CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH 2014

Julius Glickman Conference Center room CLA 1.302B   

7:00pm-8:00pm First Keynote Address
"Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Great Migration"             
 Dr. Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University            

8:00pm-9:00pm Opening Reception - Julius Glickman Conference Room foyer
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH
Julius Glickman Conference Center room CLA 1.302B 

10:00 am-11:30 am Remixing Pop Culture
The Spirit of the Scene: America Camping Music Festivals 
Scott Muir, Duke University

Henna's a Jewish Thing? Jewish Henna Ceremonies and Religious Creativity
Noam Sienna, University of Toronto

Folk-Tronica and Evangelical Mysticism: The Recombinatory Music of David*Crowder Band
Courtney Tepera, Temple University 

Respondent: Jennifer Graber, The University of Texas 
Discussion 

11:30am-1:00pm Lunch 

1:00pm-2:30 pm Remixing Self and Others

Reassembling Religions: A New Materialist Method for Studying People and Things in Religious Studies
Sonia Hazard, Duke University

Competition and Transcendence in the Jain Philosophy of Synthesis
Anil Mundra, University of Chicago Divinity School

The Spiritual but Not Religious Subject at Play in the Metamodernist West
Linda Ceriello, Rice University 

Respondent: Martha Newman, The University of Texas
Discussion

3:00pm-3:15 pm Coffee Break 

3:15pm-3:45 pm Agents of Remixing

Cross-Fertilization: The Pastor, The Woman and the Unholy Matrimony of Belief
Abimbola Adelakun, The University of Texas at Austin

Bovine Peace Sacrifice in the South Sudan: Employing Conceptual Mixture to Interpret Religious Mixture
Ross Kane, University of Virginia 

Devotees and Detractors of Shirdi Sai Baba, a 'Syncretistic Saint' in Modern India
Jonathan Loar, Emory University

Waiting for the Espiritista: Towards an Ethnograpy of the Ultra-Mundane
Alyssa Maldonado, Princeton University

Respondent: Chad Seales, The University of Texas
Discussion 

4:45pm-5:00 pm Coffee Break 

5:00pm-6:00pm Second Keynote Address
"Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt: Beyond 'Pagan Survivals'" 
 Dr. David Frankfurter, Boston University 

6:30pm Dinner at El Mercado 
 
SUNDAY, APRIL 6TH
Julius Glickman Conference Center room CLA 1.302B 

9:00am-11:00am Remixing, Borders, and Mobility 

Landscapes of Religious Encounter: Region and Identity in Pre-Modern Bengal 
Bennett DiDente Comerford, Harvard University

A Cultural Transmission of a God: The Case of Mithra in Nemrut Dagi
Nina Mazhjoo, Erfurt University

Hesiod’s Father: Religious Synthesis Finds Its Level
Andrew Tobolowsky, Brown University

Respondent: Jo Ann Hackett, The University of Texas
Discussion 

11:00am-11:15am Coffee Break 

11:15am-12:45pm Remixing Religion, Politics, and Law

Codifying a Japanese State Religion: Bateren Zuiho no Fumi as Constructive Synthesis
Robert Greenlee, University of Chicago Divinity School

Borrowing from Three Crates: 16th Century Morisco Religiosity and the Art of Religious Sampling
E. J. Hernandez, Temple University

Separate but Equal: Legal Impediments to Religious Mixing
Lauren Kerby, Boston University

Rethinking Religious Synthesis through a Tibetan Conceptualization of Buddhism and Polity
Ian MacCormack, Harvard University

Respondent: Hina Azam, The University of Texas
Discussion

12:45pm  Lunch - Box lunches catered by Thundercloud Subs