Agenda: Exploring Other Worlds: Constructing, Locating, and Navigating Imagined Religious Space
October 1, 2015
1:00pm to 2:00pm - Registration
2:15pm to 3:15pm - Keynote Presentation
Prof. D. Max Moerman
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Cartographies of Religion: Visual Culture and the Spatial Imagination
3:30pm to 5:30pm - Geographies of Alterity, Prof. Shahzad Bashir, Respondent
Mitchell Winter
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
Unearthing Hallucinations: Rethinking the Ideologies of Landscape and Ruin in British India
Sarah L. Reeser
But Knowledge Contradicts This Observation”: Seeing, Understanding, and Shaping the Globe in the First Accounts of the New World
Kevin Whitesides
Re-Imagining Real Spaces: The Romantic Appeal of Maya Archaeological Sites
Matthew M. Harris
“Sing to the Moon and the Stars Will Shine”: Space Music and Transmission of Another World
October 2, 2015
10:30am to 11:30am - Keynote Presentation
Prof. Robert Tally
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Reflections on Literary Cartography: Rhapsody, Architectonic, World System
11:30am to 11:45am - Break
11:45am to 1:15pm - Reconstructing Cosmologies, Prof. John Kieschnick, Respondent
Matthew D. McMullen
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
The Enlightenment of Plants and Trees: The Soteriological Consequences of a Cosmos Without Borders
Meera Kachroo
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Mapping Maṇidvīpa: the manifestation of Amritananda’s inner vision at Devipuram
Andrew Monteith
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Translinguistics and Time Dilations: Terence McKenna and the Stakes of Psychonaut Cosmologies
11:45am to 1:15pm - Reconstructing Cosmologies, Prof. John Kieschnick, Respondent
Matthew D. McMullen
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
The Enlightenment of Plants and Trees: The Soteriological Consequences of a Cosmos Without Borders
1:15pm to 2:15pm - Break
2:15pm to 4:15pm - Textual Worlds Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert, Respondent
Jonathan Thumas
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
EmPlacing Text through Text: Temple Origins and the Production of Sacred Mountains in Early Medieval Japan
Tanvir Ahmed
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
A Genealogy of Revolt: The Musha’sha’īya Movement and the Early Shi’i Messianic Tradition
Carli Anderson
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
“A Lamp Unto My Feet:” Traversing Imagined Space Through Bodily Metaphors of Feet in the Book of Psalms
Sara DeLozier
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Mystical Dreams and Beautiful Birds: Spaces of Necessary Transcendence in The Dream of the Rood and The Phoenix
4:15pm to 4:30pm - Break
4:30pm to 5:30pm - Panel between Prof. D. Max Moerman and Prof. Robert Tally