Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Feb 2014 until 28 Feb 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Knox Hall
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Thursday 27 – Friday 28 February, 2014
Knox Hall | 606 W 122 St. | Columbia University
Join us for our fifth annual graduate conference! MESAAS is heir and host to a rich bricolage of work braiding together a unique vision of area studies, emphasizing what can be learned from, and not simply about, non-Western traditions and systems of thought. We foreground a critical geographical framework for our research, resisting prevalent disciplinary paradigms in the West that render post-colonial societies objects of study rather than living sources of knowledge.
Keynote Speaker: Ruth Marshall, University of Toronto
Keynote Address: “Global” Christianity in the Postcolony: Reflections on the Politics of Knowledge
Friday 28th February, 6–7 pm, 501 Schermerhorn
Ruth Marshall is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (U. Chicago Press, 2009) and numerous articles on the studyof Pentecostalism, postcolonial politics, war and citizenship in West Africa. For more information on this year’s program, visit our website http://www.mesaasgradcon.org/