AAR/WR Annual Meeting 2011
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
March 26-28, 2011
Conference Theme:
Current Religious Thinking
Section Calls for Papers.
Previous annual meeting themes have taught us what
happens when we see our field through spacial and geographic
metaphors. This year we invite members to conceive of
religion and its study as complex and ongoing flows. Our
substantive areas are not cut-and-dried; look closely and
they dissolve into each other. And our methodologies,
likewise, are not merely contiguous, but constantly
interfuse, blend, and add their own cross-currents to
others without end. Like Heraclitus's ever-new river,
religion is the living water of life. This year we encourage
proposals that celebrate and critique religion's myriad
and ever-changing currents, that trace them to their
sources, that plumb their mixed and maybe muddied depths.
We hope to receive proposals that address questions like
How do religions flow from region to region?,
or
How have theology or ritual deepened when new
tributaries flow into traditions?, or
that dive into the waves caused when scholarly disciplines
clash and trouble the waters of academe.
Similarly, we hope this call opens you to new confluences
in your own work. We encourage the outflowing of new studies,
where your disciplinary thought streams into new channels or
where you invite new disciplinary streams into your ancient
streambeds. And, simultaneously, we encourage the inflowing
of collaboration, where two or more scholarly streams combine
- panels, book celebrations, symposia, etc. - nourish the
same ground in concourse.
The AAR Western Region meets with the Society of Biblical
Literature, Pacific Coast Region, and the American Schools
of Oriental Research, Pacific Coast Region. These three
organizations make up the Western Commission for the Study of
Religion (WECSOR). For details visit the
WECSOR website
Proposals for the AAR/WR 2011 meeting are due by September
30, 2010. Our meeting is open to any AAR member from any
region or country. In addition to our conference, the AAR/WR
Western Region sponsors several competitve awards with prizes
for papers from graduate students and independent scholars. We
encourage you to submit a paper and to plan to attend the
conference. Please mark March 26-28, 2011 in your calendars.
Click on the links below for the:
Section Calls for Papers.
Program Participation From.
and the:
Guidelines for Presenters.
