Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Study of Religion Seminar
We welcome proposals that include community members and other stakeholders as co-presenters and co-researchers. We are interested in dialogue about and around research processes with community partners and their perspectives as non-academics and individuals or communities who advocate and engage in direct action, political advocacy, and/or other social intervention that academics may study and/or support.
Other paper and panel proposals which fit with the mission of the seminar and which address the conference theme of Freedom will also be considered.
This seminar creates a multi-disciplinary space to explore the intersections between publicly engaged research, collective knowledge production, and relations of power in the study of religion. As part of broader conversations about the relationships between social change and the public humanities, the seminar is organized around diverse ideas of “the public” and interrogates the forces of racialized and colonial power that shape our fields. Whereas disciplinary training often privileges postures of political neutrality, we orient conversations around what it means to do scholarship that has political stakes, who we do that work with, and how we can strengthen that work. The seminar aims to generate a space for those with broad interests in the theoretical, methodological, and historical foundations of knowledge production in the study of religion and its political and public impacts. The seminar provides a nexus for collective consideration of processes of social change and social justice as they relate to theories of religion. The space will also interest those with practical interests in how to establish and sustain community and/or politically-engaged research and teaching programs within and beyond the academy.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas Johnston | johnstlf@wfu.edu | - | View |
| Rebecca Bartel | rbartel@sdsu.edu | - | View |