April 24-27, 2024
Online and in-person
Hosted by Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality, Cambridge, MA, USA
Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is delighted to announce that our spring 2024 conference will be organized around the theme of “Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts.” We invite practitioners and scholars who identify as Indigenous, Diasporic, Settler, and/or Immigrant to join in a dialogue that works toward spiritual traditions characterized by solidarity and mutual transformation rather than colonial violence.
Our conference will explore the many ways in which spiritual practices, especially those from beyond the religious mainstream, mirror and resist the imperial contexts in which they are rooted. Given the pervasiveness of imperial, extractive and settler colonialist systems, we assume that all spiritualities have colonial dimensions and, as such, have possibilities for anti-colonial or decolonial responses. We welcome proposals for papers, workshops, and performances that explore these dimensions, or other aspects of alternative and evolving spiritualities.
Proposal deadline: December 1, 2023