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."