AAR-EIR Conference – Sea Change: Religion, Cosmology, Environment
When and Where
Friday, May 03, 2024 8:30 am to Saturday, May 04, 2024 12:40 pm
Speakers
Keynote - Hillary Kaell (McGill University)
Description
In cooperation with the DSR's Graduate Students Association, we are delighted to be hosting this gathering that will consider "Sea Change: Religion, Cosmology, Environment."
Keynote speaker: Hillary Kaell (McGill University). "A Multi-Being Manifesto: Using Tools from Religions Studies to Rethink Ecological Change"
Understanding that we live in a time of climate crisis, the call went out for papers and panels that broadly engage the theme across regions, traditions, histories, theories, and methods. Some of the questions suggested for consideration:
- How do religious modes of understanding the world shape responses to what is possible in the face of natural disasters?
- What are ways that religious traditions have understood the shaping forces of the natural world?
- How has resource extraction been shaped by religious cosmologies?
- What do studies of visual, sensory, or material culture bring to our understanding of religion, cosmology, and environment?