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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the University of Denver are hosting an online conference this week, and registration is open.
Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality runs Thursday, October 1 through Saturday, October 3, online, on Mountain Daylight Time.
What it's about #
The conference looks at how belief, paranoia, and conspiratorial ways of knowing shape what the call describes as a "cognitive battlespace," where people fight over what counts as true and real. It starts from Foucault's Lectures on the Will to Know and Kristeva's This Incredible Need to Believe, and it puts the religious side of conspiracy thinking up front: faith in hidden powers, moral dualism, apocalyptic expectation, and fights over who gets access to revelation.
The featured speaker is Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm, Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion at Williams College. I just published a long essay on his trilogy, so I'm especially glad he's part of this.
The program draws on religious studies, philosophy, communication, sociology, security studies, psychology, and media studies. If your work sits anywhere near those fields, there's something here for you.
Register #
Register with the Google Form. It's online, so there's no travel to plan, only a time zone to convert. If you have questions about the program, hit reply or write to me.
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