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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gitlitz, Abby [mailto:agitlitz@indiana.edu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:43 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Religious Studies graduate student conference: Presence & Absence
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Graduate Religious Studies Association at Indiana University invites abstracts for its annual
<span style="color:black"><a href="http://indiana.edu/~relstud/graduate/graduate-student-conference">graduate student conference, <b><i>Presence and Absence</i></b></a></span><b><i>, </i></b>to be held <b>April 7 - 8 </b>at Indiana University Bloomington. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below you will find our Call for Papers. Please distribute to any and all graduate students. We look forward to submissions! All questions can be directed to <a href="mailto:iugradconf@gmail.com">iugradconf@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hannah Garvey and Colton Ames<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GRSA Conference Chairs 2017 <span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://indiana.edu/~relstud/graduate/graduate-student-conference"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="800" height="308" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D23F35.67972160"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">The Graduate Religious Studies Association at Indiana University</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Announces its Annual Graduate Student Conference:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Presence and Absence
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">April 7 – 8, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Indiana University Bloomington</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Keynote Address: TBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">How do humans conceive and perceive of presence? Absence?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">The Graduate Religious Studies Association at Indiana University invites abstracts for its interdisciplinary spring conference investigating
the meaning of presence and absence in the human experience. We welcome submissions from all disciplines and fields, encouraging biological, psychological, linguistic, philosophical, historical, political, and literary responses to and understandings of presence
and absence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Abstracts will be due December 31, 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">We embark on this conference in light of recent scholarship addressing presence in the study of religion. How do we as scholars respond
to these questions of experience across disciplines? We seek to facilitate conversations about the role that the transcendent has both as present and as absent in the human experience across all traditions and cultures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">The committee is pleased to offer modest travel awards for graduate students. These funds will be determined following abstract selections
and distributed via reimbursement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Below are a few themes we find intriguing which are by no means exhaustive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Presence and absence manifest in:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Materiality</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [idols, relics, objects]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Spaces</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [shrines, pilgrimages, natural worlds, alternate worlds, boundaries]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Texts</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [recitation of, reading practices]<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Experiences</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [epiphanies, trances, visions, ecstasies, possessions, transcendental
states, and paranormality] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Persons</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [authorities, prophets, practitioners, scholars]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Technologies</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> [machines, virtual worlds, robots, cyborgs, artificial intelligence]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">As well as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Spaces between absence and presence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Conceptions of the divine as present and/or absent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Influence of conceptions of modernity and secularism on religious/spiritual presence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">The universality of presence and absence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Please send a 250-word abstract, an academic CV, and any questions to:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><a href="mailto:iugradconf@gmail.com">iugradconf@gmail.com</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">
by <b>December 31</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Please provide all submissions in
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">We will notify applicants of acceptance status via email by: January 18<sup>.</sup>, 2017</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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