Dear Colleagues,


The Dharma Academy of North America (DĀNAM) invites you to consider submitting a proposal for the annual meeting to be held concurrently (November 22-23, 2024) with the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, California.


Navigating Conflict and Chaos: Text, Theory, and Practice

The DĀNAM Steering Committee invites proposals for three separate panels of four papers each on ethics as it relates to order and disorder. The fourth panel will be focused on a book review. Papers are invited to reflect on resources on method and ontology in dharma resources according to the Presidential Theme for the 2024 AAR Annual Meeting, “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Margin.” The content can be from philosophy, theology, psychology, anthropology, mythology, and the arts using forms of textual analysis, and engage with the theme at various levels of being such as material, mental, bodily, social-political, cosmological, and spiritual. Panels may cover:

  • ethical and political dimensions of Hindu epics;

  • psycho-physical, emotional, and experiential dimensions of Jain and Buddhist yoga;

  • and social and anthropological dimensions of Sikh sources.


We welcome complete panel proposals, as well as individual paper proposals for peer review.


Deadline: March 8, 2024 at 11:59 PM (pst)

Format: All in person, face to face 


Please send your proposals and any queries to: