{"id":6722,"date":"2013-06-19T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2013-06-19T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T04:36:12","slug":"aar-panel-on-latours-gifford-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/06\/19\/aar-panel-on-latours-gifford-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"AAR panel on Latour&#8217;s Gifford Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The AAR panel responding to 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holbergprisen.no\/en\/holberg-prize-2013.html\">Holberg Prize winner<\/a> Bruno Latour&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/humanities-soc-sci\/news-events\/lectures\/gifford-lectures\/archive\/series-2012-2013\/bruno-latour\/latour\">Gifford Lectures<\/a> has now been scheduled. Information is as follows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/--xAfcTWGDjA\/S7Vkj9ggieI\/AAAAAAAFu-4\/tPWceZDV1UI\/Bosch%25252C%252520Garden%252520of%252520Earthly%252520Delights%2525201510.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh5.ggpht.com\/--xAfcTWGDjA\/S7Vkj9ggieI\/AAAAAAAFu-4\/tPWceZDV1UI\/Bosch%25252C%252520Garden%252520of%252520Earthly%252520Delights%2525201510.jpg?resize=323%2C355\" width=\"323\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, &amp; THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Session A23-203<\/p>\n<p>(Co-sponsors: Social Theory &amp; Religion Cluster and Religion &amp; Ecology Group)<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Saturday November 23 &#8211; 1:00 PM-3:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Convention Center (room TBA)<\/p>\n<p>Presider: Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont (organizer)<\/li>\n<li>Bron Taylor, University of Florida<\/li>\n<li>Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University<\/li>\n<li>William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Morton, Rice University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Responding: Bruno Latour, Science Po Paris<\/p>\n<p>This roundtable session will explore and respond to the themes of the 2013 Gifford Lectures, delivered by anthropologist of science and philosopher Bruno Latour on the topic of \u201cFacing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Full description<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>The facets of Bruno Latour\u2019s scholarship span a diverse breadth and depth: the sociology of science and technology, the formulation and development of actor-network theory, the theorization of agency in a more-than-human world, and the anthropology of modernity, including changing relations between science, politics, and the secular and sacred. In his 2013 Gifford Lectures, Latour probed the theme of \u201cFacing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion.\u201d Nature, Latour posited, can be seen as a theological construct that ought to be \u201csecularized,\u201d but this should enable us to renew our attention to the \u201cagencies\u201d and \u201ccollectives\u201d we composit in our interaction with the world. The Gaia hypothesis, like the term \u201canthropocene,\u201d presents for Latour an enigmatic set of features that redistribute agencies in all possible ways, raising the question of how to develop a \u201cdiplomacy\u201d for a post-humanocentric world, a Gaian \u201cpolitical theology\u201d by which we might develop new collective rituals \u2013 \u201cworks of art and experiments able to explore in sufficient detail the scientific and political composition of the common world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Latour\u2019s arguments touch on several vital strands of theoretical debate within the study of religion, including the historical construction of the very category \u201creligion\u201d and its interaction with changing ideas about science and nature, modernity and postmodernity, relativism, pluralism, globalization, and the possibility of critique. This roundtable will encompass a range of responses to Latour\u2019s challenge from leading scholars at the intersections of nature, science, religion, cultural theory, popular spirituality, and the micro and macro politics of an ever more global society. Confirmed panelists include scholars of religion and nature (Bron Taylor), immanence and secularism (William Connolly), ecology and enchantment (Jane Bennett), ecological cultural critique (Timothy Morton), and global geopolitics and identity (political scientist Daniel Deudney). Between them, the panelists will query Latour\u2019s \u201ccosmopolitical\u201d proposals and respond to the questions his lectures raised from a variety of scholarly and applied perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The panel is being organized in parallel with a special issue of the <i>Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture<\/i> (<i>JSRNC<\/i>) dedicated to Latour and his Gifford Lectures on \u201cnatural religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour&#8217;s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. 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