On June 23, 2025, the final day of the SAR biennial conference and the first day of a meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, a plenary session inviting scholars from both societies was held to explore intersections of the conferences’ themes of sacred geographies and multispecies interactions. You can find here recordings of the panel presentations, which were followed by this year’s Rappaport lecture.
Prof. Yiren Lin (Taipei National University of the Arts)
Eco-Spirituality in Taiwan: An Indigenous Perspective
Prof. Greg Johnson (Director, Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, & Public Life, UC Santa Barbara)
Sacred Geographies, Institutional Entanglements, and the Ironies of Empire on Mauna Kea & Beyond
Prof. Mayfair Yang (President, Society for the Anthropology of Religion SAR)
Re-Animating & Re-Sacralizing Plants & Trees: Qi and Oxygen in China and Nepal
Roy A. Rappaport Distinguished Keynote Lecture (co-sponsored by SAR, UCSB Capps Center, and ISSRNC)
Prof. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo)
Climate Crises and Postapocalyptic Futures: Visionary Landscapes in Northern Peru