CfP: Global Perspectives on Religion and HIV/AIDS Seminar at the AAR
Global Perspectives on Religion and HIV/AIDS Call for Proposals
The “Global Perspectives on Religion and HIV/AIDS Seminar” is a new program area of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to develop an analysis of the various roles religion has played historically and continues to occupy in shaping the global AIDS pandemic. In addition to building theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding religion and AIDS, we aim to create an anthology appropriate for a wide academic audience interested in the religious and moral dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, including their effects on the lived experience of disease and the formation of religious and public health efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and prevent infection. Much of the work of our multi-year seminar focuses on creating an internally cohesive project that incorporates our diverse methodological and regional perspectives but shares a set of common themes and questions concerning the convergence of religion and HIV/AIDS over the past three decades. We seek to advance existing research and to foster new studies of this important, emerging field and welcome proposals from a range of disciplinary and/or regional perspectives. Please note: you do not have to be a current member of the AAR to propose a project for this seminar. Scholars interested in joining this conversation are encouraged to contact the chairs, Lynne Gerber, l.gerber@berkeley.edu, or Anthony Petro, anthony.petro@nyu.edu, for more information and/or details about submitting a 1-3 proposal/description of project and CV. The current AAR deadline for online submission is March 5, 2012.
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Anthony M. Petro
Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow
Religious Studies Program
New York University
726 Broadway, Suite 554
New York, NY 10003
Office: (212) 992-9657 - Fax: (212) 995-4827
The “Global Perspectives on Religion and HIV/AIDS Seminar” is a new program area of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to develop an analysis of the various roles religion has played historically and continues to occupy in shaping the global AIDS pandemic. In addition to building theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding religion and AIDS, we aim to create an anthology appropriate for a wide academic audience interested in the religious and moral dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, including their effects on the lived experience of disease and the formation of religious and public health efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and prevent infection. Much of the work of our multi-year seminar focuses on creating an internally cohesive project that incorporates our diverse methodological and regional perspectives but shares a set of common themes and questions concerning the convergence of religion and HIV/AIDS over the past three decades. We seek to advance existing research and to foster new studies of this important, emerging field and welcome proposals from a range of disciplinary and/or regional perspectives. Please note: you do not have to be a current member of the AAR to propose a project for this seminar. Scholars interested in joining this conversation are encouraged to contact the chairs, Lynne Gerber, l.gerber@berkeley.edu, or Anthony Petro, anthony.petro@nyu.edu, for more information and/or details about submitting a 1-3 proposal/description of project and CV. The current AAR deadline for online submission is March 5, 2012.
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Anthony M. Petro
Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow
Religious Studies Program
New York University
726 Broadway, Suite 554
New York, NY 10003
Office: (212) 992-9657 - Fax: (212) 995-4827