From U of T: call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop

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We are pleased to announce this call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop. Please note the call for proposals has been updates as of October 25th.

Graduate Fellows Workshop - Religion and Human Security

March 2011

Call for Proposals – Updated October 25th Deadline: December 17, 2010

The University of Toronto Religion in the Public Sphere Initiative, housed at the Centre for the Study of Religion, invites proposals for the 2011 University of Toronto Graduate Fellows Workshop on the theme of Religion and Human Security.

Current debates on religion's role in the public sphere have framed religion’s relationship to human security as confrontational. This Fellows Workshop, in response, seeks to encourage critical reflection on the themes of religion and human security in a post-9/11 world by examining the contention that religion is not simply a threat to which security forces, government policies and public debate should react or respond. Rather, religion is deeply bound to the practice and construction of security, to the very idea of what it means to be secure, immune from threat, sound, holy or saved. The Workshop seeks contributions from across the social science and humanities disciplines which might problematize in a new way the intersection of religion and security thus broadly understood.

Applications are welcome from advanced graduate students from all faculties, centres, and institutes within the University of Toronto. Students should be working on dissertation research related to religion and security, very broadly conceived, and have a minimum of one chapter completed.

Fellows will meet twice in the winter term of 2011: once in a preparatory workshop, and once at a one-day workshop in March, 2011, where each Fellow will present a research paper and have the chance to invite a scholar to respond to his or her work. The Graduate Fellows will also attend the Religion in the Public Sphere Public Forum on the topic of Food and Religion.

For more information about RPS see www.rps.chass.utoronto.ca, or contact Prof. Frances Garrett at religion.publicsphere@utoronto.ca.

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