The 5th Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference: Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands

11 Mar The 5th Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference: Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands

THE FIFTH BIENNIAL BORDERLANDS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands

Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into contact, often without any one authority exercising complete control. The Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways borderlands encounters have stimulated the creation, definition, and/or adaptation of faith identities among various groups of people.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
Friday, March 11
3:30-4:30 PM / Refreshments/Meet and Greet

4:30 PM / Introductions and Welcoming Comments

4:30-5:30 PM / Keynote Address by Christine Shepardson, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “Bordering on Heresy: Early Syrian Orthodoxy and the Negotiation of Religious Identity”

5:30-7:00 PM / Reception

Saturday, March 12
9:00-10:00 AM / Coffee Hour

10:00-11:20 AM / Panel 1: State Building and Unbuilding: The State in Transition

• “Imperial Imposition and Native Self-Determination: Zuni, Yaqui, and the Adoption of Catholicism” – Karl Isaac Johnson, Religion, Yale Divinity School
• “‘Is it Better to Send them Back?’: the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the New Deal and Mexican Migration in the Era of Repatriation” – Maggie Elmore, History, University of California, Berkeley
• “A Protestant-Catholic borderland? The impact of religious boundaries on the Swedish-French alliance during the Thirty Years’ War” – Eric Ladenthin, History, University Greifswald, Germany

11:30 AM-12:50 PM / Panel 2: The Stories We Live: Fashioning Identity through Fiction and Narrative

• “Athletic, Athletic, geuria! Soccer Fandom, Race, and Nationalism at Athletic Club de Bilbao” – Mariel Aquino, History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Forging Fictional Religious Worlds: American Religious Border Making and Contestation” – Nathan Fredrickson, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Across Borders: Narrating Faith and Identity in Scandinavian Jewish Literature” – Franziska Sajdak, Scandinavian Literary Studies, University Greifswald, Germany

1:00-2:30 PM / Lunch (provided for presenters)

2:30-4:10 PM / Panel 3: Stuck in the Middle with You: Negotiating Religious Identity in the Midst of Empire

• “Apostasy and Legality in the Russian Caucasus in the XIX Century” – Sergey Saluschev, History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Shifting Values in Colonial Andean Borderlands: the Sacred and Science in Andean Metallurgy and Mining” – Gabrielle Greenlee, Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz
• “Borderlands of Conversion: Sufi Muslim Converts Renegotiating Faith and Identity in 21^st Century France and Italy” – Lulie El-Ashry, Religion, Harvard University
• “Indigenous Land Ownership in the Praying Towns of the New England Borderlands” – Taylor Kirsch, History, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:20-5:40 PM / Panel 4: Consumers and Producers: Communities Built through Image and Practice

• “Marginal Shoppers: Mormons and the Marketplace” – Sasha Coles, History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Delacroix’s Art and Travel in the Contact Zone: Transculturation with Moroccan Jews” – Laura Colkitt, Art History, University of South Florida
• “The Malleable Myth of Europa” – Christy Cones, Classics, University of California, Irvine

7:00 PM / Dinner (no-host)

Sunday, March 13
9:00-10:00 AM / Coffee Hour

10:00-11:20 AM / Panel 5: Navigating the Borders of Faith in the Mediterranean World

• “Christian or Roman: Performance and Identity Formation” – Kathryn Phillips, Anthropology/Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Riverside
• “Julian Recast: Failure of a Cultural Entrepreneur” – Peninah Wolpo, History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Cave as Borderland: Forging Faith in the Medieval Italian Rupestral Mezzogiorno, c. 950-1150” – Kalin Yamboliev, History, University of California, Santa Barbara

11:30 AM-12:00 PM / Closing Comments by Hal Drake, History, University of California, Santa Barbara

12:00-1:00 PM / Reception

All events held in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6^th Floor)

Sponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG, UCSB Graduate Student Association, Virgil Cordano OFM Endowment in Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB, the Departments of Anthropology, Classics, Comparative Literature, History, Global Studies, History of Art and Architecture, Religious Studies, and Sociology at UCSB, the California Consortium for the Study of Late Antiquity, and the Drake Fund.