Tamara Sears - “Encountering Ascetics and Experiencing Asceticism in Early Medieval India”
Tamara Sears, History of Art
Opher Mansour - “Beyond the Black Legend: Approaches to Early-Modern Religious Censorship”
Opher Mansour, Catholic University, History of Art
Narges Erami - “Sensory Archives: The Making of Shi'a Identity”
Narges Erami, Anthropology
Matt Gunterman - “Between Sanitary and Sacred: Holy Communion and the Protestant Response to Bacteriology, 1890-1920”
Matt Gunterman, History of Medicine
Graeme Reid - “The Gay Leading Lady: Dressing, Singing, and Healing in the Ethiopian Holy Baptist Church in Zion"
Graeme Reid, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sally Promey - “Hearts and Stones: Material Transformations and the Stuff of American Christian Practice”
Sally Promey, American Studies; ISM; Religious Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discussant: Kariann Yokota, American Studies; History
Perin Gurel - “Sing o Djinn!: Violence, Memory, and Narrative in The Bastard of Istanbul”
Perin Gurel, American Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discussants: Erinn Staley, Religious Studies; and Anna Kesson, History of Art
Meredith Gamer - “Reconsidering George Morland’s Slave Trade and African Hospitality: Slavery, Sentiment, and the Limits of the Abolitionist Image”
Meredith Gamer, History of Art
Discussants: Erinn Staley, Religious Studies; and Anna Kesson, History of Art
Ellen Gough - “The Power of Powder: Modern Jain Monks’ Daily Meditation on Mandalas”
Ellen Gough
Department of Religious Studies
Emory University
“The Power of Powder: Modern Jain Monks' Daily Meditation on Mandalas”