A Call for Papers
June 22, 2010
Deadline extended to Monday, June 28th
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APARRI 2010 Conference: Bridging Yesterday and Tomorrow: Memory and Generational Change in Pacific and Asian North America
August 5–7, 2010 | McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
We encourage work in multiple and diverse religious contexts.
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Submission Deadline: Monday, June 28, 2010.
Submit proposals via email: Joe Cheah, jpcheah @ aol.com
As we begin the second decade of the 21st century, this year’s conference theme calls for a look back and a forward vision to see the connections between generations. For many people, memory and generation modifies or recreates religious identity. We can see these dynamics in the processes accompanying immigration, but we can also see them when people pass their faith on to future generations or develop a new religious identity themselves. How the dynamics of memory and generational change occur for APA communities depends on the particular ways each group and generation negotiates life in the U.S. Whether APA communities can point to five generations in North America, or are recently arrived, religion and how it sustains and transforms Asian Pacific America is the focus of our 2010 APARRI meeting. This year’s theme calls for analyses of the experiences across generations, inviting participants to pursue nontraditional fields of study and other topics needing research and investigation. Stepping across theoretical and disciplinary boundaries is encouraged.
Entitled “Bridging Yesterday and Tomorrow: Memory and Generational Change in Religious Pacific and Asian North America” the 2010 conference will be held August 5-7 on the campus of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL. Plenaries feature a discussion on memory, the role of personal faith in academia, and an intergenerational panel. Plenary Speakers include Anju Bhargava (Member of President Obama’s Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships), Bandana Purkayastha (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut), Peter Cha (Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Soong-Chan Rah (Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism, North Park Theological Seminary), Roy Sano (Bishop, the United Methodist Church), and Mai-Anh Tran (Assistant Professor of Christian Education, Eden Theological Seminary). Concurrent sessions will showcase research-in-progress, and structured mentoring sessions will be available for students and junior faculty members.
The APARRI conference began among a group of doctoral students and early career scholars of religion and theology, who desired to support and engage each other’s scholarship in an interdisciplinary fashion. Allotted concurrent sessions are designed to continue this cross-disciplinary engagement. Presenters are encouraged to share their research and works-in-progress with other APARRI participants by organizing panels, presenting papers on their research, and/or by structuring small group dialogue sessions on an important topic of inquiry in the study of Asian North American and Pacific Island religions. Selected papers/sessions will be scheduled during our concurrent session times.
Some concurrent session time will also be designated for papers/panels that have come from managing board invitations.
APARRI is a community advancing the interdisciplinary study of Asian Pacific Americans and their religions. Through conferences, mentoring, and collaboration, APARRI promotes the professional development of scholars and the distinctive field of Asian Pacific American religious studies.
