[KS] Symposium Announcement

[Robert C. Provine]

The Institute for the Study of Religion in Society 

      Under the auspices of the Religious Studies Program and the 
      Office of Continuing Education and Summer Session at Cornell
University 

      announces a summer 2000 symposium: 

      Religion and Human Rights: 
      Dialogues on Persecution, Intolerance and Environmental
      Injustice 

      June 26 - July 14, 2000 
      Ithaca, New York on the Cornell campus 

      CALL FOR PAPERS 
      For this international symposium, we are interested in scholars in
      religious studies, area studies, political science, international
law, and
      other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences working on
      issues related to the problem of human rights violations. We are
      seeking those scholars committed to engaging a wider educated
      public in dialogues on the implications of their work beyond the
      borders of the university setting. Our symposium audience will
      include university professors, graduate students, educators,
political
      activists working on human rights and environmental degradation,
      legislators, journalists and people from the media, and clergy
from
      around the world. 

      The symposium will last for three weeks, and those invited to
      present papers and organize panels will be waived the conference
fee
      for the entire symposium. The first week of the symposium is an
      inter-faith dialogue, featuring prominent religious thinkers from
the
      world's religious traditions in dialogue on the nature of the
human
      being, the possibilities of a global human rights, implications of
      religious cultivation for political action, and the conflicting
claims of
      religious ideologies and human rights. Speakers for this
inter-faith
      dialogue are being set in advance. The second and third weeks of
our
      symposium consists of an in-depth academic conference on the
      relationship between religious persecution, religious ideology and
      human rights, and the related problem of environmental degradation
      that often sets in motion or accompanies larger human rights
      violations. The symposium is based on papers grouped in panels as
      well as round table discussions throughout the morning, with focus
      groups and workshops involving all conference attendees throughout
      the afternoon. An evening lecture series featuring prominent
political
      and religious leaders will run throughout the symposium.
Presenters
      are invited to attend the entire three-week symposium, but may
elect
      to attend only portions of the symposium. Full attendance for
three
      weeks is not required to be a presenter at this conference. In
some
      cases, travel and lodging subsidy may be available, particularly
for
      those scholars coming from under-represented areas of the world. 

      We are interested in paper proposals or panel proposals on the
      following topics and issues: 

      … Case studies, up-dates, or historical contextualizations of
      particular human rights violations 
      … Methodological issues relevant to the study of religion and
human
      rights 
      … Case studies of effective activism coming out of faith-based
      communities 
      … Critical studies of the role of religious ideologies in human
rights
      violations 
      … International legal implications of human rights violations
      accountability 
      … Discussions of the effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of
      Human Rights for preserving religious freedom and cultural
integrity
      in key areas around the world 
      … The role of effective media coverage of the religious dimensions
      of conflict and human rights violations 

      Deadlines 

      The deadline for a call for papers or panel proposals is October
15,
      1999. Completed final abstracts according to the conference
      brochure guidelines will be sent to you upon acceptance of your
      paper or panel and are due on February 1, 2000. 

      Please submit the following information by the above deadline of
      October 15, 1999 to: 

      Professor Jane Marie Law 
      Chair, Religious Studies Program 
      Director, The Institute for the Study of Religion in Society 
      182 Rockefeller Hall 
      Cornell University 
      Ithaca, New York 14853 

      Electronic submissions are welcome and should be sent to BOTH: 

      jml16 at cornell.edu (Professor Jane Marie Law, Director) and 

      mm177 at cornell.edu (Melissa Myers, Program Coordinator) 

      Telephone inquiries: 607-255-1326 Fax: 607-255-1345 

      For individual papers please submit the following by October 15,
      1999: 

      … Presenter's full name and academic affiliation 
      … Current CV listing all relevant publications 
      … A description of the paper not to exceed 250 words, with a
      provisional title 

      Please keep in mind that individual papers will be grouped into
      panels with other papers of a similar topic or methodological
      approach. We will make every effort to co-ordinate individual
paper
      presenters' collaboration with other presenters. 

      For panels (not to exceed three papers) and roundtables (not to
      exceed four speakers) please submit the following by October 15,
      1999: 

      … Panel organizer's full name and academic affiliation 
      … Full name, academic affiliation and CV for all presenters 
      … A description of the theme of the panel or roundtable, not to
      exceed 250 words 
      … A brief description of each of the papers, not to exceed 250
      words each 

      Jane Marie Law 
      Associate Professor of Japanese Religions 
      Director, Religious Studies Program 
      H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions 
      388 Rockefeller Hall 
      Cornell University 
      Ithaca, New York 14853-2502


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