Past Conferences

The Columbia Religion Department Graduate Students Association has held annual graduate student conferences since 2005.

Information for the current conference is available here.

Past conferences included:

2012's Pray, Kill, Eat: Relating to Animals across Religious Traditions

2011's Humble Body, Humble Mind: Selflessness, Lowliness, and the Religious

2010's Divining the Message, Mediating the Divine

2009's Belief Matters: Reconceptualizing Belief and Its Use

2008's Instituting Religion: Investigating the Trajectories of the Study of Religion in Institutions of Higher Education

2007's Pop Goes Religion: Exploring the Relationship Between Religion and Popular/Consumer Culture

2006's ReStating Religion: A Conference Reconsidering the Rules

2005's Under Construction: History, Identities, and Narrative in the Studies of Religion