Do forests think? Are animals persons? Should museum objects be treated as subjects? “More-than-human Religion” is a collaborative project based at Florida State University around these sorts of questions. The goal is to foster conversation through the interdisciplinary study of religion between Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and theorizing, on the one hand, with the “material turn” in Anglo-American theory and method on the other hand. Other organizing questions include: What are the resources in Indigenous traditions for understanding materiality and human relationships with nonhuman worlds? How do religious ways of thinking and knowing influence broader social, political, and environmental spheres? You can find out more information at our website: morethanhuman.create.fsu.edu/

Our first keynote is from University of Washington professor Radhika Govindrajan entitled “‘The Two Wives of Masan’: On Haunting, Ritual, and Interspecies Kinship in Himalayan India.” The keynote will take place on April 25th, 5:00pm - 6:30pm, in the Globe Auditorium, 110 S. Woodward Ave., on Florida State University’s campus.

Our second keynote comes from the award-winning author Amitav Ghosh. The talk is entitled “Deadly Simplifications: Imagining the Future in a Warming World.” The keynote will take place on April 26th, 5:00pm – 6:45pm, in the William Johnston Building, Room 2005, 143 Honors Way, on Florida State University’s campus. Registration is required for this event.

Again, please see the website for more details and to register for Amitav Ghosh’s keynote speech: morethanhuman.create.fsu.edu/