CFP – Religious Perspectives and Alternative Futures in an Age of Humans

We are pleased to announce an upcoming conference opportunity of interest to ISSRNC members. “Religious Perspectives and Alternative Futures in an Age of Humans” will be held on May 17-20, 2018 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IL.

The conveners of the conference do not assume that the Anthropocene is a given. Instead, they welcome critical engagement with the language, concepts, and social imaginaries of the Anthropocene. Proposals are particularly welcome that critically analyze religious presuppositions of Anthropocene concepts and narratives; challenge the presumed neutrality of Anthropocene narratives and futures; propose alternative approaches to understanding agency in the Anthropocene; actively engage with indigenous perspectives, including alternative cosmological, narrative, and ethical frameworks for action; develop feminist approaches to conceiving temporal aspects of environmental change, technology and religion; and/or create intellectual space for conceiving of environmental change in different ways, temporally, experientially, or otherwise. Paper proposals are due on January 15, 2018. A full description of the call for proposals is available here.

This conference is part of a multi-year, multi-university project, “Being Human in the Age of Humans: Perspectives from Religion and Ethics,” funded by Humanities Without Walls and led by Lisa Sideris (Indiana University), Celia Deane-Drummond (Notre Dame), Sarah Fredericks (University of Chicago) and Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University).