This year, the Contemplative Studies Unit especially invites proposals addressing the role of different epistemologies relative to Contemplative Studies, comparative or otherwise. Particularly we are looking for panels and papers on:

  • Epistemologies for Contemplative Studies
  • Cross-cultural revisitations of Contemplative Studies as a perennialist project
  • Conceptions of the subtle body within praxis
  • Ethnographic conceptions
  • Micro-phenomenology
  • Contemplative praxis and research in relation to information, AI, and its ramifications with ChatGPT
  • Psychedelic substances and spirit medicines in relation to contemplative practices and the neuropsychology of altered brain states for a co-sponsored session with the Cognitive Science of Religion and the Indigenous Religious Traditions Units
  • Individual papers that can not find a home in these currently listed panels

Chairs

  • Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
  • Michael Sheehy, University of Virginia

Steering Committee Members

  • Yuria Celidwen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Larson Di Fiori, Brown University
  • John Dunne, University of Wisconsin
  • Muhammad Faruque, University of Cincinnati
  • Jacob Sherman, California Institute of Integral Studies
  • Devin Zuckerman, University of Virginia

Deadline for submissions is Friday, March 8th at 5pm EST.
For more information on submissions, visit the AAR website.