Co-Sponsorship In-person November Annual Meeting 2025

CO-SPONSORSHIP: Religion and Science Fiction Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit

Call for Proposals

We are looking for papers that pair a Tibetan/Himalayan Buddhist narrative source of any genre with a piece of speculative fiction to explore one of the following thematic binaries: freedom/oppression, imagination/reality, enlightenment/delusion, birth/death, or humanity/other sentience. The focus is on the ways that liberation narratives in both Tibetan/Himalayan Buddhism and speculative fiction may serve as mutually enriching heuristic devices for deepening interpretation and understanding.

Sponsor
Religion and Science Fiction Unit	View
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit	View

Chair	Mail	Dates
Brandon Dotson	brandon.dotson@wolfson…	2021/01/01 - 2026/12/31	View
Jue Liang, Case Western Reserve University	jl4nf@virginia.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
James Thrall, Knox College	jthrall@knox.edu	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Rudy V. Busto, University of California,…	rude@religion.ucsb.edu	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View

Steering Member	Mail	Dates
Alex Matthews	acmatthews@uchicago.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Ben Van Overmeire, Duke Kunshan University	ben.van.overmeire…	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Emanuelle Burton	emanuelle.burton@gmail…	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Harrison Hall, Harvard University	HHALL@g.harvard.edu	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
James Gentry, Stanford University	jdgentry@stanford.edu	2021/01/01 - 2026/12/31	View
Kati Fitzgerald	kati.fitzgerald@gmail.com	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Kunga Sherab, University of Toronto	khenpokunga@gmail.com	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University	lauraammon@gmail.com	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Rae Dachille, University of Arizona	raedachille@email…	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Sarah Summers	Ssummers@utexas.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Sangseraima Ujeed, University of Michigan,…	sujeed@umich.edu	2022/01/01 - 2027/12/31	View

Review Process: Participant names are anonymous to chairs and steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection