Knox College Undergraduate Conference in Religious Studies

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Knox College Undergraduate Conference in Religious Studies 2025-10-04T13:49:57-04:00 James F. McGrath

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Robert Geraci passed along this information about an upcoming undergraduate conference in Religious Studies, and with his permission I share it here.

I would like to call your attention to the opportunity for your students to join us for our second annual undergrad conference in religious studies at Knox College! Our theme is Religion In/And/Out/of/Time and we will host folks Oct 24-25. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues also.

Last year’s event was a lot of fun and there was great student work shared. So, I look forward to this event also. Students get a fantastic opportunity to visit with other student scholars, enjoy a fun weekend, and, of course, pad resumes (I mean…practice highly marketable skills at presentation and delivery!). We will have a keynote lecture by Leslie Smith (Avila University) on Friday night of the conference and student panels all day on Saturday.

Here’s a link for students to submit their proposals. As is typical for academics, we’re allowing late submissions, so really the students have all this coming week to submit papers if they’d like to come join us. We have student paper prizes and we’ll provide breakfast and lunch on Saturday.

We’re particularly easy to get to by train or car, but we also have a couple of airports within 45 minutes or so (Peoria, Quad Cities, Burlington).

Here is the additional information on the conference website:

The Religious Studies program at Knox College and the Knight Fund for Religion and Culture are planning our second annual Undergraduate Religious Studies Conference.

This event will be open to any undergraduate student presenting original research or creative work related to the connections between religion and identity. The conference will be free to attend, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday, October 25 will be provided.

The theme of this year’s Undergraduate Religious Studies Conference is “Religions In/and/Out/of Time.”

Religion is a social, cultural and historical phenomenon and is thus bound to time: the past, the present, and the future. The study of religion is grounded in historical work, social scientific inquiry, creative work, and speculation about the future. The question of how religion exists within time and also transcends the boundaries of historical time extends beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. This conference invites presentations that examine religion as the product of particular time(s), as informing our understanding of the present, or as existing outside the confines of history in the unknown future. We also welcome papers that use religion to interrogate human experiences of or assumptions about time (e.g., the divine might be considered to be outside of time as we understand it).

Please contact Scott Harris at [email protected] with any questions.

And from the submission form this additional information:

We welcome undergraduate student papers, paper panels, and “un-papers” that engage with any of the ways that religion intersects with and resists notions of time. This may include, but is not limited to:

Religion and politics (contemporary or historical)

Religion and popular culture (literature, film, television, music, games, etc.)

History of religion, religious practices, or religious texts (ex. changes over time, interpretations in different eras, survival of practices in new contexts)

Psychological, economic or social scientific analyses of religion

Education and religion (ex. debates on school curricula, religious initiatives toward mass education)

Religion and science (ex. healthcare, end-of-life considerations, climate change, conservation, ecology, human evolution)

Religion and technology (ex. digital media, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, cryonics, spaceflight, transhumanism)

Speculative and/or fictional religions

Students who have never presented at an academic conference, students who are presenting research done in a previous or current course, or students who are still formulating research ideas are encouraged to apply. We are especially eager to welcome submissions from students engaged in advanced research (senior theses, honors projects, capstones) related to the study of religion.

Presenters are asked to submit the following:

Presenter name and email address

Institutional affiliation (school name and graduation year)

The name and email address for a faculty mentor associated with the paper

Title of paper or presentation

An abstract for the paper or presentation, no more than 250 words

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