2009-10 Seminar at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY
Bio/Geo Politics of Religion
Co-Directors: Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch
Macaulay Honors College at CUNY invites applications from New York area faculty and doctoral students for the second annual Macaulay Seminar to be held during the 2009-10 academic year. The Macaulay Seminar seeks to generate lively discussion on a topic vital to our time, to enrich teaching, and to help facilitate research toward publication.
The seminar will meet once per month on Monday evenings throughout the year. Each member of the seminar will be expected to participate fully in the Seminar and present a paper at the conference on the same topic to be held April 16-18, 2010 at Macaulay. Participants will be selected from departments across academic divisions to encourage wide-ranging discussion. All full-time faculty members and graduate students are eligible. (Other interested parties are welcome to apply.) A stipend of $750 will be awarded to participants.
This seminar will explore what Michel Foucault called “biopolitics,” the relations of power that focus on the management of life, with specific regard to organized religions and practices of religious conduct. Although recently religion has been widely recognized as a leading force in contemporary life, with movements of both faith-based solidarity and conflict being played out on the world stage, the present context has a long history through which these movements may be understood. Relevant topics might include themes of apocalypticism and millennialism, the economics of evangelicalism, fundamentalist movements over time and space, the policing of bodies and souls, textual literalism and interpretation, bio- and geo-political conjunctions, manuals of guidance and techniques of surveillance, utopian religious communities in life and literature, and connections between ecos, bios, power, and justice. Readings will be selected to accommodate the specific interests and expertise of the participants.
Co-Directors: Lee Quinby is the inaugural Visiting Professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York City. The author of three books, Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994), and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991), she is also editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1988) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (2006).
Sylvia Tomasch is Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs at Macaulay Honors
College and Professor of English at Hunter College, both in the City University of New York. Recent publications include articles on the history of medieval studies, Chaucer, medieval antisemitism, historical cartography, and medieval postcoloniality.
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Application for 2009-10 Seminar
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Please mail this form, project description, and brief CV by July 30, 2009 to: Professors Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch, Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, 35 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023.
Sylvia Tomasch, Ph.D.
(Professor of English, Hunter College)
Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs
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