The Call for Papers for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion – Southeast Region is available now! The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2023.
Access the CFP now: 2024 CFP AARSE Deadline EXTENDED – now due October 15!
Proposals can be submitted through the Submission Form.
Please contact conference coordinators Drs. Lenny Lowe and Brennan Keegan with any questions.
Conference Theme: “Tensions”
Towering live oaks draped with Spanish moss line the colorful streets of Charleston, South Carolina, making it a booming tourist destination celebrated for its rich food, art, and architecture. But within this lowcountry mecca sits a dark past and complicated present: Charleston stands as the US hub for the transatlantic slave trade, a history too often erased in carriage and plantation tours. It is place of profound tension and contradiction.
Like Charleston, the places, the traditions, and the peoples that we study – even our discipline itself – are subject to perennially opposing forces. Pulled between the local and the global, romantic visions and untidy realities, resistance and acquiescence, the material and the spiritual, public and private, and the secular and profane, we and our research subjects live in a constant state of tension.
As we invite you to join us in Charleston for the 2024 meeting, we invite you to consider the theme of tension as it relates to your areas of study. What are the sources of tension for us or our research subjects? In what ways is the tension productive? How do we and/or our research subjects navigate these tensions with or despite religion? We encourage multidisciplinary proposals, as well as proposals from underrepresented scholars and graduate students.