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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, April 21, 2026 8:30 am to 5:30 p
 m \n JHB 100 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St George Street, Toro
 nto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nDescription: \nThe 2026 DSR Graduate Student Conference
  Committee is delighted to bring this event back after a hiatus of several
  years and to join in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Department f
 or the Study of Religion. This conference brings together an interdiscipli
 nary group of students from many different departments and institutions. O
 ur hope is that this gathering brings together those who share a commitmen
 t to exchanging ideas, exploring new perspectives, and an enthusiasm for
  the study of religion in all its forms.—Cliel Shdaimah, Grace Feeney, S
 hannon Drew, Vivek ShahTHIS IS EVENT IS OPEN TO REGISTERED ATTENDEES ONLY
 . REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Day 2 of 2: Tuesday, April 21 (see also Day
  1, Monday, April 20) 8:30-9:30 Welcome9:30-11:00  PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGI
 ON PANEL Ariel LaFayette, 'Evaluating the Role of Grace in Kierkegaard’s 
 “Work of Love in Recollecting the One Who is Dead”' Nicolas Sarian, 'Dest
 ruction as Mediation: Luxury and the Economic Production of Value' William
  Hunt and Mateos Labbé-Phelan, 'Tongues of Fire: Albert Ayler’s ‘Love Cry
 ’'11:30-1:00 RELIGION IN TORONTO PANEL Alison Cleverley, 'A Workshop on K
 nowledge Mobilization at the Intersection of U of T's Campus Landscape and
  it's Religious History' Cole Van Der Velden, 'Fear of the World: The Hin
 dering Effect of Complex Religion on Educational Attainment' Emily Dumais\
 , '“Love is a Holy Thing”: Memory-Making at the Metropolitan Community Chu
 rch’s 25th A\niversary of the World’s First Same-Sex Marriage' Phenix Lin\
 , 'Faith Intertwined with Ethnicity: Chinese Christian Experiences of Conv
 ersion, Baptism, and Community in Toronto'  1:00-2:00 LUNCH   2:00-3:30 
 RELIGION AND AI PANEL Amanda Ghany, 'The Psychoanalysis of Involuntary Ce
 libates' Felicia Sang, 'Tongue Diagnosis Robots: When Traditional Chinese
  Medicine Meets Artificial Intelligence' Grace Feeney, 'Not a spectrum bu
 t a surrogate: between cuteness and abjection' Ridhima Sharma, 'Dharma in
  the age of AI: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masculine 'Dharma Maxxing''TA
 MIL STUDIES PANEL (JHB 616) Janani Comar, 'Identity Matters: Iyothee Thas
 s’s construction of Tamil Buddhist Identity through literary history' Jess
 e Pruitt, 'A Controversialist In the Colonial Court: Critical Notes on th
 e Eulogistic and Condemnatory Biographies of Nā. Katiraivēṟ Piḷḷai' Pravee
 n Vijaykumar, 'Twentieth-century Vernacular Caste Genealogies in Print' S
 tephanie Duclos-King, 'Protestant, Pentecostal, Charismatic?: Christian
  Care at a Medical Missionary Institution'4:00-5:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: PROFE
 SSOR FILIP ANDJELKOVIC, 'House Tour: I Promise None of This is a Metaphor
 '7:00-9:00 RECEPTION The conference committee thanks all its sponsors for 
 their generosity in supporting the 2026 DSR Graduate Student Conference.• 
 A\ne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies • Centre for Comparative Literatu
 re • Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies • Cinema Studies Instit
 ute • Department of East Asian Studies • Department of English • Departmen
 t of Historical Studies (UTM) • Department of Historical and Cultural Stud
 ies (UTSC) • Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Departmen
 t of Philosophy • Department of Political Science • Department for the Stu
 dy of Religion • Emmanuel College • Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies • Mark 
 Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies • St. Augustine’s Seminary • St
 . Michael’s College • University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union (UTGS
 U) • University of Trinity College • Victoria College • Wycliffe College •
  \n170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nCategories \n Conference 
 \n\nAudiences \n DSR Faculty & StaffGeneralU of T CommunityGraduate Studen
 tsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Conference 2026 - Day 2 of 2
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/gsaconf2026_day2
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