Co-Sponsorship In-person November Annual Meeting 2025

CO-SPONSORSHIP: Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit

Call for Proposals

Religion, Art, and Political Reimagination

The Art, Literature, and Religion Unit and The Religion, Social Conflicts, and Peace Unit are seeking papers for a co-sponsored session on "Religion, Art, and Political Reimagination." We are interested in exploring the role of religion in art and the production, disruption, and reconfiguration of political imagination. We are likewise interested in identifying the relevance of are and religious meaning-making and remaking in processes of social and political protests and visions of alternative political futures. 

We seek papers that focus on the following (not an exhaustive list of topics):

* religion and literatures of resistance, exile, and annihilation

* protest art and slogans 

* art and disruption of weaponized religious symbols 

* art, religion, and the imagination of justice

* art, religion, and political domination 

* art amid genocide

Steering Member Mail Dates
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University amir.hussain@lmu.edu -
Adam Newman anewman4@illinois.edu -
Angela Hummel angelalhummel@gmail.com -
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University,… charriss@indiana.edu -
Cia Sautter, University of St. Thomas cialuna13@gmail.com -
Heather M. DuBois, Stonehill College duboishm@gmail.com -
Janna Hunter-Bowman jhunterbowman@ambs.edu -
Jason Springs jspring1@nd.edu -
Ossama Abdelgawwad ossama.abdelgawwad@valpo… -
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory University sitisarahm@gmail.com -
Wonchul Shin, Villanova University wcshin84@gmail.com -
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College zkassam@pomona.edu -
Review Process: Participant names are anonymous to chairs and steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection