You are invited to attend a one-day conference on the topic of the global dimensions of religious othering. This conference is a project of the Orfalea Center Global Religion Hub.
LOCATION: UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312
[See the bottom of this post for more time and location information.]
Schedule
10:00 a.m. – Welcome and Introduction
10:15 a.m. – First Panel
Topic: The Big Picture
Moderator: Ann Taves, Religious Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “The Big Lie: Its Model, Making, and Motive”
– James Aho, Dept of Sociology, Idaho State University
Presentation: “Imagining the Other”
– Giles Gunn, Dept of Global Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “Why Shari’a Matters in This Age of Islamophobia”
– Kathleen Moore, Dept of Religious Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “Who Invented Othering? The Alternatives of swaraj, jiefang, and Ubuntu”
– Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
Response and discussion
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Second Panel
Topic: Case studies
Moderator: Terence Keel, Black Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “To Russia with Love: Religion, Global Capitalism, and Gay Solidarity”
– Melissa Wilcox, Dept of Religious Studies, UC Riverside
Presentation: “Othering in ISIS”
– Mark Juergensmeyer, Global Studies and Sociology, UCSB
Presentation: “How Europeans Stripped Coffee of Its Muslim and Arab Associations”
– Jamel Velji, Dept of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Response and discussion
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Third Panel
Topic: Case studies
Moderator: Amit Ahuja, Political Science, UCSB
Presentation: “Religion and First Encounters”
– Rudy Busto, Dept of Religious Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “’My Saints Protected Me’: De-Othering Transgender Women’s Sacred Worlds”
– Elizabeth Perez, Dept of Religious Studies, UCSB
Presentation: “India in the American Evangelical Imaginary: Protestant Mission and Popular Geography, 1812-1915”
– Mary Hancock, Dept of Anthropology and History, UCSB
Response and discussion
