The Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History, and Religion (PASCHR), Inc. in collaboration with the Catanduanes State University is now accepting papers for the 9th PASCHR International Conference on “Narratives and Practices of Meaning-Making: Histories, Cultures, and Religions in the Philippines in their Indo-Pacific contexts” on May 18-20, 2023.
The conference will use a hybrid modality, allowing participants to present and attend either onsite or online.
The 9th International Conference of the PASCHR will accept paper presentations reflective of the whole gamut of the meaning-making enterprise of Filipino communities, distilled into a variety of narrative and practice strategies, such as but not limited to: historical accounts, ethnographic descriptions, linguistic/literary studies that represent assertions and/or contestations of collective identities; and accounts of patently or marginally religious narratives and practices (e.g. the ritualist and ritual-like) that embody worldviews, ideologies, ontologies.
The papers may cover any of the historical periods namely the pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary, or their dynamic interfaces.
Contextualization within the Indo-Pacific sphere is preferred and presentations may be of completed data-based researches, works-in-progress, literature reviews, or of mainly analytical/theoretical expositions. Preference however will be for data-based studies, whether completed or a work-in-progress, and proposals for panel presentation are welcome.
Papers by graduate and undergraduate college students will also be accepted.
As a direct and succinct description of the paper, the abstract must include the broad objective/s addressed, the methodology and the findings and/or basic assertions.
It must have a title of up to 12 words, up to five key words or phrases, and a main body of not more than 200 words in Arial 11 font.
It must be accompanied by a short bio note of the proponent/s in a maximum of 70 words each.
Submissions must be sent to Google Form Link https://forms.gle/tPS6ZH7dAngKZt8o9.
Paper presentors must be members of the PASCHR or the PASR (Philippine Association for the Study of Religion) and membership fee must be paid after acceptance note is received.
Deadline for submission of abstract is on March 31, 2023, with the acceptance note to be sent on April 5-10. The deadline for submission of the full paper is on May 15, 2023.