SORAAAD
Open House & Mini Workshop

Sunday - January 12, 2025 - Online
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST US.

Join us for SORAAAD's first Open House of 2025 with"Minimum Valuable Presence" a SORAAAD Social Media Mini Workshop. The Mini-Workshop will walk through developing and maintaining a social media profile and how to connect with the study of religion on social media. We will announce the title for SORAAAD Book Club for April 14, and other events through June and run a round of "Can I h@z PDF." We are also happy to feature our partner, The Edward Bailey Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion. Meet this year's Edward Bailey Keynote for the Implicit Religion UK conference, Monique Moultrie and the Implicit Religion US Keynote, Angela Sutton. Francis Stewart will be available to take questions for the Call for Papers for both conferences and the SORAAAD at Implicit Religion US workshop.

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SORAAAD is sponsored by Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies, University of Regina and the Edward Bailey Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion.

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The Schedule

11:00-11:15 am
Welcome and Introductions
11:15 - 11:35 am
Minimum Valuable Presence: A SORAAAD Social Media Mini Workshop
11:35 am-11:45 am
SORAAAD Book Club- April 13; "Can I h@z PDF," and "Study of" Event Announcements
11:45 am-12:10 pm
Implicit Religion 2025
Meet Monique Moultrie and Angela Sutton. Francis Stewart will answer questions regarding CFPs.
12:10-12:30 pm
Conversation

Representation 2023 (2021)

SORAAAD’s 10th year of workshops, with the theme, "Representation and the Analytical Study of Religion" was interrupted by the COVID surge of early 2021, after talks by Richard Newton and Alana Vincent.

The workshop's events have been on hiatus and will, for now, continue online. SORAAAD will resume its focus on representation over the course of at least 2023-24 academic year.

Attention to representation in research design, including what factors into how we understand religion and conceive of what we should study, were among the workshop’s originating concerns. In its most basic terms, representation is a means of characterizing and accounting for elements in “a sample” from which we generalize in order to characterize phenomena.

Representation conjures simultaneously the need to address the manufacture and designation of alterity and normativity (SORAAAD, 2012 PDF) , to cultivate a capacity to chart arrays of human expression and activity, to recognize and rectify voids, and to allow this work to change how we compare, explain, and conceptualize (Long, 1995; Moultrie, 2017, Compton et. al, 2017, Garland-Thomson, 2015)
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