Round table session

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For the first time the the Stony Brook Graduate Music Symposium will include a round table session. We are excited to have an opportunity for everyone to discuss the same reading excerpts, selected in line with this year’s theme. For anyone planning to attend this session the reading list is as follows:

  1. Talal ASAD,  “What Might an Anthropology of Secularism Look Like?”  Chapter 1, pp. 21-66 of ASAD,  Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. [ca. 40 PP.]
  2. Ronald GRIMES, The Craft of Ritual Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Selected Pages from Appendixes.  [20 PP.]
  3. Philip V. BOHLMAN and Jeffers ENGELHARDT, “Resounding Transcendence – An Introduction.” In Bohlman and Engelhardt, eds., Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 1-29. [24 PP.]
  4. Randall STUDSTILL, “Eliade, Phenomenology, and the Sacred.”  Religious Studies,Vol. 36, No. 2 (2000), pp. 177-194. [17 PP.]
  5. Lawrence KRAMER, “Music, Cultural Mixture, and the Aesthetic.” World of Music, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2003),  pp. 11-22. [12 PP.]
  6. “Concluding Discussion.” (Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West) In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere.  Ed. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan Vanantwerpen.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.   [9 PP.]
  7. Pauline TURNER STRONG, “On Theoretical Impurity.”  American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2006), pp. 585-587. [2 PP]

Email sbugradsymposium@gmail.com to be provided with the PDFs.