double-­?spaced) proposal on one of the above themes and any questions to

varieties2012 by December 31, 2011. We intend to notify authors about our decisions by February 28, 2012. Other conference details (registration fee, preliminary program, etc.) will be announced in new year.

The VCTR Conference is organized by John Caruana (Philosophy, Ryerson University) and Mark Cauchi (Humanities, York University).

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships -

Date Submitted: 2011-10-17
Announcement ID: 188957

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships -

The applications for the 2012-2013 David L. Boren Scholarships and
Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards
provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and
graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe,
Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add
important international and language components to their educations.

Boren Scholars and Fellows represent a variety of academic
backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught
languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages
Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further
their study of Akan/Twi, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu.
For a complete list of languages, visit our website.

Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic years
study abroad and graduate students up to $30,000 for language study
and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit
to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.

National Application Deadlines
Boren Fellowship: January 31, 2012
Boren Scholarship: February 9, 2012*
*Many institutions have an earlier on-campus deadline. Visit our
website for information about your campus deadline and Boren campus
representative.

For more information about the Boren Awards, to register for one of
our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line application, please
visit www.borenawards.org. You can also contact the Boren Awards staff
at boren or 1-800-618-NSEP with questions.

The Language Flagship -

The Language Flagship is a breakthrough in foreign language and
culture instruction in the United States designed to help individuals
achieve superior-level proficiency in critical languages including
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Persian. Flagship students participate in
advanced language programs offered at the undergraduate and graduate
levels.

The Language Flagship Fellowship is an award for up to two-years for
graduate students to support their intensive language study at
Flagship institutions in the U.S. and overseas. Flagship Fellowships
are available for the study of Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Persian at
designated Flagship Programs. Eligible applicants for Flagship
Fellowships must be U.S. citizens with advanced proficiency in the
Flagship language of study. Past recipients of Boren Scholarships or
Fellowships are eligible to apply for the Flagship Fellowship. In
addition, students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate
Flagship programs may apply for Boren funding to participate in
overseas Flagship programs.

Flagship Fellowship Application Deadline: January 12, 2012.

Application information can be found online at
flagship.

The Boren Awards and The Language Flagship are initiatives of the
National Security Education Program (NSEP) and are administered by the
Institute of International Education.

Boren Awards
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 800-618-6737
Email: boren
Visit the website at http://www.borenawards.org

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Post-Doctoral Fellowships

The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Emory University

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University is accepting applications for three Post-Doctoral fellowships for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. The FCHI Fellows Program offers research opportunities to those trained in the humanities as traditionally defined and to others seriously interested in humanistic issues; research projects must be humanistic, but fellows may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline. We especially seek applicants and projects that will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the group of Fellows and the work of the FCHI.

Post-Doctoral Fellows, who must have the Ph.D. in hand before the submission of their applications, are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than six years before receiving the fellowship.

Besides being an active member of the Centers intellectual agenda through the academic year, Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar on a subject of their choice during the spring of the fellowship year. Stipends of $40,000 will be offered to Post-Doctoral Fellows, along with a research budget of $2,000, shared office space in the Center, and library access. The deadline for submission of completed applications is February 15, 2012; awards will be announced in early-April 2012. Application forms and further information are available from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at fchi, on the web at www.chi.emory.edu, or write to: FCHI, Emory University, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322.

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I hope you will join us this Thursday, October 20th at 11:00 a.m. in Weatherly Hall for the first of four panel discussions about religious practices in multi-faith settings. Our hope is that through learning about practices in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian contexts that each of us will be able to gain a deeper understanding of our own tradition, and a greater sense of hospitality in multi-faith contexts.

Three guest panelists, Imam Moujahed Bakhach, Rev. Melinda Veatch, and Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, will present on ‘Blessing Children and Rites of Initiation’ from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish perspectives. There will be time for questions and discussion after the panelists present.

We will be serving a light lunch from Panera, so please RSVP via the Brite homepage link (http://www.brite.edu/register.asp).

I look forward to seeing you this Thursday as we expand our knowledge and build new relationships.

Peace-
Amanda Henderson

Blessing Children & Rites of Initiation
Religious Practice in a Multi-faith World
Weatherly Hall<http://www.brite.edu/location.asp?location=1%20>
Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:00 am
Join us for a series of interfaith panel presentations as we learn about religious practices that are common to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faith communities. Through engaging and reflecting upon religious practices in these three traditions, participants will gain a deeper understanding of their own practice, and a greater readiness to practice hospitality in interfaith contexts.

Imam Moujahed Bakhach, Masjid Al Ibrahimi Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, Rabbi of Beth El Congregation The Rev. Melinda Veatch, Director of Tarrant Area Community of Churches

Presented by:  Stalcup School of Theology for the Laity, Brite Divinity School
St. Andrew Catholic Church, 3717 Stadium Drive, Fort Worth, TX

The Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) is central for both Disciples and Roman Catholics, and every phase of the Disciples of Christ-Roman Catholic International Commission for Dialogue has regularly noted this centrality.   Through four phases of dialogue beginning in 1977 the historic differences between the two communions have been identified along with many unexpected agreements and a convergence in understandings.  This seminar explores the history of the dialogue, the theological understandings of the eucharist in each tradition, and the ongoing discussions surrounding the practice, role and meaning of this sacrament at the heart of our faith.  Come and you may learn just how close our understandings truly are.

Catherine Clifford is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University, Ottawa and founding Director of the Research Centre on “Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism”.  She is a Roman Catholic member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue of Canada.

David Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Modern Church History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College.  His ecumenical experience ranges from the local and regional to the national and international.

Students can attend free of charge but need to reserve a space by contacting Sandy Brandon or Eilene Theilig at e.theilig@tcu.edu.

The attached poster tells about a wonderful event we will have at Brite this Friday. John Kinyon will be here on Friday to teach us the skills of non-violent communication across our differences. Please invite anyone you would like to join us for this special training. All you need to do is e-mail Ms. Reina Rodriguez (m.rodriguez2@tcu.edu) to reserve a lunch. There is no charge for this event! The skills you will learn are priceless in my estimation!

Hope to see you on Friday.

Toni Craven

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Call for Papers:
JEWISH SPACES, JEWISH PLACES
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Jewish Studies
Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
February 9, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Michael Meng, Clemson University

The Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University is proud to announce the second annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference in Jewish Studies, to be held on February 9, 2012.

We invite papers that address the theme of “Jewish Spaces, Jewish Places” from graduate students working on research projects in Jewish Studies in any field or discipline. The conference aims to explore the plurality and diversity of Jewish spaces and places, past and present, and we are particularly interested in papers that focus on the socio-cultural processes of how Jews construct space and/or mark place. Possible themes include:

-processes of making place and performing space
-space, place and identity
-gendered spaces
-diasporic spaces and spaces of migration
-negotiating Jewish and non-Jewish spaces
-spaces of remembrance and commemoration
-Holocaust sites in history and memory
-public spaces and private spaces
-secular spaces and religious spaces
-spaces of community

Dr. Michael Meng, Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University and author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard University Press, forthcoming, Fall 2011), will present a keynote lecture. Professor Meng’s visit is co-sponsored by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

This year’s conference will also coincide with a travelling exhibit “Names Instead of Numbers,” which will be hosted by the History Department with the support of the Zelikovitz Centre at Carleton during the month of February. The exhibit highlights the biographies of twenty-two prisoners of the former Dachau concentration camp, drawn from the Dachau Remembrance Book project. The Remembrance Book project is a collaboration of several non-profit organizations to document the biographies of former camp inmates. Students, adults and relatives of former prisoners participated in the project of reconstructing and commemorating prisoners’ life stories.

Papers should be 15-20 minutes long. Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief biography to: zelikovitz.centre. Please also indicate in your proposal if you will be requiring any audio-visual needs for your presentation.

Proposals are due November 10, 2011.

Institut Francais & Cine Lumiere, London, UK May 25th-26th 2012 (dates to be confirmed)

“There is a power inherent in the false: the positive power of ruse, the power to gain a strategic advantage by masking one’s life force.”

(Brian Massumi, REALER THAN REAL, The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari)

This two-day symposium addresses the complex ethics of the manipulation of real people and events in documentary, fact-fiction hybrid cinema and artists’ moving image. Through close readings and screenings of contemporary and historical films that deliberately falsify actuality, the Powers of the False symposium will ask, can there be an ethic of falsification in the encounter between filmmaker and subject? How can we document something whose truth has many sides or may be inscrutable? Is the act of documenting always inevitably performative? The symposium will also examine instances where the subjects of films have deliberately deceived filmmakers. Inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s theories of minor cinema and his term ‘powers of the false’, the symposium will turn to other philosophers too, to approach its central conceptual and ethical questions, including Levinas’ philosophy of alterity.

Academic research methods regard most filmmaking practices as unethical, particularly documentary filmmaking because of its direct encounter with actuality. The principles of consent for sociological research are anathema to factual film production, because total editorial control can never be given to the subjects. Instead, prior-consent is necessary. Moving image artists tend to disregard contributor consent forms and often freely intervene in the lives of their subjects. The activity of filmmaking is clearly predisposed to manipulation, and film productions inexorably produce alteration and change. Powers of the False looks at filmmaking as a site for performing difference and as a manipulative and coercive agency. When and for what reason is forgery, manipulation and deception conceptually motivated, even ethically necessary? How are we as human subjects changed by filming and by being filmed?

Topics may include:

* Inventing the past and fictionalising the present in the factual film; ethno-fiction.

* Staged events and re-enactments.

* Instances where filmmakers have deliberately delayed, intervened in, or given testimony in legal proceedings, or have broken the law.

* Films that have to come to light as true/false over time; film hoaxes.

* Films where authorship has been shared with, or passed over to, a subject.

* Films where the subject has manipulated the filmmaker.

* Films that have significantly altered personal or historical events, whether positively or negatively.

* Directionless films guided by an encounter with a subject.

* The docudrama, the drama-documentary, the mock-documentary and the cinematic essay.

* Iterations o…

I’d be grateful if you would pass this along to any interested parties.

all the best,
Philip Lorish

On Wednesday October 19^th from 11:50-12:50 we are hosting a brown bag lunch with first-masters students in Weatherly Hall. 

The purpose of this very informal event is to provide interested students with the opportunity to meet and discuss with advanced students about further theological education.  At the event, students will sit at a table according to their field of interest (e.g. Hebrew Bible).  They will then be able to ask current Ph.D. students (from SMU, Rice, and Brite) about their experiences in the Ph.D. process. 

Even if it is only your first semester about Brite, it is never too early to begin thinking about a Ph.D.  For those who are further along in the process, we also hope to give some practical guidance in submitting a competitive and successful application.  In fact, one of our contributors has been on a Ph.D. admissions committee.

So please join us!

Your APSA Officers

Call for Papers for THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE IX

A multidisciplinary conference, The Art of Gender in Everyday Life IX, will take place at Idaho State University on Wednesday, March 7 through Friday, March 9, 2012.

Gender is not a given. Its meaning and significance are constantly in flux.

This conference will explore the various ways in which gender is crafted, celebrated, endured, deciphered, expressed or, in short, the art of how it is lived on a daily basis.

The conference will include, in addition to other gender-related events and workshops: a keynote address on Friday evening by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA; a Friday lunchtime talk by an ISU faculty member; and a screening of LUNAFEST.

A formal call for papers, an announcement of our student paper competition, and a registration form can be found on our website at http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter. Abstracts must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Call for Artists for MAMA SAID: The Artworks and Artifacts of Wise Women

Whether your mama, like the Shirelles’ moms, warned you that there’d be days like this, or whether she, like LL Cool J’s mom, advised you to knock out your competition, we’re sure that she had some wise words for you. During Women’s History Month 2012, we invite you to help us celebrate the wisdom that your mama (or other woman you admire) shared with you. Tell us her story and send us a visual representation (artwork – hers or yours; an object, piece of clothing or other possession of hers; etc.) that we can display.

The Women’s History Month (WHM) Committee at Idaho State University (ISU) is calling for submissions for MAMA SAID: The Artworks and Artifacts of Wise Women to be on exhibit at the Transition Gallery on the ISU campus, February 27 – March 10, 2012, in recognition of National Women’s History Month.

A formal call for artists can be found on our website at http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 9, 2012

For further information, please contact the Anderson Center via phone (208-282-2805) or email gndrctr.

Peace,

Adam DJ Brett
http://adamdj.tel

Greetings! As reading week approaches, we hope your semester is going well. May the week ahead be productive and also restorative.

On October 25, Admissions is hosting a fall Open House. This will be a full day of informational and teaching sessions (9:00-10:45), chapel worship with Dr. Pape preaching (11:00), a faculty panel and community conversation featuring Dr. Marshall, Dr. Lozada, and Dr. Kang, and a chance for prospective students to sit in on a class, tour campus, and have admissions interviews.

If you know anyone who is considering graduate theological education or who is interested in learning more about Brite, please extend the invitation and help us pass the word. Information and a link to register are posted on Brite’s website (homepage and admissions page).

Please be sure to join us for worship on October 25^th and the community conversation immediately following worship in Weatherly Hall.

Thanks and Godspeed with all you do,

Valerie Forstman, Ph.D.

Director of Admissions,

Brite Divinity School

TCU Box 298130

Fort Worth, TX 76129

(817) 257-7513 phone

(817) 257-7305 fax

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EPTC Incubator Workshop—Philosophy and/as Biopolitics

The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for the Second ETPC Incubator. This event will be a collaborative workshop with presentations of work-in-progress as well as paper presentations on this year’s theme: Philosophy and/as Biopolitics.

Some of the most important thinkers from the past century and many of the most innovative philosophers working today have been focused on the rather diffuse question of biopolitics. While the very meaning of this term may remain open to interpretation, it is nevertheless becoming one of the most important philosophical horizons moving into the twenty-first century. What is biopolitics? Looking back on the past century, why is it possible to count so many philosophers as biopolitical thinkers? Which issues and problems can biopolitics address? And what does the turn to biopolitics mean for philosophy as it advances into the next millennium?

Discussion may involve theoretical questions or applied work. Possible figures for consideration include Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, Derrida, Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, Haraway, Nancy, Butler, Schmitt, Rancière, Habermas, Zizek, Grosz, and Nikolas Rose.

This workshop lets presenters bring problems, questions, and concerns about work-in-progress for discussion in a roundtable setting. It is appropriate to bring a project in its nascent stages, specific passages of a work that are causing difficulties or trouble for the author, or work that is at a crossroad and requires more reflection before it can advance. Suitable projects may include journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, lectures, or perhaps doctoral thesis work. Our aim is to incubate and nurture these projects so participants can take them to the next level. The WIP sessions will be bookended by two formal paper presentations to situate and inspire the conversation.

The workshop will be conducted during EPTC’s annual meeting at Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which will be held May 29 –June 1, 2012 in Waterloo, ON.

We seek two types of work:

i) Work in Progress

- 500-750 word proposal outlining the project you would present at the workshop

- 10-15 minute presentation will be followed by 30-minute roundtable discussion

ii) Conference papers

- 4500 word maximum, plus 150-word abstract

- 30 minute paper will be followed by a brief commentary and 20-minute discussion period

** Please prepare submissions for anonymous review in Word format. On a separate sheet include the title of project, author name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.

Note that the workshop will be open so that all conference delegates can take part. Short précis (approx. 500 words) prepared by participants will be made available on the EPTC/TCEP web site prior to the event. It is preferred that participants discuss their projects extemporaneously so conversation remains colloquial and collegial.

Deadline: January 15, 2012

Submissions and/or questions should be sent to Bronwyn Singleton (bronwynsingleton)

Symposia is an online, peer-reviewed journal for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who identity religion as an important consideration in their research. Past issues of the journal can be viewed at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/issue/current.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The editorial team extends a cordial call for original, unpublished papers investigating the link between religion and time. Ours has been described as a society suffering from space-time compression, a state in which ‘time passes us by’ and we are forever ‘running out of time’ as global capitalism speeds up the pace of life. Closely related to this, some might argue, time plays a key role in many of our anxieties – in the ‘panicked nature’ of reactions to perceived emergencies, in which action is constantly required now, lest delay bring disaster, or in the nervous approach of December 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. As a cultural element, religion is not immune to these influences, as we observe with the eschatological guessing-game of some Christian groups. But how are religion and time related in a given context, and how can we extend our analysis beyond the modern day?

We welcome articles that address the relation between religion and time in the contexts of geography, psychology, history, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, political science, cultural studies and sociology, as well as those which extend the subject across historical and geographical boundaries.

TOPICS

The following sub-fields have been designed to allow for a flexible interpretation of this volume’s theme, as well as to encourage submissions reflecting a broad spectrum of interests and disciplines. The editorial team gladly welcomes applications which fall outside of these parameters:

• Religious seasons, calendars, liturgical time and holy days
• Ritual and time
• Time in literature, scripture, narrative and oral histories
• Foundational, mythic and eschatological discourses
• The ‘end times’
• Eternity and afterlife; time cycles
• Philosophies of time and temporalities
• Telescoping and collapsing time
• Prophetic time and constructions of the future

Articles written in clear, grammatical, and fluent English or French will be considered. Articles should not exceed 25 pages in length. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 28 October, 2011.

Articles should be submitted by email to Rebekka King (rebekka.king@utoronto.ca).

This Thursday is the United Methodist Fellowship. You won’t want to miss it!

All United Methodists and persons interested in the United Methodist Church at Brite Divinity School are invited to gather together for worship, food, and fellowship. This is your chance to meet other United Methodist students, visit with area clergy, ask questions, share advice, and explore United Methodism in the DFW area.

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