Columbia University Religion Graduate Students Association

Conference Schedule

Belief Matters: Reconceptualizing Belief and Its Use

2 April 2009
Columbia University
New York City

Hosted by the Columbia University Religion Graduate Students Association

All events will be located in Barnard College's Helene Kaplan Tower Meeting Rooms, located in the 17th floor of Barnard's Sulzberger Hall

8.45-9.25am
Coffee / Registration / Announcements and Opening Remarks by Co-Coordinators

9.30-11.30
Panel 1A: Ways of Believing (Responding: Courtney Bender)
Panel 1B: Theorizing Belief (Responding: Mark Taylor)

11.35-12.25
Opening Address: Penny Edgell, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

12.30-1.30pm
Lunch Break

1.45-3.45
Panel 2A: Counting Believers (Responding: Penny Edgell)
Panel 2B: Belief and the State (Responding: Joshua Dubler)

3.50-5.50
Panel 3A: Belief and Science (Responding: Wayne Proudfoot)
Panel 3B: Belief vs. Practice (Responding: Zareena Grewal)

6.00-6.50
Keynote/Closing Address: Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

7.00-8.00
Closing Reception

See Abstracts for information on panels and papers

See Participants for participant bios