Barnard Hall, 4th Floor, Barnard College, Columbia University
Department of Religion
Department of Religion (Barnard); Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures (Barnard); Arts and Sciences Graduate Council; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender; Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies; South Asia Institute; Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Columbia Religion Graduate Student Conference 2023
Shaping the Anthropos: Cosmologies, Mythologies, and Logics of Subjecthood
Friday, April 7
8:30am – 8:00pm
For conference website and registration information, please visit https://columbiareligion.weebly.com
The Human, as a contingent terminology and taxonomic category, has shaped and been shaped in the imbrications of cultural imaginaries deployed under the signs of the cosmos, mythos, and religio-logics. The department of religion’s graduate student conference interrogates and extrapolates the various ways in which Human subjecthood has been interpellated through the self and the Other–in its various forms: political, gendered, animal, unhuman, artificial, etc.
Program Schedule
All events take place in Barnard Hall, 4th Floor
For Zoom participants, please note that all times are in EST
Keynote Session | 9–10AM
Mayanthi L. Fernando (James Room & ZoomA)*
Session 1 [concurrent] panels | 10 AM–12 PM
Animacy and Resistance (James Room & ZoomA)*
Contested Terrains of the Self (Room 409b & ZoomB)*
Seminar Session | 1–2PM
Saurabh Dube (James Room & ZoomA)*
Session 2 [concurrent] panels | 2–4PM
Precarities & Valors of Death (James Room & ZoomA)*
Decolonizing Biopolitical Narratives (Room 409b & ZoomB)*
Session 3 [concurrent] panels | 4–6PM
Dialectics of the Body (James Room & ZoomA)*
Technicity and Posthuman Imaginaries (Room 409b & ZoomB)*
Closing Plenary Session | 6.30–8PM
Tiffany Hale & Yannik Thiem (James Room & ZoomA)*
*Please visit columbiareligion.weebly.com to register for zoom links and more details
This event is open to the Columbia University community. The general public must register in advance and confirm COVID-19 vaccination status in compliance with current Columbia University health requirements using this online form.
The Department of Religion is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact columbiareligion@gmail.com to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
The one-day conference is organized and sponsored by Columbia University Department of Religion and co-sponsored by: Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Arts and Science Graduate Council, Barnard Religion Department, Barnard Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures Department, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, South Asia Institute, Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.
