Religious Studies Graduate Symposium

2009

Come to the Indiana University Religious Studies Graduate Symposium!

MARCH 5, 2009

Keynote Speaker Maria Heim, "Learning to See: Intellectual Virtues and Affections in Buddhaghosa's Thought" Wylie 015, 4:15-5:45 PM

Dinner, Woodburn House, 6-8 PM

MARCH 6, 2009

Panels, Ballantine Hall 204

I.  9:00-10:30 AM

Post-War Identity and Popular Practice

William E. Smith, III, Faithfully Obscene: The Art of Religion as Defense Strategy in Mid-20th Century U.S. Obscenity Debates Federico Pacchioni, Redefining Christianity through Cinema: The Collaboration of Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini David Gottlieb, Acting Jewish: The Inhabited Role of the American Jew and the Expression of Jewish Religious Sensibility

Respondent: Sylvester A. Johnson

II.  10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Popular Practice: Martyrs, Music and Material Diane Fruchtman, Prudentius and the Power of Violence: Harnessing Violent Images for Opposite Ends Adam Darlage, Habaner Ceramics as an Anabaptist Art Form in Early Modern Europe Stephen Mitsuo Higa, Singing and Spirit in Early Medieval Gaul, 6th-9th Century

Respondent: Aaron Stalnaker

III.  1:45-3:15 PM

Ambivalent Space: Complicating the Location of the Sacred Selina Morales, Bathed in Spirit: Recognizing Homeland in the Botanica Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe, Making Sacred Space: The Role of Art and Other Material Culture in Worship Joseph Ballan, Liturgies of the Concert Hall: Mallarme and the Religion of Music

Respondent: Constance M. Furey

IV.  3:30-5:00 PM

Performance and Religious Transformation Aimee Hamilton, Goddess Parvati and Brides' Bodies: The Aesthetics of Hindu Adornment Lauren Osborne, The Recited Qur'an: Possibilities for Research Geoffrey Goble, Practice as Play: Subjective and Objective Aspects of Esoteric Buddhist Ritual

Respondent: Maria Heim