Events

2020 Annual Meeting

Your AAR staff continues to work toward holding the Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 21-24, 2020. We are aware of the uncertainty and contradictory projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic and with health and safety as a priority, we will continue monitoring the guidance of governments and health experts as we plan and make decisions. Should any changes need to be made related to the 2020 Annual Meeting, we will promptly notify you.

2020 Regional Meetings

Open Registration:

All remaining regional meetings for 2020 have been canceled

Other Events: Call for Papers

2019 AAR Annual Meeting • San Diego, California • November 23-26, 2019

The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, a community of inquiry devoted to the development of the arts in religion and society, seeks papers by scholars and artists (visual, film, dance, literature, poetry and prose) that will investigate, illuminate, and/or interrogate whether and how religious or theologically inspired artistic expression contributes to movements of resistance and the work of decolonization. Themes for exploration could include but are not limited to race, gender, religious and cultural imperialism, and anthropomorphism.

Questions to consider:

  1. Are artists using religious themes or symbols to participate in movements of resistance and decolonization today and to what texts and imagery are they most drawn? 
  2. How is critical theory, whether in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, or their intersections, informing visual expression as artists approach their work?
  3. What aesthetic and theological theories, hermeneutics, or frameworks inform reception of visual exegesis regarding decolonization, religion, and the arts?
  4. How do visual images function as acts of resistance or "interruption" during times of social protest? How do they perform as "dangerous memories"?

 

Deadline for submissions is 1 March 2019. Please use the online submission form available at https://www.societyarts.org/2019-cfp.html.

 

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To post your own Other Events Call for Papers, please make an Other Events Request.