On March 4th and 5th, 2022, the R&SAP hosted an international conference at University of California-Riverside. The conference included academic papers and workshops that addressed how sexual abuse has been represented and reported, how religious doctrine is used to justify abuse, configurations of power within religious communities that erase or decenter survivor experiences, historical perspectives on sexual violence, the intersection of race and gender in sexual violence, institutional structures that enable abuse, and community responses to abuse. The conference provided an arena for discussing methodological and ethical concerns in researching abuse, and a platform for conversations between advocates, artists, scholars, and survivors.

See Conference Program Book CONFERENCE PROGRAM BOOK HERE

See original conference Call for Papers circulated Summer 2021: CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS HERE

For more information, see: www.religionandsexualabuseproject.org or email: religionandsexualabuseproject@gmail.com