Toronto, May 10-11, American Academy of Religion (AAR) Eastern Regional Meeting

American Academy of Religion (AAR) Eastern Regional Meeting, Toronto

2013 Eastern International Regional Meeting
May 10–11, 2013
University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

For program highlights and registration information, see:
https://sites.google.com/site/aareirtoronto/abbreviated-program
Highlights:
Friday, May 10, 2013
9:15am: Opening Address: Dr. Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto)
9:30-10:30am: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Simon Coleman, University of Toronto.
Title TBA
Location: Bahen 1130
Saturday, May 11, 2013
9:30-10:30am: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rosalind Hackett (University of Tennessee)
"The (Im)Materiality of (Sacred) Sound"
Location: Bahen 113
Saturday, May 11, 2013
2:00-3:30pm
Panel 1: "Mediation and Materiality in Africa"
An invited panel on the 2013 AAR-EIR's special theme, "Material Religion."
Organized by Dr. S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College)
Chair: Dr. S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College)
Location: Bahen 1200
Dr. Emilio Spadola (Colgate University)
"Exorcising the Difference the Medium Makes: Islamic Exorcisms as Call;
Call to
Islam as Exorcism"
Dr. Sonia Silva (Skidmore College)
"We are all fetishists"
Dr. Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum)
"The Medium is the Message?: Cloth in Madagascar."