The 2013 Research in Religious Studies Conference for undergraduates and MA students (May 4-5) is shaping up. We were getting a bit concerned about low submission numbers up until the deadline (last Friday) when we got a truckload of them. We now have 37 papers accepted and we are extending the CALL FOR PAPERS to April 21. We might end up a few papers shy of last year’s total, but not much.
As usual, there is a great variety of topics. Here is a selection:
Rituals, Feasts and Fasts: The Ritualization of Disordered Eating, Gina Carroll, University of Calgary.
Imagining Ethiopia: a “Fabular” History about Demonic Representations in Antiquity, Ryan C. P. Fics, University of Manitoba.
Contesting Identities, Divine Lands and Talking Trees: Analyzing Yaqui resistance to the Porfiriato through spiritual healers, Brenda Garcia, University of Lethbridge.
The Family Analects: Interpreting Confucianism in Diasporic Chinese-Canadian Writing, Mimi Lin, University of Lethbridge,
S&M and a goddess? Lilian Marshall, University of Manitoba.
Families Across Borders: State Conflict and Mormon Border Crossing in the Late Nineteenth Century, James Forbes, University of Lethbridge.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation Online: Inconsistency, Ideology, and Secular Activism, Stacie Swain, University of Alberta.
Antisemitism in Argentina from the End of the Second World War to the Turn of the Century, Danielle Simmons, University of Lethbridge.
Even though the number of universities represented is a bit lower this year (which I blame on increasing travel costs and no funding for student travel), we are even having one intrepid soul … Continue reading