{"id":990,"date":"2012-09-12T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=990"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:47:50","slug":"department-of-religious-studies-northwestern-university-graduate-student-conference-oct-12-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Graduate Student Conference, Oct. 12-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University<br \/>\nReligion and the Trans-&#8230;<br \/>\nGraduate Student Conference<br \/>\nOctober 12-14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Northwestern University\u00a0Department of Religious Studies is pleased to invite you to a graduate student conference on \u201cReligion and the Trans-\u2026\u201d in Evanston, IL on October 12\u201314, 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOur conference will focus on the emergent understanding of boundaries in the interdisciplinary study of religion \u2013 whether they are political, cultural, or intellectual \u2013 as permeable and transformative.\u00a0 Keynote speakers, panelists, and attendees will engage in conversations about the crossing of geographic and conceptual borders, and on \u201cthe trans\u201d as a productive space for the study of lived religions.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote addresses from three exemplary theorists of religion and the trans will frame our conversation over the course of the weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Tweed (Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Csordas (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Political Science, Northwestern University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twenty-three graduate student presenters will join our keynote speakers, representing a variety of disciplines and speaking on topics as wide-ranging as globalizing Catholicism, translating Islamic cosmology in China, transmitting religious values in Hindu summer camps, and the transnational intertwining of Persian mysticism and Black activism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Conference website and to register:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=49784116&amp;msgid=1536530&amp;act=63DY&amp;c=330837&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.weinberg.northwestern.edu%2Freligionandthetrans\">http:\/\/sites.weinberg.northwestern.edu\/religionandthetrans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this graduate student conference at Northwestern University, October 12\u201314, for an exploration of the study of religion and the transnational, transcultural, transformative, and transcendent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-sponsored by the American Academy of Religion<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University Religion and the Trans-&#8230; Graduate Student Conference October 12-14, 2012 The Northwestern University\u00a0Department of Religious Studies is pleased to invite you to a graduate student conference on \u201cReligion and the Trans-\u2026\u201d in Evanston, IL on October 12\u201314, 2012. \u00a0 Our conference will focus on the emergent understanding of boundaries <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=990\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}