Cork Conference Program 2019

Religion â&#x20AC;˘ Water â&#x20AC;˘ Climate:

Changing Cultures and Landscapes

2019

The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture in partnership with

University College Cork IAHR Special Conference, hosted by UCC Study of Religions Department

Acknowledgements This conference is co-sponsored by University College Cork (UCC) Study of Religions Department and the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC). We would like to thank the following organizations for their help in making the 2019 Religion/Water/Climate Conference possible.

Supporting Institutions and Organizations • Cork City Council Lord Mayor’s Office • Equinox Publishing House • Fáilte Ireland National Tourism Development Authority • International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) • International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) • Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC) • The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale • The Religion and Extinction Network • University College Cork • UCC Study of Religions Department

Table of Contents 4

ISSRNC President’s Welcome

UCC Welcome

Conference Committees

ISSRNC Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 – Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Featured Speakers Bios

Conference Schedule Overview

Conference Schedule (Thursday)

Conference Schedule (Friday)

Conference Schedule (Saturday)

Conference Schedule (Sunday)

Conference Schedule (Online Panels)

About Conference Partners – UCC

About Conference Partners – MEWSC and IAHR

ISSRNC Board of Directors

ISSRNC Mission and Prospects

ISSRNC Working Groups

Conferences 2006 – 2019

ISSRNC Awards and Committees

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (JSRNC)

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Social Media and Wi-Fi

Local Attractions

All Gender Restroom and Nursing Mothers/Baby Changing Maps

UCC Campus Map & Building Key 3

ISSRNC President’s Welcome It is a pleasure to welcome you to the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture’s conference on Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes, co-sponsored by University College Cork, in association with the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) and hosted by UCC’s Study of Religions Department. After more than a year of planning we are delighted to be here at UCC, continuing to cultivate and nourish the connections that make our field exciting, effervescent, and energizing. While the intersection of our many disciplines has always produced refreshing and invigorating scholarship, our ongoing conversations have become more urgent and more socially relevant than ever before. Water, metaphorically and literally, connects everything on our little planet. Recognizing, analyzing, and working through the implications of those connections is no longer optional. Our discussions this week, in the sessions and in between, will connect us as well – across continents and disciplines. The papers and panels you’ve brought to Cork speak to our shared future and the future our Society shares with the rest of the planet. This process began with the first ISSRNC conference in 2006 and has grown every year. I’m always reminded of Plato’s description of philosophy as “conversation with your friends,” and our ongoing exploration of the relationships between religion, nature, and culture have always produced friendships as well as scholarly insight. That conversation continues beyond our conferences through the Society Journal, listserv, and website working groups. As current president I wish to thank University College Cork and especially Dr. Jenny Butler for managing the blizzard of logistics at the conference site. We are also grateful to the additional sponsors and partners listed elsewhere in this program. The ISSRNC organizing and program committees deserves special thanks: Amanda Baugh, Whitney Bauman, Evan Berry, Jenny Butler, Chris Crews, David Haberman, Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Michael Northcott, Sarah Pike, Kelsey Ryan-Simkins, Kristina Tiedje, and Robin Veldman. Many thousand thanks to all of you for sharing your work and for your contributions to the continued growth of our Society. Enjoy the conference!

Yours, Mark C.E. Peterson, ISSRNC President Professor of Philosophy University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

UCC Welcome Dear Delegates, Céad Míle Fáilte! On behalf of University College Cork, I am delighted to welcome you to our university for the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture ‘Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes Conference’, an important event that brings together colleagues from different disciplines, perspectives, and parts of the world for what I believe will be valuable discussions on the theme of religion, water, nature and climate change. This year’s meeting is multidisciplinary in focus and divided into a variety of interesting and exciting panels and keynote addresses. This year will see the first hosting of an ISSRNC conference in Ireland which will, significantly for the field of study of religions, also be the first time a Special Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) will be held in Ireland. The conference keynote speakers, Dr Marion Bowman, Professor Siv Ellen Kraft, and Professor Marianne Lien, are supported by the ISSRNC, UCC Study of Religions Department, and UCC’s Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC). It is a great honour for us to host an ISSRNC conference here and I would like to extend my gratitude to my colleagues on the ISSRNC Board of Directors and membership for their foresight and preparations to bring the conference here. I would also like to extend my thanks to my academic and administrative colleagues here at UCC for their work, support and help in making this a very smooth organizational process. I hope you enjoy the conference and your visit to Cork.

Dr. Jenny Butler, Local Organizer Member-at-Large of the ISSRNC Board of Directors Secretary of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR)

Conference Committees Organizing Committee Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge Evan Berry, American University Jenny Butler, University College Cork Michael Northcott, University of Heidelberg Mark Peterson, University of Wisconsin Colleges Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico Kristina Tiedje, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Robin Veldman, Texas A&M University

Program Committee Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge Whitney Bauman, Florida International University Evan Berry, American University Jenny Butler, University College Cork Chris Crews, The New School David Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Michael Northcott, University of Heidelberg Mark Peterson, University of Wisconsin Colleges Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico Kelsey Ryan-Simkins, The Ohio State University Kristina Tiedje, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Website and Graphic Design Chris Crews, The New School

ISSRNC Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Professors Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) is pleased to announce that Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim have been selected as the 2019 recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award for their outstanding contributions to the study of religion, nature, and culture. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes distinguished figures whose work has a relevance and eloquence that speaks, not just to scholars, but more broadly to the public and to multiple disciplines. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are foundational to the field of religion and ecology. They burst into this academic scene with the organization of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University in the latter half of the 1990s, a time when many were still wondering how the words “religion” and “ecology” went together. Ten volumes of collected works drawn from these conferences were published by Harvard University Press in Religions of the World and Ecology, a series edited by Tucker and Grim. When the ten conferences drew to a close, Tucker and Grim kept up the momentum by founding the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, an international, multireligious project that aims to broaden understanding of the environmental crisis by exploring religious worldviews, texts, and ethics. The Forum hosts conferences, supports publishing projects, and maintains a vibrant website (http://fore.yale.edu). The Forum also hosts an annual luncheon at the American Academy of Religion meetings that is legendary for its nurturing and stimulating atmosphere. Both Tucker and Grim currently hold joint appointments at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Divinity School, and the Department of Religious Studies. Co-directing the Forum, they have continued to organize influential conferences and workshops, and nurture scores of religion and ecology scholars. As public intellectuals, they have been called to speak at many important national and international gatherings. Largely as a result of their efforts, religion and ecology is now established as a subject of study in many colleges and universities. Together Tucker and Grim have published over twenty books and hundreds of articles, including Ecology and Religion (Island Press, 2014) and Thomas Berry: A Biography (Colombia, 2019). They both studied with the cultural historian and ecologian Thomas Berry as graduate students. This early connection has had a lasting impact on them with productive results, including the creation (with Brian Swimme) of the award-winning film Journey of the Universe (www.journeyoftheuniverse. org), with an accompanying book and video conversations with scientists, environmentalists, and educators, as well as online courses. It would be difficult to find a scholar with an interest in religion, nature, and ecology that has not been inspired by these two and affected personally by their generosity. 7

Featured Speakers Dr. Marion Bowman has worked in the Religious Studies department at The Open University since 2000. She

is now a Guest Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway, and serves as the Vice-President of the European Association for the Study of Religions. Working at the interstices of religious studies and folklore/ethnology, Marion’s research interests are rooted in contemporary vernacular religion – the experiences, worldviews, beliefs, practices and material culture of individuals and groups in specific locations and contexts – and she has conducted a long term study of the town of Glastonbury. A former president of both the British Association for the Study of Religions and of The Folklore Society, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo 20162018, having also previously been a visiting lecturer/professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia; University of Bayreuth, Germany; University of Pecs, Hungary; Abo Akademi, Finland; and University of Bergen, Norway. Marion was Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals, Past and Present, 2014-2018 and recently co-edited with Simon Coleman a special themed issue of the journal Religion (Vol 49, Issue 1, 2019) ‘Religion in Cathedrals: Pilgrimage, Heritage, Adjacency, and the Politics of Replication in Northern Europe.’

Professor Siv Ellen Kraft is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and

Theology at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Her research focuses on indigenous religions and environmental mobilizations, since 2015 with a comparative project called Indigenous Religion(s), Local Grounds, Global Networks (INREL). Her recent publications include “Standing Rock Religion(s): Ceremonies, Social Media and Music Videos” (co-authored with Greg Johnson, Numen, 2018), and the Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s), (coedited with Greg Johnson, Brill, 2017).

Professor Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University

of Oslo. She has a long standing interest in nature, human-animal relations, domestication, food, consumption, materiality and kinship, aquaculture, and STS. She works in Norway and Australia, with a special interest colonization in the Scandinavian Arctic. Professor Lien’s book, Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (UC Press, 2015) has become a touchstone publication for animal studies. Her most recent co-edited book is Domestication Gone Wild; Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations (Duke 2018, with H. Swanson and G.B. Ween).

Conference Schedule Overview Thursday, June 13 3:00 – 3:30

Registration

Official Opening of the Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes Conference 3:30 – 4:00 Welcoming Remarks 4:00 – 5:00

Keynote by Professor Siv Ellen Kraft

6:00 – 7:00

Reception at City Hall

Friday, June 14 9:00 – 10:00 9:00 – 10:00 9:00 – 10:30 10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30 12:30 – 1:00 12:30 – 1:30

Coffee and Tea Registration Concurrent Session 1 Coffee Break Concurrent Session 2 ISSNRC Members Meeting Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00 3:00 – 3:30 3:30 – 5:00 5:30 – 6:30 6:30 – 9:45

Concurrent Session 3 Coffee Break Concurrent Session 4 Keynote by Professor Marianne Lien Reception and Screening Journey of the Universe

Conference Schedule Overview Saturday, June 15 9:00 – 10:30 10:30 – 11:00 10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30 12:30 – 1:30 12:30 – 1:30 1:30 – 3:00 3:00 – 3:30 3:30 – 5:00 5:30 – 6:30 7:00 – 9:00 9:15 – 10:00

Concurrent Session 5 Coffee Break JSRNC Meet and Greet Concurrent Session 6 Lunch Break JSRNC Editorial Board Meeting [closed meeting] Concurrent Session 7 Coffee Break Concurrent Session 8 Keynote by Dr. Marion Bowman Banquet and Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation Screening Testify: Evangelical Christians Facing Climate Change

Sunday, June 16 9:00 – 10:30

Concurrent Session 9

11:00 – 4:30

Excursion and Lunch

Conference Schedule Thursday, June 13 3:00 – 3:30 – Registration (Boole Basement, outside Boole 3) Official Opening of the Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes Conference 3:30 – 4:00 – Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Lidia Guzy, Head of Study of Religions Department

Professor Tim Jensen, President of the International Association for the History of Religions

Professor Mark Peterson, President of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)

Dr. Jenny Butler (Local Conference Organizer)

4:00 – 5:00 – Keynote by Professor Siv Ellen Kraft, “Protecting Mother Earth. Indigenous Religion(s) on Protest Scenes” (Boole 3) Introduction by Dr. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork 6:00 – 7:00 – Reception at Lord Mayor’s Chambers, Cork City Hall Cork City Hall is located on Anglesea Street about 2.2 km from UCC. Map available at www.townmaps.ie/cork.html.

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 9:00 – 10:00 – Coffee and Tea (Floor 2 O’Rahilly Building Social Area, Study of Religions Department) 9:00 – 10:00 – Registration (Floor 2 O’Rahilly Building Social Area, Study of Religions Department) 9:00 – 10:30 – Concurrent Session 1 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Religious Implications in Water Management • Godfrey Hove, “Negotiating Survival: Religion, Water Insecurity and Communal Responses in the Context of Climate Change in Rural Zimbabwe’s Mberengwa District, c.1980 – 2017” • Bradley Johnson, “The Personal Virtues of Saving Water: A Cape Town Case Study” • Adebayo Akinyemi, “Sacred Urbanism: An Ethnography of a Shrinking Sacred Spring in Lagos City” • Harshvardhan Tripathy and Ankur Goswami, “Exploring Religious Environmentalism: A Study of Matri Sadan Organization in Haridwar, India” • Emma Tomalin, Presiding Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Religion and Environmental Resilience in the Anthropocene • Joseph Witt, “Religion and Resilience among Vietnamese-American Communities on the U.S. Gulf ” • Courtney O’Dell-Chaib, “Toxic Inheritance and a Kinship of Remainders” • Mark Douglas, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Religions Traditions in the Anthropocene” • Carolyn Peach Brown, “An Exploration of Resilience Theory and Religion in the Context of Climate Change” • Michael Northcott, Presiding

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G.27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Intersecting Art: Changing Religion, Nature, and Culture Abstract: The panel consists of three presentations - The Selkie: figuring, an essay, Water Stories: culture, religion and everyday life viewed through a liquid lens, and Animism, Thin Places, and Porous Margins: a heterodox dialogue - and addresses the intersecting of art with, and its role in, changing ‘religion’, ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ as currently understood. The presentations argue for, and seek to demonstrate, the value of heterodox exchanges that enact the increasingly necessary intersection of creative, spiritual, socio-political and environmental concerns. Each in its own way offers an arts-animated exposition that embody a radical mobility of perspective and understanding. Collectively, they aim to demonstrate the value of exceeding academic conceptions of interdisciplinarity, given that this is ultimately still predicated on the monotheistic presuppositions that the Enlightenment inherited from the Religions of the Book and, as such, incompatible with the new pluriverse in which we must now think and act. Speakers: • Iain Biggs and Erin Kavanagh, “The Selkie: Figuring, an Essay” • Luci Gorell Barnes, “Water Stories: Culture, Religion and Everyday Life Viewed Through a Liquid Lens” • Ciara Healy-Musson and Iain Biggs, “Animism, Thin Places, and Porous Margins: A Heterodox Dialogue”

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break (O’Rahilly Building Floor 2 Social Area, Study of Religions Department) 11:00 – 12:30 – Concurrent Session 2 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Environmental Ethics • Tim Dunn, “Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood as a Metaphor for Global Warming” • Lisa Sideris, “The Ethics of De-Extinction: Wonder as a Resource and Moral Corrective” • David Krantz, “Navigating Spiritual Depths: The Development of an Interfaith Ocean Ethic” • Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Presiding

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) Panel B (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Holy Wells Healing Waters Pilgrimage • Jeane Peracullo, “The Lady of the Lake: Exploring Religion as Vulnerable Poetics of Space” • Wojciech Bedynski, “Holy Trees and Wells in the Cultural Landscape of Marian Sanctuaries in Poland” • Celeste Ray, “Remembering and Forgetting Local Ecological Knowledge at Ireland’s Holy Wells” • Marlene Erschbamer, “Cultural and religious significance of hot springs in Buddhist influenced societies in the Himalayas” • Sarah Pike, Presiding Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G.27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change is a threat to the entire planet. Indigenous peoples, however, are uniquely threatened due to a variety of circumstances: location, socio-economic factors, and loss of cultural and economic resources. At the same time, such peoples have been at the forefront of pioneering mitigation and adaptation strategies. Among the threats to indigenous peoples are sea-level rise, saltwater inundation of coastal freshwater wetlands, extreme erosion, rising instream temperatures, extreme and more frequent droughts, damage to sacred sites, and loss of cultural and economic resources. In Louisiana, Alaska, and the island states of the Pacific, indigenous peoples have become the first climate refugees. Yet, as noted above, tribes have found coping strategies. This panel will examine the impact of climate change on indigenous peoples across the globe, with special focus on North America, and their strategies for both physical and cultural survival. Speakers: • Jace Weaver, “Indigenous Peoples as the First Climate Refugees” • Gina Richard, “Native Food Sovereignty 911: Sustainable Food Sources in an Era of Climate Change” • Padraig Kirwan, “Climate Change and Indigenous Activism” • Laura Weaver, Presiding

12:30 – 1:00 – ISSRNC Members Meeting (Boole 4) 12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch Break

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) 1:30 – 3:00 – Concurrent Session 3 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Unsettling Narratives of Climate Change: The Poetic, Imaginary, and Spirit of Living & Dying Together Abstract: We explore unsettling narratives that offer poetry, memoir, and spirit as compelling perspectives through which to read living and dying in the time of climate change. Through the lens of religious naturalism, White explores the work of nature poets who conceptualize human agency in terms of biorelationality. This “more-than-human” aesthetic suggests an ethics of possibility. Liatsos employs the metaphor of social ecology to read two types of personal narratives, motherhood and terminal illness memoirs, each marked by radical relationality. Applying insights from these liminal ontologies, she queries catastrophic repercussions in the social ecology of the anthropocene. Keller argues that if we imagine “the spirit of climate change,” we restore the genius of Indigenous insights on matter’s animated nature, wherein ceremony grounds collective action as the spirit takes hold. Each offers new ways of imagining agency and materiality as relational arts in the time of climate change. Speakers: • Carol White, “Disruptions, Ruptures, Reformulations: The Anthropocene Paradox and A Poetics of Nature” • Yianna Liatsos, “Narrative Subjectivity and Liminal Agency: Reading the Social Ecologically” • Mary Keller, “The Spirit of Climate Change” Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Resources: Oil and Water • Evan Berry, “The ‘Resource Curse’ and Other Modern Mythologies” • Victoria Machado, “Water is Life: Sacred Springs of Florida” • Elizabeth Allison, “Peak to Paddy: An Indigenous Integrated Water Management System in the Himalayas, Based on Spiritual Values” • Susannah Crockford, “A Flood of Waters on the Earth: Discourses of Climate Change among Coastal Communities in South-East Louisiana” • Robin Veldman, Presiding

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Pedagogy, Contemplation, and Engagement • Lucas Johnston, “Teaching the Landscape: Waterways, Lifeways and Climate Solutions” • Sarah Robinson-Bertoni, “Climate Reality, Civic Engagement, and Religious Responses” • Mark Silk, “Organizing a Coalition of Religious Leaders and Climate Scientists” • Mark Hathaway, “Engaging in Outdoor Meditative Practices to Facilitate a Shift towards Ecological Consciousness” • Tim Jensen, Presiding Panel D (O’Rahilly Building Room 203) Landscapes and Waterscapes • Julián García Labrador, “Sacred Landscapes in Ecuadorian Upper Amazon. The hybrid aesthetic ecology of Secoya People” • Margarita Dadykina, “Russian Ortodox Monasteries and Water Environment in 14-16th Centuries” • Uttam Lal, “Landscape of Yaks and their Socio-religious Terrain in the Sikkim Himalaya” • Claudette Soumbane Diatta, “Waterscapes of the Ziguinchor Region in Senegal: Representations and Traditional Management Systems” • Sarah Nahar, Presiding

3:00 – 3:30 – Coffee Break (O’Rahilly Building Floor 2 Social Area, Study of Religions Department)

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) 3:30 – 5:00 – Concurrent Session 4 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Green Religions and Spiritual Ecologists: Empirical Insights from the Current Field of Sustainability and Religion Abstract: Taken in its wider assumption, ecology can be traced back to the romantic criticism of industrialisation and the longing for “nature” as a wild, mysterious and “reenchanted” entity. In this sense, ecology contained an explicit reference to religion. The discussion raised by Lynn White’s famous argument incited a growing concern within Christian Churches and other world religious institutions about ecological questions in Northern and Southern regions. In the same manner, contemporary spirituality movements display a variety of articulations with current environmental sciences, as well as with broader religious organizations and theological views. The current socioanthropological dynamics and entanglement between these actors as well with secular ones has yet received little consideration. This panel invites papers describing and reflecting on developments in the field of religion and sustainability, considering that context matters as well as empirical grounding. Speakers: • Christophe Monnot, Salomé Okoekpen and Irene Becci, “Green Religions and Spiritual Ecologists: Current Developments in the Field of Ecology and Religion” • Jens Köhrse and Julia Blanc, “Greening Processes among Religious Organizations : Implementations at the Local Level” • Jiska Gojowczyk, “The Greening of the Jesuit ‘Ateneos’ in the Philippines” • Carrie B. Dohe, “Religions Saving Nature Together? Urban Interreligious Cooperation on Nature Conservation in Germany” • Alexandre Grandjean, “Dark Green Agronomies and the ‘Spiritualization’ of Agroecology: The Case of ‘Holistic’ Wine-crafting in Switzerland” • Julia Blanc, Responding • Jiska Gojowczyk, Presiding

Conference Schedule Friday, June 14 (continued) Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Indigenous Responses and Resistance • Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, “Coast Salish Ceremonies of Protest: Indigenous Water Protectors on the Salish Sea” • Moira Marquis, “Our Fluid Natures: Afrofuturism, Mami Wata and Water Spirit Myths” • Anita Carrasco, “The Social Life of Water in the Andes: The Stories of Turi and Toconce” • Charisma K. Lepcha, “Interplay of Indigenous Religion, Dammed Rivers and Homegrown Environmentalism Among Lepchas of Sikkim” • Andrea McComb Sanchez, “Praying With Rain” • Jace Weaver, Presiding Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G.27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Apocalypse: Narrative and Culture • Robert Boschman, “In the Ground and On the Waters: The Weird Legacies of Uranium City, Canada” • Sarah McFarland Taylor, “No Planet B v. Disposable Planet: Self-Fulfilling Technocratic Apocalyptic Prophecies in the Marketing of Mars Colonization” • Benjamin Stewart, “Little Apocalypse: How Green Funeral Practitioners Reconfigure the Iconography of Climate Catastrophe” • Victor Morales, “The Controlling Narratives of Climate Change” • Donovan Schaefer, Presiding

5:30 – 6:30 – Keynote by Professor Marianne Lien, “Interruptions: Colonising Practices and Other-than-human Resistance” (Boole 3)

Introduction by Professor Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico

6:30 – 9:45 – Reception (Aula Maxima) Screening Journey of the Universe (Aula Maxima)

Presiding: Dr. Evan Berry, American University

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 9:00 – 10:30 – Concurrent Session 5 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Art, Myth, and Metaphor • Frederique Penot, “Tales from the Green Shores: A Proposed Method for the Collection, Classification, Analysis and Sharing of Irish Surflore Narratives: A Folkloristic Approach” • Junfu Wong, “Responding to Drought: Shamanist Mythical Provenance of Rain Ritual in China” • Ben Bridges, “The Pachamama and Eucalyptus Dialectic: Religious Response to Invasive Species in Southern Peru” • Graham St John, “Blank Canvas: The Black Rock Playa and Cultivating Ephemerality at Burning Man” • Robert Boschman, Presiding Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Blood in the Water: Toxic Water, Toxic Bodies Abstract: The papers in this session deal with intersections of race, religion, environmental history, environmental justice, colonialism, gender based violence, globalization, and biomorality with particular attention to the ways in which these topics have related the toxification of water systems and thus of the bodies of particularly marginalized persons. Nodding to Christopher Carter’s argument that there is blood in the soil of US environmentalism, our papers suggest that globally there is blood in our streams, our municipal pipes, our swamps, lakes, oceans. These papers will pay attention to the particularities of place-based water problems and solutions, eschewing (though attentive to) Western, capitalistic, and white approaches to water in both U.S. and South Asian contexts. Speakers: • Georgina Drew, “Drinking Toxic Waters in ‘God’s Country’: Quality Politics and Urban Development in Kochi, India” • Patrick Kelly, “Erosion on the Border: International Relations via Racist Engineering on the Rio Grande” • Sarah O’Brien, “Poisoning the Public Through Privatization: The Impact of Globalization on Nepalese Urban Waterways” • Dawrell Rich, “From Sacred Rivers to Lead Waters: When Waters Are No Longer A Source of Healing in Flint, Michigan” • Laurel Kearns, Presiding and responding

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Roundtable – Environmental Activism in a Time of Despair: A Counterpoint Conversation Abstract: In the midst of what is called the 6th extinction, and with pessimistic expectations when it comes to overpopulation and future life on the planet, being an environmentalist is different than 30 years ago. The problems of globalization and the “return” to nationalisms and parochialisms only exacerbate these problems. How do people engaged in environmental action cope with such a situation? This event provides a platform for discussing this a topic with representatives from various groups that are engaged in environmental activities and/or who take seriously the multiple critiques of critical theories. While people may share common goals, there can still be clashing values when it comes to expectation, interpretation, and action. In a roundtable conversation, followed by an open discussion with the audience, we want to hear from activists, artists, and scholars about how they respond to the accelerating loss of species and the ecological disaster that we’re in. Speakers: • Whitney Bauman • Kocku von Stuckrad • Marion Grau • Susannah Crockford • Lorna Gold • Jacob Erickson

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break (O’Rahilly Building Floor 2 Social Area, Study of Religions Department) 10:30 – 11:00 – JSRNC Meet and Greet (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) 11:00 – 12:30 – Concurrent Session 6 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Water, Conflict, and the Religious Roots of Resolution: Four Cases in the United States Abstract: Conflicts over water, whether over individual access or broader debates about best use, are affecting communities all over the world. This panel takes four examples from the United States to examine how water conflict is playing out there and what role religious resources may have in the future of such conflicts. We will look at the origins of the term “environmental racism” in Black theology, a tribal nation in northwest California fighting to restore its sovereignty over the Klamath River, a fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico redefining its self-understanding through water conflict, and at the politics of environmental restoration in the fight over Hetch Hetchy Valley. Bringing these cases together will illuminate the role of religion in resolving environmental conflict in the United States. (continued on page 21) 20

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Speakers: • Dana Lloyd, “‘She is Our Bloodline’: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Klamath River” • Alda Balthrop-Lewis, “Ecological Grief During Fishery Collapse: A Case from the Gulf Coast” • Vincent Lloyd, “‘Prevent the Flood’: Prison, Race, and Nature in Benjamin Chavis’s Water Psalms” • Russel Powell, Presiding Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Ecology and Gender Working Group: Gender, Nature, Religion: Changing Cultures and Water/Landscapes Abstract: Women’s and men’s experiences of climate change are likely to differ from each other due to the fact that all aspects of their lives are gendered. This panel brings together four papers that each address different elements of the relationship between gender, nature, and religion. The first two papers focus on ‘waterscapes’ and the second two papers on ‘landscapes.’ The panel addresses the following broad questions: In what ways does gender impact how women approach climate justice and food security differently than men in terms of styles of activism and spiritual practice? How are women transforming their religious traditions in response to climate change and shifting livelihoods and what are the implications of this? How has human interaction with water and the land been gendered and what are the implications of this for women’s livelihoods, wellbeing, and spirituality? Speakers: • Amanda Nichols, “Hope Spots for Our Blue Heart: An In-depth Study of the Lifework of Sylvia Earle and the Gendered Dynamics of Climate Weirding” • Tom Berendt, “Blue Blooded Women: A Gendered Analysis of Water-based Veneration” • Emma Tomalin, “Sustainable Development for Pastoralist Women in India: Heritage, Dignity and Adaptations in Times of Rapid Change” • Elaine Nogueira-Godsey and Kelsey Ryan-Simkins, “Tangible Actions Toward Solidarity: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Women’s Participation in Food Justice” • Sarah Robinson-Bertoni, Presiding

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) What does nature love have to do with care for the planet? Abstract: The peoples around the Baltic Sea are known to be nature lovers. In fact, for many, this nature love goes as far as to amount to a form of spirituality, which in recent decades has been on the rise while traditional religion has been in sharp decline. But how does this deep adoration for nature translate into action in its defense? For the last two years, we have conducted ethnographic research in the forests of Sweden and Estonia, and on the beaches of Denmark, gathering data on people’s personal relationships with nature. Now, we are entering the next phase, where we look at how personal attitudes and experiences affect social and political thinking and behavior. We suggest a session in the form of a panel discussion where each presenter is given maximum 15 minutes for their individual paper, which leaves room for a lively discussion. Speakers: • Cecilie Rubow, “Ethical Fault Lines Between Nature Romanticism and Climate Activism” • David Thurfjell, “Imaginary Forests – And Real: On the Relation Between Nature Romanticism and Environmental Engagement” • Henrik Ohlsson, “Selfhood, Awareness, and Action: Forest Therapy on the Junction Between Therapy Culture and Deep Ecology” • Respondent: David Thurfjell

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch Break 12:30 – 1:30 – JSRNC Editorial Board Meeting [Closed Meeting] (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room)

1:30 – 3:00 – Concurrent Session 7

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Religion and Extinction (Lightning Talks) Abstract: Biologists have called the current “sixth mass extinction” an event of “biological annihilation” and a “frightening assault on the foundations of human civilisation” (PNAS 2017). What are religious traditions, practices and doctrines making of it? Theologians and religious studies scholars have considered the specifically religious perspective on the ethics of species loss within the fields of eco-theology and religion and environmental ethics, but rarely have they considered the specific implications of the phenomenon of mass extinction to religious and theological perspectives. For instance, how does it challenge, implicate, and influence beliefs about the future of humanity, death and the afterlife, the integrity of creation, or the relationship between human and nonhuman life? This panel marks the first public presentation of findings of a new international network Religion and Extinction (funded by AHRC 2018-20). This panel will present findings the network’s research and by pitching short, crystallised arguments or problems from our chapters, seeking critical questions from the ISSRNC community. Discussion on these snapshots will feed into our second session (Concurrent Session 8, Panel A). Speakers: • James Hatley, “Salmon Midrash: Creation and Decreation in the midst of Extinction” • Richard Irvine, “Deep Time and the Horror of the Ruin” • Willis Jenkins, “Loving Swarms: Religious Ethics Amidst Mass Extinction” • Jeremy Kidwell, “Extinction & Religion: Disappearance, Reappearance, and Novel Productions” • Timothy B. Leduc, “Re-Planting a Tree of Peace: Ancestral Responses to Uprooted Relations” • Kate Rigby, “Oceanic Extinctions and the Dread of the Deep” • Lisa Sideris, “De-Extinction and the Ethics of Inevitability” • Stefan Skrimshire, “Leaving Home: Extinction and Migration as figures of Exile and Exodus” Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Contemporary Pagan Cosmologies • Jenny Butler, “‘To the Waters and the Wild’: The Significance of Water in Contemporary Irish Pagan Cosmology and Practice” • Barbara Jane Davy, “Weird Ecology: Offerings from the Well of Wyrd” • Erika De Vivo, “‘…But Nature remains’: Narratives of resilience at the Sami shamanic festival Isogaisa” • Jean Chamel, “From Rights of Rivers to Water Harmony : Rights of Nature Movement, Rituality and Ecospirituality” • Sarah Pike, Presiding

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building Room 203) Social Texts of Climate Skepticism • Frances Flannery, “A Covenantal Understanding of Human Impact on the Weather and Animals” • Robin Veldman, “James Watt, Embattled Evangelical? How the New Right-Christian Right Alliance Shaped American Evangelical Christians’ Environmental Views” • Donovan Schaefer, “From Creationism to Climate Change Denial: An Affective Approach to Science Skepticism” • S. Jonathon O’Donnell, “Oceanic Calamity and Chastisement in Contemporary American Demonology” • Michael Northcott, Presiding Panel D (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Reconceptualizing Water as Ground • Mark Peterson, “It’s All Wet: Thales Watering the Roots of a New Environmentalism.” • Laurel Kearns, “Is There a Growing ‘Blue Wave’ of Religious Environmental Activism in the US?” • Caelyn Adams, “It’s not Just Water: A Discussion on Water-Focused Contemplative Ecology” • Jaana Kouri, “Environmental Heritage and Experience Based Knowledge of Water” • Becky Copeland, Presiding

3:00 – 3:30 – Coffee Break (O’Rahilly Building Floor 2 Social Area, Study of Religions Department) 3:30 – 5:00 – Concurrent Session 8

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel A (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Questioning Extinction, Questioning Religion (Roundtable debate) Abstract: In this roundtable discussion, members of the Religion and Extinction Network will pose a series of provocations to each other that have arisen in the course of our project. In addition to researching original theses on diverse topics, the project has generated novel questions about this new field, that we want to test here: on the very meaning and relevance – in the age of extinctions - of the category “religion” and its western inheritance; on questioning the dominant frameworks for thinking about extinction such as mourning, grief, loss, death life, kinship, the future, and transformation, in the light of the influence of religion. Input from the wider audience will be invited to help us address these provocations and set an agenda for future research on this crucial topic. Speakers: See Concurrent Session 7, Panel A Panel B (O’Rahilly Building Room 203) Anthropological Understandings of Religion, Environment and Climate Change in the UK Abstract: This panel seeks to explore anthropological approaches to religion, belief, and the environment in the context of climate change. A sense of place and location is central to the case studies that comprise the panel papers. The participants combine literary research with first-hand participative fieldwork and interviews. The result is three papers that are both original and nuanced, showing how old practices and ideas are being reshaped in the present to respond to the opportunities, dangers and challenges posed by climate change. The panel is sponsored by the Afterlife Research Centre and Paranthropology, and seeks to push the boundaries of ethnographic research on religion both methodologically and ontologically, being open to the transpersonal, and to relationships with ‘other than human’ beings in the research environment. Speakers: •

Jack Hunter, “Permaculture, Extraordinary Experience and Regenerative Energy”

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Tamzin Powell, “An Anthropological Exploration of Sacred Rites, Water and Landscape for the Cunning Folk of the Welsh Borders”

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Fiona Bowie, “Hafren/Severn: From River Goddess to Ecological Threat”

Conference Schedule Saturday, June 15 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building Room G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Fueling and Resisting Petroculture: Christianity and Climate Change Abstract: More than a mere aspect of society, petroculture designates the ways fossil fuels have shaped even the most basic concepts and values on which society is based: freedom, democracy, individualism, etc. As a quickly growing edge of the environmental humanities, leading voices in petroculture studies emphasize that moving beyond a petroleum based society will require more than technological and scientific answers. Critical analysis and reimagining of modern values, aesthetics, and philosophical concepts is also necessary. In spite of insightful analyses of modern Western petroculture, religious concepts and the ways they have influenced, contributed to, and been shaped by petroculture remains inadequately addressed. This panel will explore resonance between and mutual imbrication of Christian and petroculture social imaginaries. In both critical analyses and constructive proposals, panelists will pay particular attention to the intersection of Christian and petrocultures with gender, sexuality, class, ritual, symbols, race, and colonialism. Speakers: • Hilda Koster, “Fractured Lands/Fractured Bodies: Petroculture and Violence against Native Women in the Dakotas (US)” • Jan Pranger, “Petrocultures, Land, and Race in Christian Settler Colonialism in the Northern Plains” • Terra Schwerin Rowe, “Of Modern Extraction: Fossil Fuels, Gender and Religion” • Marion Grau, “Anointed with Oil: Norway between Petromania and Sustainability” • Jake Erickson, “On the Perpetual Desire for Oil: Apophatic Excess, Toxic Creativity, and a Spirituality of Prospective Failure” • Celia Deane-Drummond, Presiding

5:30 – 6:30 – Keynote by Dr. Marion Bowman, “Sacrality, Swimming Pools and Central Heating: The Changing Cultures and Contexts of Bath’s Hot Springs” (Boole 3)

Introduction by Dr. Jenny Butler, University College Cork

7:00 – 9:00 – Banquet and Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation (Devere Hall, Áras na

Mac Léinn/Student Centre)

9:15 – 10:00 – Screening Testify: Evangelical Christians Facing Climate Change (Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn/Student Centre) 26

Anthropologist Dr. Barry Lyons will present clips from his documentary film project exploring how evangelical Christians from the global north and south view climate change. The presentation will be followed by a short Q&A session.

Conference Schedule Sunday, June 16 9:00 – 10:30 – Concurrent Session 9 Panel A (O’Rahilly Building Room G27A – CACSSS Seminar Room) Rethinking the Environmental Crisis: Textual and Historical Approaches • Matthew Hartman, “The Historical Relations of Our Ecological Crisis: Theology, Colonialism, and Capitalism’s Logics” • Lady Penaloza-Farfan, “A Model of Spirituality in the Development that Integrates Ancestral South American Wisdom (Suma Kausay) with the New Spirituality of Pope Francis’ Letter (Laudato Si): The Case of an Indigenous Community in Colombia” • Becky Copeland, “Rematerializing Visions: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Changing Environments” • Jurij Dobravec, “To Mitigate or to Adapt? Greening as Reflects in Fairy-tales and Legends. Example of St. Christopher’s Walking-stick” • Whitney Bauman, Presiding Panel B (O’Rahilly Building G27B – Mary Ryan Meeting Room) Rivers • Luke Devlin, “Praying Like a River: Psychofluviology and Hagiotoponyms in the Clyde Waterscape” • Marie Rowley-Brooke, “‘The problem of our origins is the origin of our problems’ (Midson: 2018)” • Adebayo Akinyemi, “Interrogating ‘Ara-Omo’ Identity Construction and the Social Agency of Sacred Stream in Lagos Communities” • Neelam Kerketta, “Rethinking Sustainability of Holy Rivers of India: Case Studies of Ganges, Godavari and Narmada” • Georgina Drew, Presiding

Conference Schedule Sunday, June 16 (continued) Panel C (O’Rahilly Building Room 201) Negotiating Religious Participation in Environmental Activism • Victor Lam, “Interconnectedness, Reconciliation and Justice: Construction and Tailoring the Content of Value-based Messaging of Climate Change by Religious Environmental Organizations in the TransMountain Pipeline Expansion Resistance, in Vancouver, Canada” • Randolph Haluza-DeLay, “The Cosmopolitics of Faith-Based Climate Justice Activism at the UNFCCC” • Can Dalyan, “The Secular Belief: Plant Conservation as Homage to Mustafa Kemal’s Legacy in Turkey” • Dominic Wilkins, “Catholic Environmental Thought in the Diocese of Syracuse, NY” • Derk Harmannij, “Environmentally Concerned Christian Working Within Secular Environmental Groups” • Rebecca Kneale Gould, Presiding

11:00 – 4:30 – Excursion and Lunch Those attending the excursion should plan to leave University College Cork at 11:00 am to go to Ardmore in County Waterford, about an hour’s drive. We will gather together following the panels in the foyer of the O’Rahilly Building at 10:45 am and walk to the coach. We will have lunch at Ardmore Gallery and Tearooms, followed by a guided tour in Ardmore. We will depart Ardmore at 3:30 pm, arriving in Cork around 4:30 pm. The final drop-off point will be University College Cork. Excursion The trip will be to Ardmore, a seaside village in County Waterford. Ardmore is the anglicized name from the Irish language, Aird Mhór, meaning ‘Great Height’. The tour, which will be led by Liam Suipéil, will address the history and local culture of the place, with attention to Christian heritage, as it is one of the oldest Christian settlements in Ireland, as well as folk religious practices. The guide is a native speaker of Irish (Gaelic) and can explain the meanings and significance of place names. You will see St. Declan’s stone, the ruined church, a holy well, and a round tower (said to be one of the last ones built). St. Declan is said to have founded a monastic settlement in Ardmore circa 416 CE and to have converted the local population of the Déisi (or Decies, ancient clan of Ireland) before the arrival of St. Patrick which is recorded as 432 CE. St. Declan, in his wish for greater seclusion, constructed a little cell in the place where the ruined church now stands, beside the holy well in which legends tell of the saint baptizing the locals. The well and the stone have been the focus of a ‘pattern day’ or local pilgrimage on the saint’s feast day of July 24th or nearest Sunday.

Conference Schedule Online Panels The online portion of the conference consists of video presentations that can be viewed and discussed anytime June 6-20. During this time, viewers can take part in Q&A sessions for each panel, which are similar to online forums, by posting and responding to written questions and comments. Because comments can be made at any time in any time zone, participants from across the globe can equally take part in the conference. All ISSRNC members are invited to visit the ISSRNC website to find the online conference page, where they can view and discuss the presentations. You can join the conversation online at: tinyurl.com/cork2019. Panel A Climate Change and Communities – Resistance and Interpretation • Kristin Pomykala and rekumani, “Rights of Nature within the Ho-Chunk Nation, the People of the Sacred Voice: Listening Deeply for a Decolonizing Methodology” • Frank Boudinot, “Mythmaking of Paleoclimate in the Anthropocene” • Dianne Quigley, “Promoting Ethical Treatment of Land-based Cultural and Spiritual Practices and Beliefs in Climate Change Research: Survey Findings from Field Researchers” Panel B Water: Security, Healing, and Governance • Monica Hortegas, “Water and Self in Zen Poetry” • Maria Nita, “‘Healing Waters’ in Bath, Glastonbury and Techirghiol: Belonging, Reclamation and Environmentalism” “Healing waters ‘come back to earth”: the biosemiotics, relationality, commercialization and re-branding of the sacred”

About Conference Partners University College Cork University College Cork is Ireland’s first 5 Star University. It is an award-winning institution with a history of independent thinking stretching back over 170 years. UCC is proud to be ranked in the top 2% of universities in the world. Set on 42 acres of wooded ground, only a 10-minute walk from Cork City Centre, the university was established in 1845 after a long campaign for a higher education institution in the province of Munster. The institution opened its gates to just 115 students in 1849 and now has a student population of over 21,000. Since the themes of our conference relates to the environment, climate change, water and sustainability, it may be of interest to delegates to know about UCC Green Campus. University College Cork was the first institution outside of North America to achieve a gold star rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). UCC joined Princeton, Cornell and UC Berkeley in receiving the highest standard, Gold ‘Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System’ (STARS) for excellence in sustainability. In 2007, UCC students instigated a pilot Green Campus program, with the help of An Taisce, which would see the university become the first in the world to be awarded a Green Flag from the Foundation for Environmental Education. UCC renewed its Green Flag in 2013 and 2016. In 2018, UCC became the first university in Europe to be awarded a Gold Star from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The UCC campus has been blazing a sustainability trail for over 10 years to develop and achieve world-class Green Campus initiatives. UCC was the world’s first university to achieve ISO50001 for Energy Management and has signed the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment. Other proactive environmental initiatives include the Green Library campaign, launching of Ireland’s first single-use disposable free café, the introduction of a pollinator strategy and several beehives on campus, a KSG Catering farm to fork program, and many other sustainability initiatives. UCC was also the first Higher Education Institution in Ireland to achieve its 2020 public sector energy efficiency targets, three years ahead of schedule. In relation to sustainability and the ISSRNC Cork conference, delegates are advised to bring their own reusable drinks container as it can be refilled at water fountains in the conference venues - O’Rahilly Building and the Boole Basement. Kylemore, the campus catering service, has taken the initiative to phase out the use of plastic water bottles and they are being removed from conferencing and other events over the summer. There are also efforts to minimize the amount of disposables used in catering. The campus has adequate recycling facilities. In order to be environmentally friendly, delegates will be provided with their conference pack in a reusable canvas bag. There will be a mini-program in your conference pack, with a basic schedule, but the abstracts and other information are contained only in this PDF document – please download this PDF to your device for reference. As you will have seen when you registered, the ISSRNC provided an option to make a donation where people are able to do so in order to offset their carbon footprint in travelling to Cork for this conference. The organizing team has also made their best efforts to incorporate online sessions that allow virtual participation. We have tried, where possible, to hold panels in rooms with natural daylight and to encourage people to avail of campus accommodation so that there is less transport being used to get to the venue. 30

About Conference Partners The Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre A co-sponsor of the conference is the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC), which is under the auspices of the Study of Religions Department at UCC. The centre was founded and is co-directed by Dr. Lidia Guzy and Dr. James Kapaló. MEWSC is an interdisciplinary research centre that has been established to promote the study of contemporary endangered cultures, religions, worldviews, religious cultures, and minority religions. Cultural expressions – both tangible and intangible – and the worldviews of marginalised, endangered and persecuted peoples, social groups and indigenous communities are the focus of MEWSC. It is the aim of this centre to encourage dialogue and exchange between researchers with an interest in diverse parts of the world who can bring varied perspectives on endangered or marginalised worldviews, cultural expressions and religious cultures. An important aspect of the mission of the centre is to encourage counter-hegemonial perspectives on peripheral cultural and religious voices and promote the incorporation of such perspectives into mainstream research and teaching. As an academic community the centre aims to promote engaged and philanthropic scholarship for an inclusive, innovative, integrative and reflective global society. It interlinks with transnational agencies such as UNESCO, The Council of Europe and the United Nations in order to support emancipatory claims of threatened communities.

International Association for the History of Religions The International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) is a worldwide body of national and regional member and affiliate associations and societies dedicated to the academic study of religion. The IAHR seeks to promote the activities of all scholars, member and affiliate associations and societies contributing to the historical, social, and comparative study of religion. As such, the IAHR is the preeminent international forum for the critical, analytical and cross-cultural study of religion, past and present. The IAHR is not a forum for confessional, apologetical, or other similar concerns. The IAHR is a member of the Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines/ The International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH) under the auspices of UNESCO. The IAHR was founded in 1950 at the 7th international congress of the history of religions in Amsterdam. Since then, the IAHR has grown to 42 national and 6 regional member associations and societies as well as 4 affiliated societies, reflecting the international and global character and scope of the association. The IAHR publishes the journal NUMEN in association with Brill, the IAHR Bulletin, the IAHR e-Bulletin Supplements, ‘The Study of Religion in a Global Context – an IAHR Book Series’ in association with Equinox Publishing. The IAHR holds world congresses every five years. The next (the XXII) Quinquennial Congress will be held in 2020 in Otago, New Zealand. The IAHR also sponsors regional and special conferences during the quinquennial periods and carries on a tradition of holding its congresses and conferences in as many parts of the world as possible. This serves to support the work of IAHR affiliates, and to encourage international collaboration and intercultural exchange between scholars. The ISSRNC Cork conference ‘Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes’ is an IAHR Special Conference and it is the first time an IAHR Special Conference has been held in Ireland.

ISSRNC Board of Directors Mark Peterson, President Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Milwaukee (USA) Evan Berry, President-Elect Associate Professor, American University (USA) Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Treasurer Assistant Professor of Theology, Ecology and Race, Methodist Theological School in Ohio (USA) Amanda Baugh, Secretary Associate Professor of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge (USA) Jenny Butler, Member-at-Large Lecturer, University College Cork (Ireland) Georgina Drew, Member-at-Large Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide (Australia) Dan Smyer Yu, Member-at-Large Professor, Yunnan Minzu University (China) Michael Northcott, Member-at-Large Professor of Religion and Ecology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) Lisa Sideris, Member-at-Large Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington (USA) Robin Veldman, Member-at-Large Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas A&M University (USA) Norah Elmagraby, Student Representative PhD Candidate, Emory University (USA) Kelsey Ryan-Simkins, Student Representative & Awards Committee PhD Student, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University (USA) Sarah Pike, Past President (2015-2018) Professor of Religious Studies, California State University, Chico (USA)

ISSRNC Mission & Prospects The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) is an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars, founded in 2006, who are engaged in critical inquiry into the relationships among human beings, their diverse cultures and environments, and their religious beliefs and practices. The ISSRNC facilitates scholarly collaboration and research and disseminates research findings through workshops, lectures, conferences and its affiliated, peer reviewed, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, which has been published quarterly since 2007. In the coming years, the Society intends to increase its influence through a sophisticated social media strategy including the dissemination of research through online video productions. The ISSRNC was organized and is governed through democratic processes. Our Board of Directors cordially invites all individuals interested in the scholarly investigation of religion, nature, and culture to join and to participate in ISSRNC activities. Members not only enjoy a growing number of benefits, including the Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journal; they also increase the profile and strength of this important and growing scholarly field and help create further opportunities for religion and nature scholars. After its inception in 2006 the society grew steadily, reaching 215 members by the end of 2008. Although annual membership declined after that due to the global economic crisis, society numbers are approaching our previous high point. We urge conference participants and current members to strengthen the ISSRNC by renewing their memberships, donating to the Society when possible, submitting their scholarly work for consideration by the reviewers and editors of the JSRNC, and in other creative ways by offering talents that could advance the mission of the Society. The ISSRNC is recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (c)(3) charitable/educational organization.

ISSRNC’s Working Groups The Working Groups are an ongoing project to provide greater opportunities for community and scholarly engagement—to continue all those “conference conversations” you started during or between sessions. The website includes forums for each group to nourish and help germinate the ideas that develop from those conversations. The current groups emerged organically during the 2016 Gainesville conference. As new interests arise or, if you and a number of your colleagues have something you’d like to work on together, new groups can easily be added. One result is an opportunity for scholarship and interaction across disciplines that a campus department does not always afford. Another result is the opportunity to showcase your working group’s scholarship at future ISSRNC conferences—we have plans to set aside special times for working groups to present panel discussions of their work. Finally, these groups can be a great opportunity for younger scholars to interact with their senior colleagues. Plus, of course, fun. The current constellation of groups includes: • • • • •

Ecology and Critical Theory Group Teaching Methodologies and Pedagogies in the field of Religion & Ecology Group Ecology and Gender Group Ecology and Philosophy Group Ritual, Religion, and Nature Group

One of the greatest strengths of the ISSRNC is the opportunity to be inspired by colleagues outside your own discipline area—to discover the sparks that our interdisciplinary interactions create. We hope these working groups can inspire, and add fire to, your research and writing. The Ecology and Gender Group will present their current projects on Saturday from 11:00 - 12:30 in Concurrent Session 6, Panel B. To learn more about these Working Groups and how to get involved, visit the Working Groups page on the ISSRNC website: www.issrnc.org/working-groups.

Conferences 2006-2019 2006

Exploring Religion, Nature, and Culture

In collaboration and with the support of University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

2008

Re-enchantment of Nature Across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics and Metaphysics

In collaboration and with the support of CIGA-UNAM, Morelia, and with Universidad AutĂłnoma de San Luis PotosĂ, Mexico

2009

Religion, Nature and Progress

In collaboration and with the support of University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010

Living on the Edge

In collaboration and with the support of the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

2011

Religion, Nature and Art

Co-sponsored with the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums, Vatican City State

2012

Nature and the Popular Imagination

In collaboration and with the support of Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA

2016

Religion, Science and the Future

In collaboration and with the support of University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

2017

Mountains and Sacred Landscapes

Co-sponsored by the India China Institute, The New School, New York City, USA

2019

Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes

Co-sponsored by the Study of Religion Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Awards and Committees Lifetime Achievement Award The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture’s Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the study of religion, nature, and culture goes to those whose work has a relevance and eloquence that speaks, not just to scholars, but more broadly to the public and to multiple disciplines as well. The contribution can be any medium (e.g., books, films, TV, public speaking), as long as it is based on scholarship about religion and nature. The 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award was selected by vote of the ISSRNC Board of Directors.

Student Paper Award Students presenting at the ISSRNC conferences are invited to submit their conference paper (or a longer version, not to exceed 5,000 words) to be considered for the Award for the Best Student Conference Paper. Submissions are anonymously reviewed by a committee of ISSRNC board members. The winner will receive $500 and be honored at the conference.

Student Paper Award Committee Michael Northcott Emeritus Professor of Ethics, School of Divinity, University of Heidelberg Kelsey Ryan-Simkins – Awards Committee Chair PhD Student in Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University Lisa Sideris Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington (USA) Robin Veldman Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas A&M University

Surveys The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture normally distributes post-conference surveys. We would appreciate your responses to the survey about the Cork conference as this data is valuable for conference planning in the future as well as in gauging interest and changes in our field and wider disciplines. The survey will also contain some questions related to the IAHR and will be shared with the IAHR. The ISSRNC Cork conference is supported by Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, and as a result we have agreed that they can carry out a short survey as part of the remit of its Business Tourism Unit, ‘Meet in Ireland’, among overseas visitors who have travelled to Ireland on business. The Authority have commissioned Ipsos MRBI, one of Ireland’s leading market research and opinion polling companies. During this Cork conference, an Ipsos MRBI representative may request your participation in this research, which would involve completing a short questionnaire online at a time that best suits you after you complete your visit and return home. If you are willing to participate in this study, you will only be required to provide your email address or business card for the survey to be sent to you when you return home. The information gathered as part of this research will only be analyzed in a summarized basis and will assist Fáilte Ireland in its strategic and practical support to develop and sustain Ireland as a high-quality and competitive business destination. Importantly, the contact details you provide to Ipsos MRBI will only be used for the purposes of sending you the online questionnaire. IPSOS MRBI is a member of ESOMAR (The European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research) and adheres to the ESOMAR Code of Conduct. We would appreciate your co-operation with this. An announcement will be made about this during the conference when the Ipsos MRBI representative will be present to answer any questions about the research.

Wi-Fi and Social Media How to Access Wi-Fi Below are the credentials for the guest Wi-Fi for the duration of the ISSRNC Conference: Username: iahr-2019 Password: h3Ugquse At University College Cork, delegates can also connect to the internet via eduroam (Educational Roaming) which is an implementation of an infrastructure which facilitates roaming educational users to gain Internet access at other member sites by authenticating against a server hosted at their own institution. Here is a map of eduroam hotspots in Ireland: www.eduroam.ie/index.php

Social Media for #ISSRNC2019 We encourage you to follow @ISSRNC and @UCC and @UCCDeptReligion. The @ISSRNC account will retweet a selection of posts about the conference found on #ISSRNC2019. For those who want to disclose their Twitter ID, please write your twitter handle in the lower left corner of your name badge during registration. Where known, the twitter ID’s of the featured speakers are listed with their biographies online. Before tweeting a presenter’s ideas, secure permission from the presenter and inquire if they have an “@.” Check in with the presenter to make sure you heard them correctly.

Local Attractions Fairy Lore and Landscapes Project Perhaps of interest to the ISSRNC Cork Conference delegates is the Fairy Lore and Landscapes Exhibition, curated by Dr Jenny Butler, UCC Study of Religions Department, which is at University College Cork’s Boole Library (exhibition space on the ground floor) until 25 JUNE 2019. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Just pop along to University College Cork Library and ask at the desk on the way in and they will open the gate to let you see the exhibition (you don’t need to be a student or have a library card). There are audiovisual clips from Dr. Jenny Butler’s fieldwork in Ireland, Iceland, and Newfoundland and some hidden things to find! You can find out more about the Fairy Lore and Landscapes Project at fairyloreandlandscapes.com.

UCC Visitors’ Centre is in the center of the University

Main Quadrangle and is the centre for information and heritage and historical tours in the University. Audio tours are available for purchase and the centre stocks a large range of UCC official merchandise. You can also purchase reusable water bottles here with the UCC logo on them should you wish to have a souvenir of your ISSRNC Religion/Water/Climate conference participation and visit to UCC!

Museums and Galleries On the campus of University College Cork is The Glucksman Gallery: www.glucksman.org. In Cork city centre, there are: The Crawford Art Gallery: www.crawfordartgallery.ie The Triskel Christchurch Gallery and Arts Centre: triskelartscentre.ie The Butter Museum: thebuttermuseum.com

Events and Other Things to Do For an up-to-date listing of events as well as general things to do and see in Cork, see PureCork (purecork.ie) and People’s Republic of Cork (www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com). 40

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137

138

Park & Ride Bus Stop 8 12

Disabled Parking

28 29

Visitor Parking

140

Bus Route (205, 208, 216, 201)

Bus Stop

Hospital

4-11

Swimming Pool

Catering

Place of Interest

Visitors’ Centre

Vehicle Entrance

Pedestrian Entrance

6 7

8 20

13-14

208

1 2

4 5

29-4

56 57

152

13-28

216

1&22

158

9-12

11-21

161

163

1-4

160

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1-6

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St Fin Barre’s Cathedral 3

City Centre

2-3

Mercy University Hospital

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UCC Building

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182

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Cork City Gaol (Heritage Centre)

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262

146

UCC Campus Map

Environmental Research Institute

WALK

238

237

233

232

227

226

201

223

205

222

FERRY

Donovan’ s Road

207 208

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208

14 1

306 12-27

206

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Building Index:

Aldworth / William Thompson House Áras Na Laoi Áras na Mac Léinn / Student Centre Ardpatrick Ashford Askive Aula Maxima Biosciences Research Institute Bloomfield Terrace Boole Lecture Theatres Boole Library Brighton Villas Brookfield Health Sciences Complex Buildings and Estates Butler Building Carrigbawn Carrigside Castlewhite Apartments Cavanagh Pharmacy Building Civil Engineering Building 54 College Road / Students Union College View Connolly Building Cooperage Copley Street Cork Dental School & Hospital Cork University Hospital Cork University Maternity Hospital Crawford Observatory Crèche Cois Laoi Crossleigh Curraheen Sports Ground Distillery House Elderwood Electrical Engineering Building Environmental Research Institute Fernhurst Ferry Lodge Food Science and Technology Building Gate Lodge (College Road) Gate Lodge (Gaol Bridge) Gate Lodge (Western Road) Geography Building Glenlee Granary Theatre Honan Chapel Iona Kane Building Knocknacool Lancaster Hall Lee Holme Lee Maltings Complex Lee Mills House Lewis Glucksman Gallery Lucan Place Main Quadrangle Main Restaurant Mardyke Arena Mardyke Sports Complex Muskerry Villas North Mall (Enterprise Centre) O’Rahilly Building Perrott Avenue Plant Sciences Glass Houses Pouladuff

H5 E6 G5 G6 H5 H5 F5 D6 E5 F6 F6 D5 C7 F6 H2 H5 F6 E5 E6 F6 G6 G7 J3 J2 map B map B map B map B F6 C6 G5 map B J1 F6 F6 map B H5 D4 E6 G6 F5 G4 G5 E4 J3 G5 G6 E6 G6 K3 G5 K2 J2 G5 D5 F5 F6 C5 C4 J3 H1 G6 G6 G2 map B

Grid

62 61 16 51 62 78 43 23 62 62 74+45 68+55 62 62 62 62

School of Applied Psychology School of Applied Social Studies School of Education School of English School of History School of Geography and Archaeology • The Human Environment Scoil Léinn na Gaeilge / School of Irish Learning School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures School of Music and Theatre School of Sociology and Philosophy School of Asian Studies Study of Religions Classics Politics

Grid

62 09 02 62 62 02 62

No.

Accounting, Finance and Information Systems Centre for Policy Studies Economics Food Business and Development Government Law Management and Marketing

Medicine and Health Brookfield Health Sciences Complex T +353 (0)21 490 1571/1576/1577 medfac@ucc.ie Dental School and Hospital School of Medicine School of Nursing and Midwifery School of Pharmacy School of Clinical Therapies • Occupational Therapy

map B C7 C7 E6 C7

26 13 13 19 13

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Business and Law Room 3.02 O’Rahilly Building 62T +353 (0)21 420 5100 businessandlaw@ucc.ie

H1 H5 G5 G6 G7 G5 J3 G6 G6 G2+J3 H5+D5 G6 G6 G6 G6

Grid

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No.

66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82

Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Ground Floor O’Rahilly Building T +353 (0)21 490 2361/2773 CACSSS@ucc.ie

Colleges:

Reception Centre / Security Roseleigh Safari Sheares House Sheraton Court Silverdale South Bank, Crosses Green St. Kildas St. Vincents Students’ Union Common Room The Laurels Tyndall National Institute Tyrconnell University Hall Victoria Lodge Western Gateway Building Windle Building

Services Accommodation Office Admissions Office Assistive Technology Services Bank Book Shop Careers Service Chaplaincy Crèche Disability Support Services Fees Graduate Studies Office Grants Human Resources International Education Office Language Centre (English as a Foreign Language) Mature Student Office Reception Centre / Security Student Common Room Student Health, Counselling & Development Student IT Services • Boole Basement • 3rd Floor Kane Building • Block A Level 4 Food Science Building

Campus Information: Switch Board +353 (0)21 490 3000

School of Life Sciences • Biochemistry • Microbiology School of Engineering • Civil and Environmental Engineering • Electrical & Electronic Engineering • Process & Chemical Engineering • Microelectronic Engineering School of Food & Nutritional Sciences School of Mathematical Sciences School of Computer Science & Information Technology School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences • Zoology, Ecology & Plant Science • Geology Chemistry Physics

Science, Engineering and Food Science Block E Level 3 Food Science Building T +353 (0)21 490 3075 collegeoffice@sefs.ucc.ie

School of Clinical Therapies • Speech & Hearing Sciences Anatomy Dental Surgery Epidemiology and Public Health General Practice Medicine (Department) Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oral Health and Development Oral Health Services Research Centre Paediatrics and Child Health Pathology Pharmacology and Therapeutics Physiology Psychiatry Radiology Restorative Dentistry and School of Dental Hygiene Surgery C7 F6 map B C7 C6 map B map B map B map B map B map B map B C6 map B map B map B map B

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20 35 39 36 39 81 81 15 15 48 48

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No. 17 56 11 03 03 12 47 30 40 56 56 56 39 67 62 12 66 75 04 10 48 39

www.ucc.ie

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08 39

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13 82 26 13 81 27 28 26 26 27 27 27 81 27 27 26 27 N71

Airport

N27

Campus Map

Visitors’ Centre

54 58 56

No. 56 56 07 29 11 46 03

N28

Places of Interest The Main Quadrangle Stone Corridor and Ogham Stone Collection Aula Maxima Crawford Observatory Boole Library Honan Chapel Áras na Mac Léinn / Student Centre President’s Garden (Adjacent to Main Quadrangle) Lewis Glucksman Gallery Mardyke Arena Visitors’ Centre

West Cork

N28

City Centre 72

No. 03 08 13 54 62 48 52 58 57 57 19 57 61 57 81

N71

Main Campus

Catering Áras na Mac Léinn / Student Centre Bio Café Brookfield Café Café Glucksman Coffee Dock in O’Rahilly Building Kampus Kitchen Lee Maltings Mardyke Arena The Mini The Old College Bar Pharmacy Café Staff Dining Room The Still U.C.Central Western Gate Café

N22

River Lee 36

N20

56 21 12 56

N22

Limerick

Student Records & Examinations Students’ Union UCC PLUS+

Killarney

Map B

Grid F5 F5 F5 F6 F6 G5 G5 G5 G5 C5 F5

Dublin

Grid G5 D6 C7 G5 G6 E6 K2 C5 F6 F6 E6 F6 H1 F6 C6

F5 G6 D5 F5

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