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Website: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference

The Fourth Annual "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School": October 22 - 24, 2014 at 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School.

This year's conference features four special topic modules:

Food Practices across Religious Traditions

Magic/Science/Religion

The Promise and Peril of Textual Religion

Religion and Crisis

Inaugurated in 2012, this multi-day event is made up of dozens of thematic panels that cross religious traditions, academic disciplines, and intellectual and theological commitments. In addition, the conference features special panels on professionalization, addressing both academic and non-academic careers, and a keynote address. The conference aims at promoting lively interdisciplinary discussion of prevailing assumptions (both within and outside the academy) about the differentiation, organization, authorization, and reproduction of various modes of knowing and "doing" religion.

Last year, 136 students and early career scholars representing 68 graduate programs from across the United States and around the world gathered to present their research. Professor Mark Cladis of Brown University delivered the keynote address, titled “Romanticism, Modernity, and the Study of Religion: Politics, Ecology, and Spirituality at the Crossroads.” The conference also hosted a faculty panel on "The Future of the Study of Religion," a roundtable on "Public Writing and the Academy," and two faculty panels on professional development, focusing on the academic job market and university teaching.

We are current accepting proposals for the October 2015 conference. The submission deadline is July 17, 2015.

Website: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference

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