James McHugh - "Medieval Hinduism and the Scent(s) of Religion"
James McHugh, Department of Religion, University of Southern California
Dana Katz - “Ghetto Eyes”
Dana Katz, Department of Art, Reed College
Meredith Gamer - “Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century”
Meredith Gamer, History of Art
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