[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfP: Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, Transformations , of Modernity, 1-3.12.2002, Dartmouth, NH

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  Florian Bieber <florianbieber at gmx.net> wrote: From Florian Bieber Thu May 9 15:08:18 2002
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From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 00:08:18 +0200
Subject: [balkans] CfP: Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, Transformations , of Modernity, 1-3.12.2002, Dartmouth, NH

From: H-TURK at h-net.msu.edu

Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 20:16:19 +0000
From: Kevin Reinhart <kevin.reinhart at Dartmouth.EDU>

Call for Papers:  "Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and
Transformations of Modernity," Humanities Institute, Dartmouth College

The Humanities Institute invites proposals for papers to be presented at a
conference scheduled for December 1, 2 , 3, 2002.  This upcoming Institute
will examine the concept of "conversion" in a broad sense as it operated
during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Ottoman domain, Indian Islamdom,
and
the Sino-Japanese worlds.

While the concept of "conversion"has strong religious connotations, many
works
on religious conversion recognize that often not just the converted, but the
converter as well is changed---a transformation that demonstrates the
complex,
sometimes contradictory outcomes of cultural and ideological adaptation.
Conversion can take place in a number of modes: forcible and voluntary,
collective and individual, or any combination of these.

Historical instances such as conversion to tennôsei ideology in Japan, or to
"modern laicism" in Turkey suggest that conversion may be viewed
constructively in larger terms as political and ideological processes:
conversion as cultural appropriation---the adoption by subordinate groups of
dominant discourses, customs, and institutional forms; conversion as the
redefinition of spatial categories- East-West, rural-urban, empire-colony;
or
conversion as an reordering of social class and the blurring of ethnic and
gender categories. The extensive literature on religious conversion will
prove
useful in analyzing these types of socio-cultural transformations. For a
more
complete description of the conference, go to the Institute's website:
www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/converting.html

Presenters will be provided room and a travel stipend. The goal of this
conference is to produce an edited volume and presenters will be expected to
make a draft of their paper available before the conference. Final drafts
will
be expected by June 1, 2003

Please send a one-page paper proposal/abstract either to:
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College
Carpenter Hall
Hanover, NH  03755
or Humanities.Center at dartmouth.edu



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