Saturday, May 21, 2016 - 12:45pm to Monday, May 23, 2016 - 12:45pm
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Keynote Speakers:
- Neera Chandhoke, Visiting Professor, Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Former Professor, Political Science Delhi University, India,
- Srimati Basu Professor, Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies University of Kentucky, U.S.A.,
- Jasbir Puar Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Panel Topics:
- What's Religion Got to Do With it? Gender, Sexuality and Techniques of Sacralizing/ Secularizing Difference
- Humanism in a Post-Human World? On Making Lives Matter in Transnational and Postcolonial Contexts
- Always the Exception? Islam, Gender and the Politics of Secularism
- Democratic Desires in a Secular Age: Global Politics, Nationalism, and the Promise/ Peril of Religion
- Spirituality and Materiality: Putting Bodies, Minds, and Spirits Together
- Righteous Text: Religion, Performance & Visual Culture
- Advancing a Feminist Agenda Across the Religious/Secular Divide: Reports on Activism and Theory
